The Heart's Witness Against Muhammad: The Stain of Genocide

11/15/2012

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rendering the Meccan cavalry useless--the Meccans departed. The threat of the Meccans gone, Muhammad turned his sights against the Banu Quraysh. We shall let Muhammad's wife 'A'isha speak to us through the hadith in Sahih Bukhari 4.52.68.

"Narrated 'Aisha: When Allah's Apostle returned on the day (of the battle) of Al-Khandaq (i.e. Trench), he put down his arms and took a bath. Then [the angel] Gabriel whose head was covered with dust, came to him saying, 'You have put down your arms! By Allah, I have not put down my arms yet.' Allah's Apostle said, 'Where (to go now)?' Gabriel said, 'This way,' pointing towards the tribe of Banu Quraiza. So Allah's Apostle went out towards them."

Muhammad subjected the Banu Qurayza to a lengthy siege. Eventually they capitulated, surrendering to Muhammad's forces. Their possessions and their women were seized by the Muslims and divided among them, and Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh (a Muslim convert from the Jews) was appointed the arbitrator to pronounce the judgment in the "war trial" against the Banu Qurayza. It was, of course, a farce.

It was Sa'ad's sentence to behead all the men and enslave the women and children, a decision confirmed by Muhammad as consonant with Allah's will. Ibn Ishaq, one of the earliest of the Muslim historians, relates how the men were marched out to the market, trenches were dug, and then their heads were lopped off. According to Ibn Ishaq, somewhere around 600 to perhaps as many as 900 Jewish men were decapitated, Muhammad personally participating in at least one such decapitation, a man named Huyayy. Somewhere close to Medina, underneath Saudi Arabian sands, there is a mass grave with about 800 Jewish skeletons in it with about 800 skulls nearby, silent witnesses to Muhammad's inhumanity.

A hadith in the Sunan Abu Dawud by an eye-witness, a survivor, tells us how the men were distinguished from the boys. Where there was a question, the boys were made to pull down their trousers, and those with pubic hair were killed. Those without were spared. Abu Dawud, 38.4390:

"Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi: 'I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.'"

One woman was killed with the hundreds of her masculine compatriots. The poor woman had lost her mind, and was laughing uncontrollably at the horribleness of the whole thing, something the young 'A'isha, Muhammad's child wife, would never forget. So relates one hadith in the Sunan Abu Dawud 14.2665:

"Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: 'No woman of Banu Qurayzah was killed except one. She was with me, talking and laughing on her back and belly (extremely), while the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) was killing her people with the swords. Suddenly a man called her name: 'Where is so-and-so?' She said 'I.' I asked: 'What is the matter with you?' She said: 'I did a new act.' The man took her and beheaded her. She said: I will not forget that she was laughing extremely although she knew that she would be killed."

Genocide. Pure and simple. And each young Muslim child at his madrasah, when he recites the Al-Ahzan surah in his Qur'an, recalls the glory days of the siege of the Abu Qarayza, and the beheading of the 800 or so Jews at the order of their beloved Muhammad, the hasua hasana, the "good example," as they read in the surah Al-Ahzab, ayah 21, immediately before the Qur'anic description of this genocide of Jews in ayats 26 and 27:

"And those of the people of the Scripture [the Jewish Banu Qurayza] who backed them (the disbelievers) [the Quraysh from Mecca] Allah brought them down from their forts and cast terror into their hearts, (so that) a group (of them) you killed [the men and pubescent boys and one woman], and a group (of them) [the women and prepubescent boys] you made captives.

And He caused you to inherit their lands, and their houses, and their riches, and a land which you had not trodden (before). And Allah is Able to do all things."

(Qur'an (Al-Ahzab) 33:26-27)

So they celebrate the beheading of around 800 Jews as a prodigy of Allah and act of human perfection by the perfect, universal man, al-insan al-kammil, Muhammad, the good example of all Muslim males.

From the very beginning, something is rotten in the State of Islam. And Muslims cannot cover it up with that mantra, as if it were a cover and excuse for all kind and manner of sins, that Allah and his messenger know best, the natural law notwithstanding. The natural law is being suppressed here, but we hope that its witness in the Muslim's heart is not altogether extinguished, and there has to be a part in every Muslim that knows that something was wrong in the heart of Muhammad and in his claimed revelation.

(This article is adapted from the book written by the author entitled, The Heart's Witness Against Muhammad: Why the Natural Law Proves Muhammad False.)

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Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at agreenwell@harris-greenwell.com.
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Keywords: Muhammad, murder, fifth commandment, Abu Qurayza, genocide, Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq.

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Brian
5 months ago
@KarlVDH: We don't hold up the men responsible for those actions as perfect, we even squashed the efforts of some to canonize Columbus for that very reason, actually. A perfect man does not commit genocide, seems like a simple point to me, Mohammad was not a perfect man, Cortes was not a perfect man, Columbus was not a perfect man (not even a man of heroic virtue as saints aren't required 'perfection'); the only one of those three examples that anyone anywhere believes to have been perfect is Mohammad. The point of this argument is to dispel that belief.
Paul-Emile Leray
6 months ago
Andrew, you are a wonderful writer and educator. Very informative. Thank you. I have a few points and while they might seem a little disconnected to some, in reality, they are not. I urge readers to read Deacon Keith Fournier's articles. Also, Andrew Greenwell's. Notice how many in society today attack many of us as being single issue voters. In reality, these people are partially insane because they need to compartmentalize so many things inside themselves. What I am getting at is the following. There are many who are anti-war and yet pro-choice. There are many who are pro-life (in the sense of anti-abortion) and yet almost seem to be pro-war. There are logical contradictions and oxymorons all over the place. I am going somewhere with all of this. Please keep reading. There are Catholics who are at times defaming me and trying to silence me accusing me of being too narrow in my politics; when, in reality, it is them who do not fall under what Andrew Greenwell wrote about 'faith and reason' and how reason splits into 'ratio' and 'intellectus'. (I loved that article) Here is where I am going, in part, with this. I hope, Andrew, that as your writings continue some articles will follow as to how all this affects logical consequential outflows in the realms of politics and economics as well, including political and judiciary systems. Between Keith Fournier and you, Andrew, I sense from 1000s of miles away, that you are capable of this. Another point: I was naive, perhaps, in placing too much expectation coming from certain religious leaders to address some of these issues. Why? Many are simply too busy, it seems, with their daily duties and parishes. They are so busy worrying about social justice issues and how to provide meals to people in parks (many who are there by choice, since I attended some food drives myself and one guy has an apartment but decided to live in the park after his retirement as CEO of a company!) or beggars (some who jump in taxis after rolling up their mats after a good day of work in the begging world, who beg with alcohol on their breath and so they have money for booze); that many seem simply too busy (understandable) to address some of these issues and follow through on them with more rigor and zeal. In other words, the priests don't have all the answers as I naively expected some would. And if they do, they might not have the time or energy given they are loaded down as it is. Therefore? The parishioners need to help them. We need to pick up the slack. The priests are wonderful, but they are not magic men either. They are human. They get tired. Many of us need to help them more. Andrew, a donkey gets loaded with tall expectations because he is strong and the others can't carry the load. (I've been told that many times as my knees were buckled to the point of barely being able to walk I was so tired). I would like to see you and Keith Fournier blend some of your articles together in the future. I am looking very far into the future. All this business of world peace and harmony, unity, is up to the Catholic Church to solve and "we are the Church" in the words of one Jesuit. (not only the priests, "us" too) A tall request, but in writing I am simply expressing a wish and please take it as a huge compliment because it is an explicit acknowledgement of what I think about Keith Fournier's and your writings. EXCELLENT! (and very interesting, informative)
Paul-Emile Leray
Andrew M. Greenwell
6 months ago
Sadly, KarlVDH seems wed to the tu quoque fallacy, and misses the whole point of this series. If "x" is true, it does not matter whether Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde says it. Similarly, we can talk about the New World in the 1500s, or about a whole host of other things, all we want and it doesn't make a whit of difference about what happened in Arabia in the 600s as a result of the doings of a supposed "perfect human." Patrick has seized the point.
Claire
6 months ago
KarlVDH, the trouble with your argument is that the Church today does not celebrate the murders that took place by some soldiers in the past. We celebrate Christ, who taught peace and service to others - washing the feet of his disciples. As pointed out in the article, the Muslims continue to chant praise for the victory of the past.... You can't compare apples to oranges.
Patrick Reynolds
6 months ago
@KarlVDH

There is an extreme difference between what is written about in the article, and what happened in the incidents you are referring to.

With the Central American civilizations, they were wiped out by a combination of plague and conquest by Spanish Conquistadors, toughly 1500 years after the death of Christ. These were purely human entities who made grievous and regrettable mistakes. While what happened it truly unfortunate, you cannot claim that Jesus is responsible for these killings.

With the incident written about in this article, not only did Mohammad give his direct approval of the slaughter, he took part in it; and afterwards enslaved the woman and children. The supposed "perfect man" of Islam was genocidal; you can make no such claim against Christ, who wouldn't even harm another in self-defense. That is precisely why these articles are aimed at what Mohammad did, because by careful examination of the his life, we find that he is anything but a perfect man because he rejects natural law. Since he is not the perfect man, the false religion of Islam is foundation-less and doomed to crumble.

As an additional note, the paganism of the Central American civilizations had very little to do with why they were wiped out. The Conquistadors brought monks with them, and the aim of those monks was conversion, not extinction. They were wiped out for the same reason most civilizations in human history were destroyed, good old-fashioned human greed.
Jorge
6 months ago
This explains why muslims today simultaneously bragg themselves of mass-murdering their "enemies", while at the same time denying any wrongdoing, because the taqyya (islamic art and tactic of deception) can and is openly used(by moderates and radicals alike) in the global jihad against the "house of war, ie, all the non-muslim countries, their people, institutions, religions, philosopies,languages,art, identities and cultural heritages..features and centire brillinat advanced civilizations that islam seeks to exterminate at all cost.
KarlVDH
6 months ago
...we're going to accuse Islam of genocide?
Perhaps we should have some Aztecs chime in... No? Incas or Mayans then. Oh...

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