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They messed up my visit I was only allowed 2 hours of 4 and part of that in the security check delay. Heart breaking, emotionally traumatising visit, one meant to bring her out ended im leaving her back. #ThisTimeFreeAafia
She Thanks you all.
You should be ashamed of yourself!
Do you want to be remembered as a hate-mongering pseudo-academic?
Would you take one of your students seriously if they cited (and misread!) a Wikipedia article?
Let me unpack your nonsense for you:
1. Banu Qurayza were one of many tribes. Not all of the tribes were killed.
2. It was not a massacre. It was a legal punishment due to their treachery and war crime. They wanted to annihilate the Medinan community. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ had an agreement of protection with the Jews of Medina and both parties were bound to support each other in war (see below the Treaty of Medina; point 4). It was also stipulated in the treaty that if anyone from among them commits an outrage or is guilty of a crime, he shall deserve the relevant punishment for their crime. Banu Qurayza not only betrayed the Muslims during the battle of the Ditch, they almost annihilated the Prophet ﷺ with his followers. The punishment was inflicted on their men of fighting age due this treachery, which they agreed to by being a party to the treaty. Other Jewish tribes (mentioned in the treaty below; point 4) were not touched and flourished in Medina.
3. The key point is: They were not killed because they were Jewish. This is a shameful omission from you!
4. Jews were treated fairly and compassionately. For example see the treaty of Medina, articulated by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ himself:
"It is incumbent on all the Muslims to help and extend sympathetic treatment to the Jews who have entered into an agreement with us. Neither an oppression of any type should be perpetrated on them nor should their enemy be helped against them.
... Excepting the religious matters, the Muslims and the Jews shall be regarded as belonging to a single party. If anyone from among them commits an outrage or breaks promise or is guilty of a crime, he shall deserve punishment of his crime."¹
5. It is well-known that Jews were generally welcomed and lived in peace and justice under Islamic rule, for example:
Benjamin of Tudela, a Spanish Jew who travelled to Baghdad in 1168, described the situation of the Iraqi Jewry in these words:
"In Baghdad there are about forty thousand Jews, and they dwell in security, prosperity, and honour under the great Caliph [al-Mustanjid, 1160-70 CE], and amongst them are great sages, the Heads of the Academies engaged in the study of the Law…"²
There is more to say about this, however this should suffice. If you need further information or clarity please do not hesitate to reach out.
¹ Ibn Hisham, as-Sira an-Nabawiyya, Cairo, 1955, v 1, pp. 501-4.
² Benjamin of Tudela, The Jew in the Medieval World, a source book edited by Jacob R. Marcus, New York, 1972, p. 185.
A new Amnesty investigation has found that the Israeli army indiscriminately, and therefore unlawfully, used white phosphorous in an attack on Dhayra in south Lebanon on 16 October.
The attack must be investigated as a war crime.
🇮🇱 ISRAELI TERRORISTS recorded themselves dragging a dead Palestinian body by a rope on their car.
🚨 Israel Channel 14 has since DELETED the horrific video!
Gaza tonight.
When the skies are lit with terror. Never forget the “civilized nations” that claim to be “peacemakers” governed by “international law” that manufactured this genocide.
Shame.
Terror of a new level. Every phone line is now cut in Gaza. Not a single person can be reached.
This as Israel drops it’s heaviest bombs yet and threatens to bomb the largest hospital there.
Praying for the people of Gaza, and against all of those complicit in their genocide.
Gaza is under intense bombing.
Telecommunications have been cut.
We can't get through to our family who have been trapped in this war zone for almost 3 weeks.
We can only pray they survive the night.
How many more children have to die before the world says enough?
So the guy who made a movie about a guy who made the bomb that mercilessly murdered hundreds of thousands civilians supports mercilessly bombing hundreds of thousands of civilians in real life.
Clearly all you “I stand with Israel” folks are on the right side of history.