This ain’t Karen Armstrong’s Muhammad, this is the real thing: killing women and children is justified in a hadith in which Muhammad waves away those who object. “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Sahih Muslim 4321)
“Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi: I was among the captives of Banu Qurayza. 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. (Sunan Abu Dawood 38:4390) Pubescent boys were thus killed, whether they had been combatants or not.
“Isis defends killing women and children as terror group loses territory and troops,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, May 6, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Isis has launched an “extremely defensive” propaganda effort to defend its slaughter of women and children as it struggles to retain territory, troops and attention.
The latest edition of the terrorist group’s Rumiyah magazine celebrated bombings that killed at least 45 people marking Palm Sunday at Coptic churches in Egypt.
Hundreds of people attended the victims’ funerals, with Egyptians of all religions uniting to condemn the bloodshed and the government threatening a new crackdown….
Opponents of Isis, including rival terrorist groups, have cited its killing of women and children – particularly Muslims – in indiscriminate terror attacks as proof of their takfir (disbelief).Christians are also afforded protection under sharia as protected “dhimma”, and were required to pay a special tax under caliphates in the Islamic Golden Age.
In an “interview” in Rumiyah, the leader of Isis’s faction in Egypt admitted that the “prevailing trend in many people’s reactions is that of denunciation, as well as disassociation … and of offering condolences”.
But in a lengthy propaganda article, Isis sought to justify its actions by claiming that “belligerent” Christians in Egypt deserve no protection.
It said it was “permissible” to murder all men and take women, children, the elderly and ill as slaves.
“With regards to those of the non-combatant women and children from among the belligerent Christians who are killed unintentionally, their blood is waste,” the article continued.
It claimed that the murder of women and children in indiscriminate terror attacks or bombardment was also allowed, citing Mohamed’s use of catapults in a medieval city siege….
Benedict says
“The Islamic State justifies killing women and children by invoking Muhammad’s example.” –
What’s all the fuss about? The Christians do that all the time according to their canon.
Read 1 Corinthians 13.
duh swami says
Do they shout Jesus saves while doing it? I didn’ know there were any of Mohammad examples in the Bible…
Greyhound Fancier says
I think he’s being sarcastic. I Corinthians 13 is the “love” chapter of that epistle.
Greg says
I just read 1 Cor:13, and it does talk about love, as Dave says. It is a teaching about love from Paul, it is not a canon about killing as Benedict says above.
kadok says
He can not explain his comment in any way that will make sense, or be fact or be in any way true.
mortimer says
Benedict should have written (sarc/off). 1 Cor. 13 is the LOVE chapter in the Bible.
The Golden Rule is the basis of Christian morality. In Islam, K.48.29 is the basis of morality: “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar),
Compassionate amongst themselves.”
Marcello Luciano says
the topic is Islamic killing, derailing the topic to another issue logically is called “Red Herring” fallacy ,that turns any logical argument to a piece garbage.
Rob says
Are you referring to this?
“His winnowing shovel is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with a fire that never goes out.” 1Corinthians, 13:17
Any fool can comprehend that Jesus is speaking about the final judgement of man and NOT posing a threat of violence to the living.
It never fails to amaze me how people like you try to justify the violence in Islam’s religious texts by twisting the words of Jesus.
abad says
Muhammad’s only love for children was of a paedophilia nature.
He also hated women, and regularly had sex with goats.
Muhammad, the poster boy for sexual perversion in Islam.
DrBukk says
Can someone quote the text about sex with domesticated animals being OK in Islam? With goats, would that allow just nanniesr but not billies? Another question is donkeys, are there strictures that allow conjugation with jennies but not jackasses? Which sex of sheep are allowed to be stump-broke, or is it both? Finally curiosity compels me to ask how it is done with camels?
John Hawk says
There is nothing admirable about the Islamic State, but this much can be said: They are honest about their intentions, and the most devoted of all Muslims. If you want to see The Qur’an and other Islamic texts in practice, look no further than the Islamic State. What’s perplexing is that as these true Muslims get hammered in Iraq and Syria, many want to return to Europe from whence they came — and Europe seems willing to accept them. Truly, there is no cure for stupidity.
Michael says
I think Islam is all-encompassing when it comes to any violence. Anything is okay, as long as ‘Allah’ is uttered before during and after doing it.
Nothing is ‘sacred’ in Islam except death. And, of course, ‘honor.’ The ‘honor’ of the ‘honorable’ men who assault, mutilate, torture, and murder whomever they want.
As long as it’s for Allah, anything — literally anything — goes. This seems in perfect keeping with their history and genocides in past centuries.