The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead (19 page)

To show how deeply Allah was committed to this assault, Mohammed said that God had promised to augment the Moslem forces with a troop of armed angels.
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Harnessing the restlessness of soldiers who’d been bored by a long and nearly eventless siege, Mohammed ordered his troops to gather together again and to stride off on a fast march
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with no time out even for the obligatory afternoon Moslem prayer session.
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In addition, say the Hadith, the dust rose in the streets of Medina as “Gabriel’s regiment,” the promised regiment of killer angels, marched through.
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When the combined force of men and angels approached the fortifications of the Jewish village, the angel Gabriel rode out ahead of the vanguard, still on his “white mule with a brocade covered saddle …to shake their fortresses and cast terror into their lives.”
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(There’s that word “terror” again.)

Then came Mohammed’s turn. As Ishaq puts it, “The Messenger approached the Jews and said, ‘You brothers of monkeys, has God disgraced you and brought his vengeance upon you?’ They replied, Oh …[Mohammed], you are not a barbarous person.’”
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Mohammed did his best to prove the Jews wrong. He opened a 25-day siege
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of the Banu Quraiza’s village.

This is where conformity-enforcement comes in handy. It’s difficult to outlast an enemy in a siege. It’s tough when you’re surrounded and the enemy is separated from you by a ditch. It’s even tougher when you’re surrounding someone else, when you’re separated by walls, and when the open landscape constantly tempts your forces to give up and go home. Poorly disciplined troops, troops that haven’t been conformity enforced five times a day, are likely to cut and run. But Mohammed’s warriors, schooled in absolute submission (“Islam”), absolute obedience, and coordinated effort, were prepped for lengthy military struggles by their dictatorial belief system. They could outlast those they chose to attack.

Outlasting the Jews worked wonders. Says Ibn Ishaq, “God cast terror into their hearts. …They felt sure that the apostle would not leave them until he had made an end of them.”
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After a night in which the women and children wept
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from dusk until daylight, the Jews decided to “surrender to the apostle’s judgement”
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and threw themselves on Mohammed’s mercy. A tribe of Moslems with close ties to the Jews asked Mohammed to do what he had done for other Jewish tribes—spare the Jews’ lives and settle for a simple ethnic cleansing.
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This seemed logical for a Prophet who insisted that he spoke in the name of “Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate”.
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But this is not h
ow Mohammed, the paragon of Islamic “clemency, love and kindness”,
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handled the lives that Allah had placed in his hands. According to one Islamic biographer, Mohammed had concluded before the war even began that, “The Banu Qurayzah…must be completely destroyed.”
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The result was what Ibn Ishaq calls a "massacre."
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Explains the eighth-century biographer:

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They [the Jews of the Banu Quraiza] surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina…. Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. …There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900. As they were being taken out in batches to the apostle they asked [their leader]…what he thought would be done with them. He replied, ‘Will you never understand? Don’t you see that the summoner never stops and those who are taken do not return? By Allah, it is death!’ This went on until the apostle made an end of them.”
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Worry not. Mohammed did not soil his hands with the neck slicing. “He sat down,” says al-Tabari, “and Ali and al-Zubayr began cutting off their heads in his presence.”
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Some of the wives, mothers, and sisters of these captives apparently were forced to watch the head-chopping. Says Mohammed’s favorite wife, Aisha, “Only one of their women was killed. She was actually with me and was talking with me and laughing immoderately as the apostle was killing her men in the market when suddenly an unseen voice called her name. ‘Good heavens,’ I cried, ‘what is the matter?’ ‘I am to be killed,’ she replied. …She was taken away and beheaded. …I shall never forget my wonder at her good spirits and her loud laughter when all the time she knew that she would be killed.”
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Then, says Ibn Ishaq, came the goodies. Mohammed “was a very sea of generosity to us.”
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“The Prophet divided the wealth, wives, and children of the Banu Qurayza [Jews] among the Muslims.”
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Boasted one of the Moslem warriors who partook of the spoils:

War has left to us

The best gift of our bounteous Lord;

High white forts and resting places for camels where

Palms are black and milk is plentiful.

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And horses swift as wolves…

Now guarding the tribesman’s cattle,

Now slaying the enemy and returning with the spoil
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No wonder, the Qur’an calls the mass murder of the Banu Quraiza and its aftermath the epitome of Allah’s generosity, “His kindness to” the Muslims.
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“With Allah are profits and spoils abundant”
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indeed.

What’s more, one of the Moslem warriors bragged something very new in his rap-like poetry after the defeat of the Banu Qurayza Jews,

We have a prophet, a true helper,

By whom we can conquer all men.
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Two decades later, those words would take on more meaning than the man who uttered them could possibly have imagined.

The tale of the victory over the Banu Qurayza told by the Hadith and by the Moslem biographers rapidly turns sexual: “The Messenger of God selected for himself from” the women of the slaughtered Jews a choice beauty,
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“Rayhanah…and she remained his concubine” for the rest of his life.
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The rest of the captured women and children were given out as slaves to the others who had “fought in the way of Allah”.

This was one of many victories in which Allah saved his best sex prizes for Mohammed,
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a man with strong carnal appetites. Mohammed coupled with women of all ages, but the holy books of Islam, the Hadith, explain that he had a special “liking for the virgins and for fondling them”
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and for “a young girl so that you might play with her and she with you.”
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Allah was extraordinarily open-handed in the sexual gifts he showered on Mohammed,

O prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts who migrated (from Mecca) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her this only for thee and not for the Believers (at large).
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Note the phrase “those whom thy right hand possesses.” Possessing “captives” with the “right hand” is a code-phrase for rape or sex by-any-means possible.
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Since every child begotten by sex imposed on a sexual plaything, a “slave girl”, must be raised knowing the truth of Islam, this form of sexual abuse was considered a legitimate way to spread the truth of Allah.
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As modern Islamic historian Ali Mazrui puts it, Islam’s “culture of procreation…[is] a strategy for 'multiplying in the name of Allah'. Procreation itself,” he says, “can be counted as a form of jihad.”
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Adds Mazrui, “The Muslim ummah (global community of Muslims) is allowed to expand by divine intervention and biological impregnation.”
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In other words, forced sex is a legitimate way to spread a picture of the invisible world, to spread a weave of memes.