hi everyone and welcome this is the
apostate prophet
muslim apologists always tell us how
great of a person mohammed was
he was so merciful so good although
islamic sources tell us the opposite
like that muhammad ordered the killing
of everyone who left islam
that he promised to fight those who do
not believe in islam and to get rid of
all those who cause any problems within
the religion but today
i want to go back in history with you
and take you to one of the most
controversial issues
in the genocidal prophet muhammad's life
the banuchariza massacre
the banuchariza were a tribe of jews who
lived in what is now known as medina
back then it was called yathreep for
better understanding i will simply refer
to it as medina in order to understand
the binocularizer massacre better
let's get some context on the background
medina was already inhabited by jews
long before muhammad arrived
we know that jews came to medina as a
superior culture
they established economic stability in
the arab regions they came to
and were dominant until other arab
tribes arrived and secured political
dominance over jews
but at some point the arab tribes of
medina fell into a large
conflict and that conflict destroyed the
political stability of medina
mohammed's home was mecca but in the
620s
after muhammad tried preaching his
religion in mecca and the population
rejected it firmly
scared of being killed by angry locals
mohammed looked for a new home
and found it in medina first some of his
followers spread islam in medina
then his followers settled there and
afterwards muhammad migrated to medina
the medinan-arab tribes were interested
in muhammad settling in medina
because they had large conflicts and
believed muhammad with his new message
could end those conflicts he could
secure the controlling of
jews and make medina stronger stronger
than mecca
they were right muhammad was brought to
medina as leader by the arabs
not by the uninvolved jews but when
muhammad arrived in mecca
in order to end the conflicts and secure
political unity
muhammad made a constitution for medina
that constitution
ensured that all people in medina help
each other and the constitution also
mentioned the jews in the city
he intended with this constitution to
collect the people of medina
and to ensure that despite their
religious differences
everyone is one and has to defend the
city of medina
we don't find any credible source on
whether the jews agreed to that
but historians mostly find that the
three greater jewish tribes
kuraise nadir and kainuka never agreed
to this treaty
but were listed as client tribes instead
some historians think they were given a
separate agreement at a later time
that was similar or identical to
relevant parts of the constitution
but things were initially peaceful in
this proclamation
one thing was clear the jews in medina
were to help the muslims in case of a
fight
with the polytheist meccans jews were
not allowed to help besieging
polytheists
and were not allowed to take them into
the city meanwhile muhammad tried to
spread
islam further and invite the jews to
islam as well since with his
monotheistic message monotheistic
compared to the polytheists he hoped
especially for the support of jews and
christians
but jews largely rejected muhammad and
islam
and so did the jews of medina who
considered islam a rip-off of their
religion and their culture
initially mohammed wanted to ensure
religious freedom and unity for everyone
until the jews strictly rejected him but
further on
things didn't go very well in the
following five years
from 622 to 627 the jewish tribes of
medina
completely disappeared not voluntarily
of course
first the banu kanuka tribe was expelled
then the banu nadir
according to islamic reports the
banukanuka tribe was expelled
because the jews harassed a muslim woman
then a muslim killed the harassing jew
then the muslim was killed by the jews
then the jews killed the muslim
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and this conflict went on until muhammad
declared war on the banukanuka tribe
muhammad defeated them and wanted to
exterminate them but immediate arab
chief who liked the canoga tribe
begged muhammad to let them live and
didn't understand muhammad's fury
so muhammad expelled them instead this
is an important point
when muslim apologists talk about the
banuchariza massacre
they point out correctly that mohammed
didn't exterminate
the first two jewish tribes but only
expelled them but islamic sources
themselves
say that muhammad did want to massacre
those jews but someone else was more
reasonable than muhammad
and prevented this massacre by begging
about the banana dear tribe it gets even
weirder
according to reports mohammed had to pay
blood money in a conflict that happened
recently and he needed funds from the
banu nadir tribe as well
and the banu nadir initially agreed to
that but muhammad apparently received
divine inspiration that the banunadir
tribe wanted to assassinate him instead
so he approached them asked them to
leave the city
and when they refused muhammad attacked
them and eventually defeated and
expelled them
many historians especially orientalists
think that the reason behind these
expulsions was different
because the islamic sources are very
vague and don't give us anything of
value
the jews were merchants and had
therefore relations with many other
towns and tribes
and they were critical of islam and
mostly collectively rejected muhammad
and made that publicly clear according
to many historians
this is why muhammad actively looked for
reasons to get rid of these jews
another interesting point is that
according to ibn ishaq's biography of
muhammad
he wanted to massacre both of these
tribes and in both cases
it was prevented by human or divine
intervention
we see here that massacre was the first
option for muhammad
he just loved it i guess but there was
one tribe left
the bonucci riser who remained neutral
during all these conflicts