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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (18383)	12/10/2002 8:32:06 PM
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The First Holocaust against the Jews By Chuck Morse The first Holocaust against the Jews was not Hitler's but rather one carried out by Islamic generals. This earlier Holocaust, occurring over 1,000 years ago, is nevertheless acutely relevant today given the fact that a genocidal program against Israel is presently being carried out by Islamic terrorists. An examination of the historic Islamic Holocaust against the Jews sheds light on the nature of today's threat. Christian writers chronicled the pre-Islamic Kingdom of Himyar (the Biblical Sheba), located along the Arabian Red Sea where "Conversion to Judaism of influential circles" was popular and Jews prospered. Before Islam, Judea was a Byzantine Christian province and a center of Jewish life, Tiberius serving as a significant Jewish city. Babylonia was also a great center of Jewish learning and commerce. In the Kingdom of Himyar, according to Christian writers, "Jewish priests (presumably rabbis) from Tiberius ... formed part the suite of King Du Noas and served as his envoys in negotiations with Christian cities." Jewish tribes were scattered across Arabia and the city of Yathrib, later renamed Medina, was a major Jewish city. In "Arabs in History" Bernard Lewis writes: Jewish tribes from the north, especially the Banu Nadir and Banu Quraiza, some 280 miles north of Mecca, had originally settled the city of Medina. The comparative richness of the town attracted an infiltration of pagan Arabs who came at first as clients of the Jews and ultimately succeeded in dominating themthe town was torn by the feuds of the rival Arab tribes of Aus and Khazraj, with the Jews maintaining an uneasy balance of power. The latter, engaged mainly in agriculture and handicrafts, were economically and culturally superior to the Arabs, and were consequently disliked.... as soon as the Arabs had attained unity through the agency of Muhammad they attacked and ultimately eliminated the Jews. In "The Traditions of Islam" Alfred Guillaume writes of the demise of the Jews of Arabia: At the dawn of Islam the Jews dominated the economic life of the Hijaz [Arabia]. They held all the best land... at Medina they must have formed at least half of the population. There was also a Jewish settlement to the north of the Gulf of Aqaba....Jewish prosperity was a challenge to the Arabs, particularly the Quraysh at Mecca and ... at Medina. Besides being a religious Prophet, Muhammad was also a brilliant military leader who completely conquered and subdued the Arabian Peninsula. In the process he pillaged Jewish wealth and land as a means of raising revenue. Theft and land expropriation became official policy as did mass expulsions, extortion, forced conversion, the murder of Jews in Medina and elsewhere and a mass slaughter of the Jews of Khaibar. Guilliame writes: They had irritated him (Muhammad) by their refusal to recognize him as a prophet.... The existence of pockets of disaffected Jews in and around his base was a cause of uneasiness and they had to be eliminated if he [Muhammad] was to wage war without anxiety. As Muhammad moved toward military ascendancy in Arabia, the situation for Jews grew more precarious. Guilliame writes: A tribe of Jews in the neighborhood of Medina fell under suspicion of treachery and was forced to lay down their arms and evacuate their settlements. Valuable land and much booty fell into the hands of the Muslims. The neighboring tribe of Qurayza, who were soon to suffer annihilation, made no move to help their co-religionists, and their allies, the Aus, were afraid to give them active support. Muhammad was precise in his genocidal program when he declared, ""Two religions may not dwell together on the Arabian Peninsula."(Muwatta, in Al-Zurkani's commentary IV, p. 71) Muhammad's generals and successors, Abu Bakr and Omar, exterminated the entire Jewish population of northern Arabia along with the Jewish refuge of Khaibar. Arabia has been Judenrein ever since. The Koran, Surah 33, places the imprimatur of Allah on the Arabian Holocaust: ... Some you slew and others you took captive. He (Allah] made you masters of their [the Jews'] land, their houses and their goods, and of yet another land [Khaibar] on which you had never set foot before. Truly, Allah has power over all things. Bernard Lewis observed that after the destruction of Khaibar, the Muslims developed a policy regarding Jewish survivors of the slaughter. The status of dhimmi or second class citizenship was established. Dhimmi status would eventually extend to Christians as well along with all non-Muslims living in any country that had submitted to Islam. The Khaibar survivors were, among other degradations, forced to pay a 50 percent yearly tribute in exchange for their lives. Another Islamic Holocaust against the Jews, may G-d forbid, appears to be in the offing at this time. Numerous Islamic texts specifically sanction such a Holocaust against the Jews and these texts are being studied and literally followed by countless numbers of true believers. The world failed to take notice when Hitler published Mein Kampf. G-d willing, the same colossal mistake won't be made again. chuckmorse.com