Muhammad’s order to “kill any Jew that comes under your power”
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Allah was not happy with Jehoba
The Holy Prophet was building his community (ecclesia) based on revelation received from divine Allah.
As long as the Prophet was in Mecca, he was compromising in nature, he was eager to negotiate with his fellow Jews (The Prophet was from a Jewish family, and his childhood religion was Jewish, Jehoba’s Arabic name was Allah). In his Medina campaign, he modified his diplomacy in connection with his fellow Jewish people, who once welcomed him, and sheltered him in Medina city-state.
Prophet’s intolerant political ideology was visible.
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His economic consolidation started with attacking Jewish settlements.
Muhammad’s religion was commanded by Allah.
Muhammad’s economy was guided by Allah.
Muhammad’s revenge was enlightened by Allah.
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Gradually the Medina was sanitised from Jews. One can smell antisemitism and Nazism right from here. One community/ nation can be annihilated due to non-observance or following one particular newly founded way.
What is religion? My religion and your religion! Legion (brigade/Lashkar) with sword and neverending searching of the enemy.
In “The Life of Muhammad” by Ibn Ishaq on page 752.
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Abu ‘Ubayda told me on the authority of Abu ‘Amr, the Medinan, when the apostle got the better of the B. Qurayza he seized about four hundred men from the Jews who had been allies of Aus against Khazraj, and ordered that they should be beheaded. Accordingly, Khazraj began to cut off their heads with great satisfaction.
The apostle saw that the faces of Khazraj showed their pleasure, but there was no such indication on the part of Aus, and he suspected that that was because of the alliance that had existed between them and the B. Qurayza. When there were only twelve of them left he gave them over to Aus, assigning one Jew to every two of Aus, saying, ‘Let so-and-so strike him and so-and-so finish him off.’ One of those who was so handed over to them was Ka’b b. Yahudha, who was an important man among them. He gave him to Muhayyisa and Abu Burda b. Niyar (it was Abu Burda to whom the apostle had permitted to sacrifice a young goat on the feast of Adha).
He said, ‘Let Muhayyisa strike him and Abu Burda finish him off.’ So Muhayyisa fetched him a blow, which did not cut in properly, and Abu Burda dispatched him and gave him the finishing stroke. Huwayyisa, who was still an unbeliever, said to his brother, Muhayyisa, ‘Did you kill Ka’b b. Yahudha?’, and when he said he did, he said, ‘By God, much of the flesh on your belly comes from his wealth; you are a miserable fellow, Muhayyisa.’ He replied, ‘If the one who ordered me to kill him had ordered me to kill you, I would have done so.’ He was amazed at this remark and went away astounded. They say that he used to wake up in the night astonished at his brother’s words, until in the morning he said, ‘By God, this is indeed a religion.’ Then he came to the prophet and accepted Islam. Muhayyisa then spoke the lines which we have written above.
This story is also supported in the Sunna of Abu Dawud, Book 19, Number 2996:
Narrated Muhayyisah: The Prophet of Allah said: If you gain a victory over the men of Jews, kill them. So Muhayyisah jumped over Shubaybah, a man of the Jewish merchants. He had close relations with them. He then killed him. At that time Huwayyisah (brother of Muhayyisah) had not embraced Islam. He was older than Muhayyisah. When he killed him, Huwayyisah beat him and said: O enemy of Allah, I swear by Allah, you have a good deal of fat in your belly from his property.
In the Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, (Book of the Major Classes) by Ibn Sa’d, Volume 2, [4], page 32:
Then occurred the “Sariyyah” [raid] of Salim Ibn Umayr al-Amri against Abu Afak, the Jew, in [the month of] Shawwal in the beginning of the twentieth month from the hijrah [immigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD], of the Apostle of Allah. Abu Afak, was from Banu Amr Ibn Awf, and was an old man who had attained the age of one hundred and twenty years. He was a Jew and used to instigate the people against the Apostle of Allah, and composed (satirical) verses [about Muhammad]. Salim Ibn Umayr who was one of the great weepers and who had participated in Badr, said, “I take a vow that I shall either kill Abu Afak or die before him. He waited for an opportunity until a hot night came, and Abu Afak slept in an open place. Salim Ibn Umayr knew it, so he placed the sword on his liver and pressed it till it reached his bed. The enemy of Allah screamed and the people who were his followers rushed to him, took him to his house and interred him.