correcting the mistake our brother,
this article is taken from my friend, and still in correction mode, but article is good, as our friend shown the jihad of moses(as),
Allaah will award our friend ameen, ameen, ameen,
http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/03/warrior-prophet-moses-or-muhammad/comment-page-6/#comment-150195
Moses and Muhammad fought for Islam,
Moses was our prophet,
present jews and christian obey to shaitan, they do not have any prophet right now.
shaitan still alive, shaitan is their prophet and god
so both are the prophet of Islam, both are our prophet,
the present jews and christian are not the follower of prophet, so they do not have any prophet,
present jews and christian obey to shaitan, they are the follower of shaitan,
so pls brother when using the word, pls use the correct word,
Warrior Prophet: Moses and Muhammad?
Posted on 06 March 2011 by Danios
This article is part 1 of LoonWatch’s Understanding Jihad Series.
Moses–the prophet of Islam and one of the principal figure of ISLAM,
According to the Bible, a Jewish family prophet by the name of Moses(as) arose
in Egypt.
Moses liberated muslim from bondage, and together they fled
Egypt to the “promised land.” The promised land was a place called
Canaan (Palestine). This journey from Egypt to Canaan was known as the
Exodus.
It might help to glance at a map:
So the Hebrews fled Egypt and traveled to Canaan.
But they hit a small snag. There were already people living in
Canaan. These natives are referred to in the Bible as “The Seven
Nations.” (Not to be a stickler, but there were actually more than
seven nations.) Here is what the tribes looked like before the
Israelites arrived:
To resolve this dilemma, God ordered the Israelites to exterminate
all the inhabitants of Canaan (men, women, and children) and to take
their land.
The God of the Bible commanded Moses and his followers:
Deuteronomy 20:17 You
must utterly destroy the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites, and Jebusites, just as the LORD your God has commanded you.
The God of the Bible threatened the people of Palestine/Canaan with catastrophe (nakba):
Exodus 15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestine.
15: 15 Then, the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the might men of Moab, trembling shall take hold on them, all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
15:16 Terror and dread shall fall on them;
by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till
your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have
purchased.
15:17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance.
In other words, God “purchased” the land that the natives lived on,
and He would give it as “inheritance” to the Israelite conquerors. It
should be clear that the words “all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt
away” refers to genocide, a point which we will subsequently be made
clearer.
The Aradites were one group of peoples that inhabited Canaan, the
land which the God of Israel had promised the Israelites. The
Israelites marched towards them:
Numbers 33:40 At that
time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of
Canaan, heard that the people of Israel were approaching his land.
One Biblical commentary explains that the Aradite king “heard of the coming of the children of Israel, towards the land of Canaan, in order to possess it, and he came out and fought with them.” The king had some initial success:
21:1 He attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.
Ancient Israel responded with even more brutality than the modern day state of Israel does:
21:2 Then Israel made this vow to the LORD: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities.”
21:3 The LORD heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites; then they utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called Hormah [Utter Destruction].
The word Hormah literally translates to “Ban”, because it means that
there is a ban on all living things. As we shall see, the Israelites
slaughtered men, women, children, cattle, sheep, donkeys, and anything
that breathed. The word “Hormah” is often translated by Biblical
commentators as “Utter Destruction.”
After annihilating the Aradites, Moses and the Israelites then turned
their attention to the Amorites. The God of the Bible commanded the
faithful to conquer the Amorite land of Heshbon:
Deuteronomy 2:24 Then
the LORD said, “Now get moving! Cross the Arnon Gorge. Look, I will hand
over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and I will give you his
land. Attack him and begin to occupy the land.
2:25 This very day I
will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under
heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish
because of you.”
The Israelites requested King Sihon to pass through his land. Sihon
naturally refused, as he had heard reports of what the Israelites had
done to his neighbors. When Sihon refused the request, the order was
given to attack him:
2:30 But Sihon king of
Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made
his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into
your hands, as he has now done.
2:31 The Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
Of course, every nation-state has a right to deny entry of foreigners
into its territory. If, for example, the Iranian army requested
permission to pass through Israel, would Iran have justification to
attack Israel if the request was refused? King Sihon’s denial of the
request is all the more reasonable when we consider that (1) the king
knew that the Israelites were bent on conquering his land, and (2) the
peoples of that region had “hear[d] reports of you [Israelites]” that
made them “tremble and be in anguish.”
In any case, after furnishing themselves with a moral justification
to invade Heshbon, Moses and the Israelites proceeded to kill the king
of Heshbon and all his people:
2:33 The Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army.
2:34 At that time we took all his cities and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.
2:35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.
Multiple cities and their populations were completely annihilated:
2:36 From Aroer on the
rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the city in the gorge, even as far as
Gilead, not one city was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave us all
of them.
King Sihon and his people, the Amorites of Heshbon, were ethnically
cleansed. The Israelites then moved on to King Og and his people, the
Amorites of Bashan. The God of the Bible commanded the Israelites to
“do to him what you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites”, i.e. annihilate
them:
Numbers 21:34 The LORD
said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of Og, for I have handed him over to
you, with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon,
king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon.”
21:35 So they killed him and his sons and all his people, until there was none left to him alive, and they possessed his land.
Moses and the Israelites then massacred the inhabitants of sixty different cities:
Deuteronomy 3:3 So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.
3:4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
3:5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.
3:6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.
3:7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.
In fact, the Bible repeatedly sanctions the genocide of natives:
20:16 In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
20:17 You must utterly
destroy the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and
Jebusites, just as the LORD your God has commanded you.
The next verse explains why “you must utterly destroy” them:
20:18 Otherwise, they
will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping
their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.
The Bible advocates genocide of the adherents of other religions, due
to the fear that the believers may convert. This becomes very clear
when we consider the way Moses and the God of the Bible deal with the
Mobaites and Midianites. Some women from the Moabites and Midianites
partook in consensual sexual relations with Israelite men. After
cohabitating with idolatrous women, the Israelite men were affected by
the Moabite and Midianite religion and culture. Eventually, these men
started worshiping Ba’al Pe’or, the local god of the Moabites and
Midianites. This earned the Israelites the wrath of God:
Numbers 25:1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
25:2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods.
25:3 So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the Lord’s anger burned against them.
God then sent a plague down upon the
people of Israel, which was only lifted after one of the Israelites
murdered a Midianite woman:
25:6 Then an Israelite
man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of
Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand
25:8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and into the woman’s body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
25:10 The Lord said to Moses,
25:11 “Phinehas son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the
Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so
that in my zeal I did not put an end to them.
25:12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him.
25:13 He and his
descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was
zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the
Israelites.”
In verse 25:15, we learn that Cozbi was the name of the Midianite
woman who was murdered. This “honor killing” placated God’s anger, and
God blessed the killer and his descendants with “a covenant of lasting
priesthood.” God did, however, command Moses and the Israelites to
massacre the Midianites:
25:16 The Lord said to Moses,
25:17 “Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them,
25:18 because they
treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the affair of Peor and
their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who
was killed when the plague came as a result of Peor.”
The above verse makes it clear why God commanded Moses and the
Israelites to kill the Midianites: because of the “affair of Peor” (i.e.
the idolatrous women having consensual sexual relations with the
Israelite men and the subsequent idol worship) and Cozbi (the woman who
had sexual relations with an Israelite man).
And so God commanded Moses to attack the Midianites:
31:1 The Lord said to Moses,
31:2 “Avenge the people of Israel of the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
31:3 So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites and to carry out the Lord’s vengeance on them.
31:4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.”
And:
31:7 They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man.
31:8 Among their victims
were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also
killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
31:9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.
31:10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps.
31:11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,
31:12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest…
The Jewish followers of Moses killed every man, and took the women
and children as slaves. They then returned to Moses, but he became
upset at them for not killing the women and children as well. Only the
young virgins fit to be sex slaves were to be kept alive:
31: 14 Moses was angry
with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders
of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
31:15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.
31:16 “They were the
ones who followed Balaam’s advice and were the means of turning the
Israelites away from the Lord in what happened at Peor, so that a plague
struck the Lord’s people.
31:17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,
31:18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
Then God discusses how to divide up the spoils of war:
31:25 The Lord said to Moses,
31:26: “You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured.
31:27 Divide the spoils between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community.
31:28 From the soldiers
who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the Lord one out of
every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep or goats.”
This last verse seems to justify human sacrifices to God “as tribute for the Lord.” The next few verses bear this out:
31:32 The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep,
31:33 72,000 cattle,
31:34 61,000 donkeys
31:35 and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.
31:36 The half share of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep,
31:37 of which the tribute for the Lord was 675;
31:38 36,000 cattle, of which the tribute for the Lord was 72;
31:39 30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute for the Lord was 61;
31:40 16,000 people, of which the tribute for the Lord was 32.
As for the Moabites, they avoided the wrath of Israel for a short
period of time before they were ultimately decimated. That task was
carried out by David, one of Moses’ divinely chosen successors (and a
prophet of Judaism in his own right). The faithful massacred two-thirds
of the Moabites and took the remaining one-third as dhimmis perpetual serfs:
2 Samuel 8:2 David also
conquered the land of Moab. He made the people lie down on the ground in
a row, and he measured them off in groups with a length of rope. He
measured off two groups to be executed for every one group to be spared. The Moabites who were spared became David’s subjects and paid him tribute money.
Some Biblical commentaries argue that two-thirds of the Moabite
population was slaughtered while others argue that only the soldiers
were. In any case, the Moabites were subjected to dhimmitude perpetual serfdom and were forced to pay jizya tribute. But eventually the Moabites revolted against this tributary tax:
2 Kings 3:4
King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He used to pay the king of
Israel an annual tribute of 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.
3:5 But after Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
The Israelites, with the blessing of Elisha (another Jewish prophet),
mobilized three large armies to stamp out the rebellion. The people of
Moab attempted to defend themselves:
3:21 Now all the
Moabites had heard that the three armies had come to fight against them;
so every man, young and old, who could bear arms was called up and
stationed on the border.
The Moabites were vanquished and slaughtered:
3:24 The Israelites invaded the land and slaughtered the Moabites.
3:25 They destroyed the
towns, and each man threw a stone on every good field until it was
covered. They stopped up all the springs and cut down every good tree.
Only [the fortress of] Kir Hareseth was left with its stones in place,
but men armed with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.
The Israelites then called off the siege with the result that a few
Moabites survived. The Moabites were finally destroyed altogether in 2 Chronicles 20, although the actual narration is a bit difficult to follow.
The Biblical Moses was thus responsible for the massacre and genocide
of several populations. These included the people of Arad, Heshbon
(and her surrounding cities), Bashan (including at least sixty cities),
and the Midianites. Before he passed away, Moses was very disappointed
that he couldn’t complete the ethnic cleansing of the land. He wanted
to take part in the genocide of those living past the Jordan:
3:23 At that time I [Moses] pleaded with the Lord:
3:24 “O Sovereign Lord, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do?
3:25 Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that fine hill country and Lebanon.”
God rejected Moses’ plea and declared:
3:28 “But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.”
And so, the job of genocide was divinely passed on from Moses to his successor, Joshua.
Addendum I:
The wars of Muhammad will be addressed in a subsequent part of the
Understanding Jihad Series, which will directly refute chapter 1 (Muhammad: Prophet of War) of Robert Spencer’s book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).
However, it would be helpful to point out the most striking
difference between Moses and Muhammad in this regard. Moses targeted and
killed civilians–women, children, babies, and the infirm elderly.
Moses ordered his soldiers: “Kill all the boys[,] and kill every woman”
(Numbers 31:17), an order which is an oft-repeated imperative in the
Bible. Meanwhile, Muhammad explicitly forbade targeting civilians on
numerous occasions, saying: “Do not kill an infirm old man, an infant,
a child, or a woman.” (Sunan Abu Dawood, book 14, #2608)
Addendum II:
It could be argued that the life and wars of Moses are of
questionable historicity, and that secular scholarship would doubt the
accuracy of Jewish scriptural sources. Yet, this argument is nullified
by the fact that the life and wars of Muhammad are similarly subject to
questionable historicity. The primary sources of Muhammad’s life and
wars come almost exclusively from the Islamic scriptural sources and
tradition, namely “(1) casual allusions in the Qur’an and (2) oral
traditions”. More neutral non-Muslim sources from the seventh century
are scant, and at most confirm the existence of Muhammad and very basic
data. Writes Professor Solomon Alexander Nigosian on p.6 of Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices:
The attempt to separate the historical from the unhistorical elements in the available sources has yielded few, if any, positive results regarding the figure of Muhammad or the role he played in Islam. The predicament faced by modern scholars is perhaps best stated by Harald Motzki:
At present, the study of Muhammad, the founder of the Muslim community, is obviously caught in a dilemma. On the one hand, it is not possible to write a historical biography of the Prophet without being accused of using the sources uncritically, while on the other hand, when using the sources critically, it is simply not possible to write such a biography.
In order to construct narratives of Muhammad’s wars, one must rely on
the Islamic scriptural sources and tradition (the same ones which
Islamophobes use to criticize Islam). It seems only reasonable and fair
then to compare Muhammad with the Moses derived from the Jewish
scriptural sources and tradition. And in this light, Moses does not
stack up well against Muhammad.
Addendum III:
Those who are familiar with my writing know very well that the intent
here is not at all to “bash” Moses or Judaism, but rather to give the
haters a taste of their own medicine in order that they realize the
error in their ways. In particular, the goal is to show that the absurd
standard Islam is held to–or anything related to Islam (Muhammad,
Allah, the Quran, Sharia, Muslims, Muslim-majority countries, etc.)–is
unfair, a fact that becomes painfully obvious when applied in a similar
way to a Jewish/Christian/ analogue.
Addendum IV:
Many of the counter-arguments raised by our opponents will be
addressed in further editions of this series. I initially had planned
on releasing the entire Understanding Jihad Series as one mega-article.
Having realized that this would be well over one hundred pages long, I
decided to heed the advice of LW readers who requested that my articles
be split into parts so as to be easier to digest. This decision comes
with the regret that many of my responses to the trite counter-arguments
I know the Islam-bashers are itching to use will be published at a
later date.
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