Comparing Jewish Law vs. Islamic Law on War

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    Unlike Islamic Law, Jewish Law permits war tactics like biological genocide and the intentional killing of women and children.

    Jewish law (Torah) and Islamic law (Sharia) fundamentally differ in many respects. Unlike the Islamic law of war, the Jewish law of war permits (and, in certain cases, commands) the intentional killing of women and children. Such is done to further biological genocide campaigns.

    The Hebrew Bible gives Jews a continuing obligation to exterminate the Amelekites (Deuteronomy 25:19). This obligation includes the intentional killing of their women and children (1 Samuel 15:3).

    Later Jewish religious scholars interpret “Amelekites” to mean any people that is a staunch enemy of the Jews, and opposes their political interests. Jewish scholars have applied the term “Amelekites” to pagan Romans, Christians, and Nazis. In recent times, the term has frequently been applied to Muslims – especially Palestinians.

    See e.g., “Chapter Six in Philip Jenkins, Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can’t Ignore the Bible’s Violent Verses.”

    Also simply google “Palestinians” and “Amalek.”

    It is also worth noting that the Jewish tradition endorses the idea of hiding certain teachings from non-Jews, in order to avoid provoking their anger. Thus, Jews often avoid explicitly endorsing the killing of non-Jewish groups. Rather they simply refer to these groups as “Amalekites.” This is to prevent non-Jewish groups from understanding the genocidal incitement directed against them.

    That being said, with the spread of social media, it is not difficult to find open examples of such genocidal incitement (e.g., the current mass incitement currently directed at the Palestinians).

    RELATED: Palestine: Combating Disinformation and False Propaganda

    It is important to recognize that incitement to exterminate the enemies of the Jews is a key aspect of the Jewish religious and cultural tradition, which remains influential to this day.

    Islamic law differs from Jewish law in that it rejects the intentional killing of women and children. This is because Islamic law, unlike Jewish law, rejects the idea of biological genocide as a valid military strategy.

    Islamic legal rules (i.e., jihad rules) banning the killing of women and children are based on the clear example of the Prophet ﷺ and the earliest Muslims.

    For example, in one hadith, it is stated that

    “[A] woman was found killed in one of these battles; so the Messenger of God (ﷺ) forbade the killing of women and children.”

     

    Saḥīḥ Muslim, Kitāb al-Jihād wa al-Siyar

    The first Caliph Abū Bakr gave the following command to his armies:

    “Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty, and do not be cowardly.”

    Mālik, al-Muwaṭṭa, Kitāb al-Jihād

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    Daniel Haqiqatjou
    Daniel Haqiqatjou
    Daniel Haqiqatjou (pronounced: Ha-qee-qat-joo) was born in Houston, Texas. He attended Harvard University where he majored in Physics and minored in Philosophy. He completed a Masters degree in Philosophy at Tufts University.

    15 COMMENTS

    1. Ali Dawah and Smile2Jannah don’t know the whole truth about the juice. Someone needs to red pill them, along with Muhammad Hijab, who took the vax.
      It is 2023, how come these prominent muslims on social media don’t know the whole truth? Someone should contact them, via PMs or IRL and red pill them on these matters.

      • Ali Dawah, Smile2Jannah and Mohammed Hijab are entertainers. Neither I take them seriously nor I listen to them. Mohammed Hijab laughs, dances, jokes and make fun of everything, filling his vidéos with catchphrases.

      • Maybe these three entertainers-preachers want to stay mainstreamers by doing self-censorpship. Youtube strikes and removes more and more what contradict mainstream narratives

        • I don’t think so, looking at their videos, like Hijab’s debate with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and his debate in South Africa with that juice where he called the commies who ended Apartheid as “great people”, it doesn’t seem that way
          When someone is red pilled about these matters, you can tell when they self censor, and the way they talk about certain matters. honestly, these 3 people, it seems to me they don’t know the whole truth of the lies of the 20th century.

    2. There is something that is very strange, the Palestinian flag is based on the “flag of the arab revolt” designed by Englishman Mark Sykes.
      “The flag of the Arab Revolt, also known as the flag of Hejaz, was a flag used by Hussein bin Ali and his allies, the Arab nationalists, during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and as the first flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz.”

      The Arab revolt was supported by the British, and the British took away Palestine from the Ottomans

      • and later gave it to the juice.

        I don’t understand why Palestians would use a flag design that is made by people who stole their land and gave it to the juice. Really strange.

        • Arabs as a whole, palestine included, have succumbed to nationalism. The fight for Palestine is not an Islamic fight. The fight for Al Aqsa and freedom of Muslims from an oppressive enemy are Islamic fights. This distinction should be made clear.

          • We should separate arab nationalism with islam. In France, muslims know very little about non-Arabs countries : Rohingyas, West Turkestan and Indians muslims are put apart because they are not Arabs. Arab nationalism was created in order to disconnect Arabs from Islam since Arab nationalism is secularist. Lawrence of Arabia stated the tree of Islam should be removed by planting the tree of nationalism, and that is what he did. In France, nationalists don’t really care about christianism.

            • There is this Irishman who has been debunking these recent atrocity propaganda, Keith Woods, he is an advocate for nationalism. Strange thing is, this was used to divide muslims as you mentioned, and, nationalism has been a complete failure in Europe, as shown by the events of WW2.
              Also, Spain, who was run by a christian nationalist who alligned with Germany who destroyed the failed commie revolution, is now a woke LGBT feminist state.
              Inshaallah these people will learn that only Islam can

      • Genocide means wiping a people completely. Islam only allows fighting combatans. Combatant populations do not include all the men of the country in general. Maybe for Israel they do.

    3. I realize that those Islamophobic propagandists who attack Islam, those like Wood and Spencer, supported by z***ists, that they are projecting what their religion teaches on wr and klng their enemies on muslims. It is not just wr, but how they treat outsiders in their group when they make up the term “dhimmitude” (combination of dhimmi and servitude) when they call non ***s cattle and animals that are their slaves that serve them.
      Not only that, but there is racial supremacy which not in Islam

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