1400 years ago Muhammad defeated and expulsed the Jewish tribe of Bney Qaynuqa from the city of Medina. The Quran tells the story:
Muhammad approached Banu Qaynuqa (allies of the Arab Khazraj tribe), gathering them in the market place and addressed them as follows:Some Arab antisemites are saying that the Jews have returned to Medina and are ruling the peninsula.
"O community of Jews, beware that something from God befalls you similar to the curse that descended upon Quraysh, and submit to Islam, for you know that I am the Messenger as you can read in your Book and the covenant of God with you"
They replied:
"O Muhammad, you imagine that we the sons of Qaynuqa are like your people, the sons of Quraysh. Do not deceive yourself because you vanquished a few Quraysh having no knowledge of fighting; for you will find that we are real men, and that you have not met the likes of us".
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Jews are everywhere, even in Malaysia sporting halal names like Anwar Ibrahim. How do you guys manage it? Anti-semitism nearly destroyed the Catholic Church, now its the turn of the Muslims.
We have been around for a very long time.
"Arab antisemites"?
I thought the semittic race included Arabs?
Anti-Jews. OK?
Viking: there is no such thing as semitic race(s). There are semitic languages, like Hebrew and Arabic. The term Antisemitism was invented by an antisemite called Wilhelm Marr.
I'll second Peter. Arabic is spoken by populations as divergent as Sudanese and Lebanese. Are they really of the same race or ethnicity on that account? Even within the Middle East, the Lebanese population is genetically differentiable from the more southern Arabs.
I wish to remark that the Lebanese spoke semitic languages from the very beginning - the Phoenicians spoke Hebrew.
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