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and their view of Christians and Jews develops accordingly.
Another example concerns female prisoners in towns under siege.
All captives, male or female are placed under protection in the Koran,
which commands that they should be released at the end of hostilities.
But according to the Torah, women and children in a besieged town
are the "property of the enemy" and "can be pillaged":

If they reject your peace offer and declare war, you shall lay siege to [the
city]. When God your Lord gives it over into your hand, you shall then
strike down its [adult] males by the sword. However, the women, children,
animals, and all the goods in the city, you shall take as your spoils. You
shall thus consume the spoils that God your Lord gives you from your en-
emies. (Deuteronomy, 20:12-14)
Furthermore, in some circumstances, women and even children
and babies in besieged towns must be put to death:

However, Moses was angry at the generals and captains, who were the of-
ficers returning from the military campaign. "Why have you kept all the
women alive?" demanded Moses. "These are exactly the ones who were in-
volved with the Israelites at Balaam's instigation, causing them to be un-
faithful to God in the Peor incident, and bringing a plague on God's com-
munity. Now kill every male child, as well as every woman who has been
involved intimately with a man. However, all the young girls who have
not been involved intimately with a man, you may keep alive for your-
selves." (Numbers, 31: 14-18)
"Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring an army against them
and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered. For their enemies will
stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and
daughters and burn their homes. (Ezekiel, 23: 46-47)
... I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and
maidens. (Jeremiah, 51: 22)
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed

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