Five short years following the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his refugee community to Madinah — a community still reeling from persecution and sanctions — the young community of Muslims would be presented with their most unnerving political action to date. An army over 10,000 strong, the likes of which the Arabian Peninsula had never before seen, would converge upon the sanctuary city in the name of national(ist) security, intent on massacring its 3,000 resisters and all of the Muslim inhabitants. They would presciently come to be known as the Confederates. Out-resourced and underequipped, the young community of refugees resolved to dig a trench in an effort to insulate…