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Can you imagine the outcry from muslims if we did that to them? Extortion is what I call it.inJesus this is not right. If you are a believing and practicing christian, you will not be harmed. paying Jizyah is no problem. It is for your security and safety and for the safety of few muslims living in the christian controlled lands. So that they are not harmed.
If you are a believing Jew or a christian, you belong to the people of the book with special privilieges. You are not a Kafir or infidel unless you take upon yourself teh title of an enemy of Islam (Peace). Then you will be like the Muslims of today who are taking up arms against established governments. If you act in a bad manner or be abusive or take up arms against the Muslims state, then you will be punished.
Simple thing is: You are not a Kafir, You are not an infidel, as per the teaching of the Quran. Beileve it or leave it. You cannot show from the Quran that any innocent man may be punished or killed. So please stop accusing Islam. Thanks.
It was also more than just paying money and being humiliated on a daily basis. The dhimmi (subjugated ones).
jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/why-dhimmi.htm
**Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected people,” are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur’an’s command that they “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race.
If dhimmis complained about their inferior status, institutionalized humiliation, or poverty, their masters voided their contract and regarded them as enemies of Islam, fair game as objects of violence. Consequently, dhimmis were generally cowed into silence and worse. It was almost unheard-of to find dhimmis speaking out against their oppressors; to do so would have been suicide. For centuries dhimmi communities in the Islamic world learned to live in peace with their Muslim overlords by acquiescing to their subservience. Some even actively identified with the dominant class, and became strenuous advocates for it.
Spearheaded by dhimmi academics and self-serving advocacy groups, that same attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, school textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today. To do so would endanger chances for peace and rapprochement between civilizations all too ready to clash.
But in this era of global terrorism it must be said: this silence, this distortion, has become deadly. Before 9/11 it was easy to ignore and whitewash dhimmitude, but the atrocities changed the situation forever. In jihads throughout history, untold millions have died. Tens of millions have been uprooted from their homes. Tens of millions have been stripped of their cultural identity. To continue to gloss over the destruction wrought by jihad ideology and its attendant evil of dhimmitude is today to play into the hands of jihadists, who have repeatedly vowed to dhimmify the West and destroy any recalcitrant elements. While jihadist groups, even with their global diffusion, are not strong enough to realize this goal by themselves, they have a potent and destructive ally, a genuine fifth column, in the dhimmi academics and dhimmi journalists they have recruited in the West. They have succeeded in confusing millions in the West into mistaking honesty and truthfulness for bigotry, and self-defense for oppression.
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It is disgraceful that anyone even tries to justify this and to think it is ok. It is abuse of the highest order.