24/10/2021
The Islamic Stateâwhich most Western politicians ludicrously insist âhas nothing to do with Islamââis not alone in calling for jizya from Christian âinfidels.â In 2002, Saudi Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman, discussing the Muslim prophetâs prediction that Islam will eventually conquer Rome, said, âWe will control the land of the Vatican; we will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. Yes, the Christians . . . will yet pay us the jizya, in humiliation, or they will convert to Islam.â
In a video, Sheik âIssam Amira appears giving a sermon in Al Aqsa Mosque where he laments that too many Muslims think jihad is only for defense against aggressors, when in fact Muslims are also obligated to wage offensive jihad against non-Muslims:
"When you face your pagan enemy, call themâeither to Islam, jizya, or seek Allahâs help and fight them. Even if they do not fight [or initiate hostilities], fight them!⊠Fight them! When? When they fight you? No, when they refuse to convert to Islam or refuse to pay jizyaâŠ. Whether they like it or not, we will subjugate them to Allahâs authority."
The word jizya appears in Koran 9:29, in an injunction that should be familiar by now: âFight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.
In the hadith, the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, regularly calls on Muslims to demand jizya of non-Muslims: âIf they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay jizya, seek Allahâs help and fight them.â
The second ârighteous caliph,â Omar al-Khattab, reportedly said that any conquered âinfidelâ who refuses to convert to Islam âmust pay the jizya out of humiliation and lowliness. If they refuse this, it is the sword without leniency.â
This theme of non-Muslim degradation appears regularly in the commentaries of Islamâs authorities. According to the Medieval Islamic Civilization Encyclopedia, Muslim âjurists came to view certain repressive and humiliating aspects of dhimma as de rigueur. Dhimmis [subjugated non-Muslim Christians and Jews] were required to pay the jizya publicly, in broad daylight, with hands turned palm upward, and to receive a smart smack on the forehead or the nape of the neck from the collection officer.â
Some of Islamâs jurists mandated a number of other humiliating rituals at the time of jizya payment, including that the presiding Muslim official slap, choke, and in some cases pull the beard of the paying dhimmi, who might even be required to approach the official on all fours, in be***al fashion.
Past and increasingly present, Muslims profited immensely by exacting jizya from conquered peoples.
For instance, Amr bin al-As, the companion of Muhammad who conquered Christian Egypt in the early 640s, tortured and killed any Christian Copt who tried to conceal his wealth. When a Copt inquired of him, âHow much jizya are we to pay?â the Islamic hero replied, âIf you give me all that you ownâfrom the ground to the ceilingâI will not tell you how much you owe. Instead, you [the Christian Copts] are our treasure chest, so that, if we are in need, you will be in need, and if things are easy for us, they will be easy for you.â
Yet even that was not enough. Caliph Uthman later chided Amr bin al-As because another governor of Egypt had managed to increase the caliphateâs treasury double what Amr had. In the words of Uthman, the âmilk camels [Egyptâs Christians, that is] . . . yielded more milk.â Years later, yet another caliph, Suliman Abdul Malik, wrote to the governor of Egypt advising him âto milk the camel until it gives no more milk, and until it milks blood.â
Read full article by Raymond Ibrahim https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/05/28/islamic-jizya-fact-and-fiction/