jizya

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Armed Christians said they were the only ones who could defend their communities from extremist Sunni and Shiite attacks and kidnappings for refusing to pay "jizya," an obsolete tax levied on non-Muslims during the 7th century at the height of Islam's expansion.

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  • As Ahl al-Kitab, protected Peoples of the Scriptures, the Jews were assured freedom of religion only in exchange for the jizya, payment of a poll tax imposed on all non-Muslims. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • So we go to this thing, for which Arnie forks out waaaay too much jizya at the door to get in. —  Girl On The Right
  • It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh 'Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only "provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya) ... while remaining in their ancestral religions." —  Atlas Shrugs
  • Italy's Berlusconi, of whom the TT has given the thumbs up on numerous occasions, gets a giant thumbs down for the jizya Italy has recently promised to pay to the thug in Tripoli, for past wrongs committed by Musolini during the 30's and 40's. —  Tundra Tabloids.......
  • Though they have intimidated its Christian minority, they have yet to impose the jizya tax on them, with humiliation of course. —  Tundra Tabloids.......
 

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