Syrian opposition army imposes jizya on Christians in Homs

UPDATE: There is no link for this story because it is not online. My source is the BBC Monitoring Middle East email.

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"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." -- Qur'an 9:29

Muslim spokesmen in the West routinely claim that this verse has no applicability in the modern world. Here are yet more Muslims who didn't get that memo. We have seen this recently in Tunisia as well.

"Syrian opposition army imposes Islamic tax on Christians in Homs," from BBC MidEast, April 10 (thanks to David):

Al-Haqiqah in Arabic, a web site published by the opposition France-based Syrian National Council for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation, on 9 April publishes a 1,300-word "exclusive" report saying that Al-Faruq Battalion, which is affiliated with the opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA), is imposing Jizyah (an extra tax imposed on non-Muslims living under Muslim rule) on Christians in Homs Governorate. The report also says that "hundreds of Pakistani armed men" arrived in Homs to fight against the regular Syrian Army.
The report cites "Syrian citizens in a number of [Christian] villages in Wadi al-Nasara, which is part of Tal Kalakh district in Homs Governorate," saying that "armed men from the Wahhabi Al-Faruq Battalion, which is active in Homs and its districts, have started
asking the residents of those villages to pay Jizyah and Kharaj." Kharaj is the Islamic term for property tax. The report says: "This is the first action of its kind since the Syrian uprising started, or at least since it turned into an 'armed Islamic revolution' and the Islamists dominated the street a few months ago."

The report cites citizens from those Christian villages saying that armed men from the said battalion force citizens to pay the Islamic taxes and threaten to kidnap or kill them or members of their families if they refuse to comply. One citizen is cited saying that "the countryside of the city of Tal Kalakh is now under the mercy of the armed Al-Faruq Battalion members, who are freely roaming the region as if they were the state's security and administrative agency." He says some of those who refused to pay Jizyah had their sons kidnapped or killed. The report, citing this unidentified man, says: "He estimated the number of people who were kidnapped in the region because they refused or were unable to pay Jizyah at more than 20. He said that while there is absolutely no news about some of them, others are certainly kept in detention centres the armed men created in Ammar al-Husn village, which turned into an operation headquarters for the armed men and their authority in the region."...

The report also cites "very reliable local sources" saying that Dayr B'albah district in Homs and the nearby town of Tir M'allah "are now full of Pakistani fighters." The report adds: "This is the first time fundamentalist Pakistani fighters are reported in any of the Arab or Islamic countries that witnessed an influx of foreign Jihadists. The sources explained the presence of these fighters in Syria by saying that almost all of them came from Turkey and Europe, particularly the UK, which has a large Pakistani community numbering millions. This community was and still is the biggest reservoir for fundamentalist fighters outside the Islamic world." The report adds: "The sources said local and Arab armed men, in addition to the residents of the two towns, complain of the difficulty to communicate with these Pakistani mujahidin, as none of them knows Arabic. The two towns are among the most conservative and fanatic regions in Syria. They were an important source for the Muslim Brotherhood and the Combatant Vanguard during the crisis of the eighties."

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ala sux | April 10, 2012 7:56 AM | Reply

I still remember Robert's debate at a university and a Muslims took the mic and denied the Jizya , then , even as you cited the quran to prove it the yahoo kept talking over you because he taqqiyah wasn't working.

Nobody seems to have the true and REAL quran to cite from because most islamists say the verses are out of context or must be in Arabic to be a true quran.
i find it odd and very telling that Clerics and Imam's hardly carry a quran to cite the verse for us to see and read it aloud too. They quote muhammed and the quran but get defensive if challenged.

The true islam is being unmasked as Tv and news reports prove the jihad and mass slaughters
that CAIR and Hooper denied for years now. CAIR took almost 3 years to finally admit the 9/11 hijakers WERE muslims, but they qualified it as Misunderstanders that hijacked islam first and then the planes.

Infidel | April 10, 2012 11:30 AM | Reply

Cool! In all the times I called for Sunnis to converge on Syria, I just called on Arab Sunnis to do it, since even I didn't expect Pakistanis to go get involved in a taqfir civil war. But since they have, my congratulations to them.

Speaking of which, looks like I haven't been following the news - the Baathists still control that country. So I was surprised to read about the FAS being as bold as to impose Jizia in Homs. Time for Assad to bring in Hizbullah to fight and clear them out, if they haven't done that already. Iran too needs to be more fully involved.

Infidel | April 10, 2012 11:34 AM | Reply

Forgot to add - on another note, looks like Syria is to European Muslims what Somalia is to American Muslims. Just as US Jihadis had been moving to Somalia to fight Jihad and getting killed there, the UK seems to be having at least a part of its Muslim immigration problem solved by their resident Pakis going to Syria. Had there been a sensible government in London, they'd have been busy arming the Syrian regime so that all those Pakis get killed right there in Syria. Well, hope Syria gets all its weaponry it needs from the Iranians, N Koreans, Chinese and Russians, so that it can send them directly to allah

denimman | April 10, 2012 3:22 PM | Reply

I take it that these Wahabbis' are those people in Syria that the BBC continually refer to as "activists".

Kinana of Khaybar | April 10, 2012 3:32 PM | Reply

"armed men from the Wahhabi Al-Faruq Battalion, which is active in Homs and its districts, have started
asking the residents of those villages to pay Jizyah and Kharaj."

These armed men must have been reading Islamophobic material.

Ronald W. Carnine | April 11, 2012 12:34 AM | Reply

Where are the human rights watchdogs in the UN when you need them? If the UN can call for an investigation into a shooting in the US, why can they not condemn extortion that is being leveled at Christians? It is unbelievable that in the modern world that people don't rise up and demand a stop to such behavior. Islam should be ashamed and if there are any "moderate" Muslims out there, why are they not apologizing for this blatant example of "hijacked" Islam?

Kepha replied to comment from Ronald W. Carnine | April 11, 2012 2:53 AM | Reply

It's very believable because the "watchdogs" at the UN and the US Dept. of State are generally people who'd love to see the West lose the last of its Christianity. How do you expect them to stand up for Christians in the Middle Eas

exsgtbrown | April 11, 2012 5:43 AM | Reply

"...particularly the UK, which has a large Pakistani community numbering millions. This community was and still is the biggest reservoir for fundamentalist fighters outside the Islamic world"

Attention U.K....your immigration and diversity programs are failures...

American Delight | April 11, 2012 8:57 AM | Reply

Under the caliphate, there was jizya. In the modern Islamic world, wherever there is instability, jizya resurfaces. In Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Philippines, jizya has cropped up.

MBR | April 11, 2012 5:34 PM | Reply

These civil wars aren't cheap to fight, you know.

We don't expect the Christians to take part in them but they must understand our protecting them costs money.

Fair's fair, as the Prophet once said.

Somewhere or other.

I think.

Maybe it was Allah.

We worship them both. Does it really matter, Infidel?

gravenimage | April 11, 2012 7:20 PM | Reply

Syrian opposition army imposes jizya on Christians in Homs
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And so it begins...

Qur'an 9:29—the "Sura of the Sword"—the last word in Islam, quite literally.

The report says: "This is the first action of its kind since the Syrian uprising started, or at least since it turned into an 'armed Islamic revolution' and the Islamists dominated the street a few months ago."
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That means the "Islamists" are feeling pretty cocky...

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