The Christians owe that money to the Muslims: “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.” (9:29)
The Shi’ites, well, they’re just heretics, Rafidite dogs, and so once one accepts a system in which those who believe differently must pay tribute to the true believers, it is not a huge leap to the idea that the Shi’ites must pay tribute as well.
“ISIS Orders All Christian, Shiite Business Assets to Be Delivered to the Islamic State,” AINA, September 16, 2014:
(AINA) — The Arabic language Alsumaria News is reporting that ISIS has ordered all Sunni businesses with Christian and Shiite partners to deliver the non-Sunni share of the business to the Islamic State. ISIS gave a two day deadline to comply with the order, else all assets would be confiscated.
According to the report, ISIS has a complete list of of businesses with Christian and Shiite partners.
ISIS is now charging tariffs on all goods entering the Nineveh Province. Goods deemed offensive to Islam are seized and destroyed.
In other news, ISIS has removed all clothes from department stores in Mosul and imposed the Afghan style of clothing on the city. ISIS has also segregated male and female students at the University of Mosul, changed the curriculum and renamed the Fine Arts college to “Text Decoration.”
AnneM says
Not surprised. The Muslims must have that “jizya” paid!
Angemon says
Let me guess – if christians were to convert to islam then they’d be allowed to keep their property. But remember, “For you is your religion, and for me is my religion” (quran 109:6) and “There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion” (quran 2:256).
Beagle says
This seems to go beyond the humiliating jizya of old. That was paid annually and the taxpayer was to be subjected to some kind of act of obeisance and a threat of death which could be carried out on occasion. But simple confiscation means it’s a one-time payment which can only lead to a death penalty if it’s required again. Which I guess is the point.
Maybe Esposito, Cole, or Armstrong could jet over to IS and set them straight on the jizya.
Beagle says
The “Sunni business” description seems unnecessary. By the extension of the terms of the rule any funds which go to non-Sunnis are to be taken. So every business, logically, has to be Sunni or it returns nothing. I would assume all non-Sunni Muslim sole proprietors have already had their businesses confiscated. Whatever. Trying to analyze IS with too much logic hurts my head.
All I know is that this could not have anything to do with Islam or a state. Clearly such a tax is not found in Quran ayat 9.29 and taxation is not a traditional state function.
Jerry says
So said the Plunderer for Profit PBUH (P..s Be Upon Him).
True Islam is not a Theocracy.
It is a Kleptocracy.
gravenimage says
Islamic State appropriates all Christian, Shiite business assets
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This is appalling, but should not in any way surprise.
Islam is the religion of tribute and piracy—Jizya, caravan-raiding, ransom, slavery, and street-crime Jihad.
And why not? As pious Muslims see it, *everything* belongs to them. If some enterprising Infidels—or ‘apostates’ or ‘heretics’—have created something, then it was “stolen” from Muslims.
Devout Muslims have no concept of innovation or productive labor—which they utterly disdain as fit only for slaves. If someone has something, it is theirs, and they may seize it any way they can.
God, I hate Islam.
I imagine some of these Christians and Shi’ites may have thought they would be at least somewhat protected if they had Sunni partners—but even this is not so.
From what I have heard, I believe that the few Christian, Yazidi, and Shi’ite businesses without Sunni partners have already been seized.
Even before the horrific advent of ISIS, it was common for majority Muslims to approach the businesses of religious minorities in Iraq and demand that they be made partners as a protection racket—mostly Sunnis in places like Sunni-majority Anbar, and mostly Shi’ites elsewhere in Iraq.
rabrooks says
Perfect! I could not have said it better!
Are you running for president?
UneasyOne says
Unless we realize that islam is a political ideology that can’t be reformed and is the inherent, implacable enemy of freedom and democracy, they will eventually win.
Because we will continue to allow “peaceful” muslims to infiltrate us and breed us into oblivion. Lebanon was once a christian country. Now it’s a largely muslim hellhole.
From the article: “ISIS has also segregated male and female students at the University of Mosul, changed the curriculum and renamed the Fine Arts college to “Text Decoration.”
This is how we can win, if we will.
We will have to brand islam as a political system masquerading as a religion and inherently opposed to constitutional government. And we should stop selling them or giving them arms, worldwide. Their hatred of education will prevent them developing new technologies. If we don’t allow them to steal ours, they will revert to the desert nomad lifestyle that religion will accommodate.
Joan in Houston says
……a political system masquerading as a religion……
This fact should be preached far and wide, to open the eyes of the misled.
((My very first instructor of American Government was a man whose Roman Catholic family had fled Lebanon, and immigrated to our country,many decades ago.))
TH says
Doesn’t everybody know that the false pophet was an armed bandit, a pedophile, a Jew hating warlord, a sex maniac etc.?
fair_dinkum says
im surprised they didnt just take them prisoner or kill them.
my grim prediction is that they will all be rounded up, shia, christian, miscreant sunnis, anyone else (kurds/yazidi etc) and be executed, enslaved, driven out. in one big push.
i think this is unusually lenient. i have to wonder what it precursors ?
“buying” (forcing) non sunnis out is a good way to collect data on those people too.
and even compile a list of sunnis who collaborated with non sunnis.
Mr Paul Middleton says
A sample of Mohammad’s revelations:
EVERYTHING THOSE INFIDELS HAVE EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD ALREADY BELONGS TO THE MOZLEMS, TAKE IT:
Koran 33.27: “And He made you heirs to their land and their dwellings and their property, and to a land which you have not yet trodden, and Allah has power over all things.”
Koran 21:44: “Do they not see us advancing, gradually reducing the land (in their control), curtailing it’s borders on all sides? It is they who will be overcome.”
paddy says
muslims are so crap at doing business.
Gardener says
What exactly are you trying to accomplish by posting that? It is as if you are trying to downplay the role of Islam in persecuting Christians, yet even in that quote you posted it is acknowledged that Islam is by far the most prominent source of it.
The bottom line of that quote, “that extremism and intolerance of whatever stripe, not Islam, is the threat” is misguided. There are violent actions carried out by religious groups that find no justification in the scripture of their religion. Islam is unique in this sense both because of the extreme hostility evident in Islamic scripture and the amount of Muslims in the world. One and a half billion people can easily sustain thousands upon thousands of the most violent fanatics and millions of sympathizers of movements like al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and Hamas.
This site is about the problems deriving from Islam. The site is called Jihad Watch for a reason. In fact, in the past it was split into Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch, but they were combined at one point. The site wasn’t made for reporting on all manner of anti-Christian activities. It is about what happens when Muslims take Islamic teachings to heart and act on them, and it isn’t only about victimized Christians but also about victimized Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians, atheists, women, children, liberals, gays, you name it. Islamic orthodoxy is an enormous problem to the whole mankind.
There are many, many peaceful Muslims, but the doctrines of Islam won’t stop fostering and encouraging fanaticism of the most virulent sort unless Muslims themselves start working against those doctrines en masse. As of today not one mainstream Muslim group or organization is working to nullify the violence and barbarity taught in the Qur’an and the hadiths.