The ever-clueless Daily Mail is, of course, treating these rules as if they’re sinister creations of the “conservatives” running the Islamic State. In fact, they are part of traditional and mainstream Islamic law. A manual of Islamic law certified by no less an authority than al-Azhar as a reliable guide to orthodox Sunni Islam lays out these rules for non-Muslim dhimmis living in the Islamic state. Look how closely they correspond to the rules the Islamic State has set out:
Such non-Muslim subjects are obliged to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they:
-1- are penalized for committing adultery or theft, thought not for drunkenness;
-2- are distinguished from Muslims in dress, wearing a wide cloth belt (zunnar);
-3- are not greeted with “as-Salamu ‘alaykum”;
-4- must keep to the side of the street;
-5- may not build higher than or as high as the Muslims’ buildings, though if they acquire a tall house, it is not razed;
-6- are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays;
-7- and are forbidden to build new churches….
If non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state refuse to conform to the rules of Islam, or to pay the non-Muslim poll tax, then their agreement with the state has been violated (dis: o11.11) (A: though if only one of them disobeys, it concerns him alone).
The agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-1- commits adultery with a Muslim woman or marries her;
-2- conceals spies of hostile forces;
-3- leads a Muslim away from Islam;
-4- kills a Muslim;
-5- or mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam. (Reliance of the Traveller 011.5; o119-10)
“How to live as a Christian in Raqqa: ISIS release seven rules for followers of rival faith, including praying out of earshot of Muslims and never mocking Islam,” by Steph Cockroft, Daily Mail, December 23, 2014:
The Islamic State has released a list of rules dictating how Christians living in the Syrian city of Raqqa should behave, including the instruction to never pray in public or within earshot of a Muslim.
In the list of seven rules that Christians must obey, the terror group also warns that there should never be any ‘treachery’ against ISIS, nor any mockery directed towards Muslims or Islam.
The new set of restrictions are applicable to those living in ISIS-controlled Raqqa, previously one of Syria’s most liberal areas.
They are said to be in return for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the head of Islamic State and the most wanted man in the Middle East – granting safety to Christians in the war-torn city, according to the International Business Times.In the document, it says al-Baghdadi will safeguard ‘their selves, children, money and churches’, if Christians obey the stringent list of rules.
It comes just months after the jihadists banned Christians in Raqqa from drinking alcohol in public or from trading pigs or alcohol in markets.
The document opens with a lengthy quote from the Quran which describes how Christians are ‘in a state of subjection’.
THE SEVEN RULES IN RETURN FOR CHRISTIANS’ SAFETYNo public worship
No treachery against ISIS
No church construction or repairs
Do not display crosses in Muslim areas or markets
Praying must be done quietly and should never be heard by Muslims
No mockery of Muslims or Islam
Do not prevent others from converting to Islam
It says: ‘Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgement of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.’
It goes on to explain that public worship and treachery against ISIS is forbidden.
It adds that Christians in Raqqa are no longer allowed to construct churches or even repair any damaged churches in their villages.
They are also banned from publicly showing their crosses in Muslim areas or in their own market places.
The rules then describe how ISIS have forbidden Christians to ‘raise their voices when praying or in other acts of worship’.
In a statement which effectively bans Christians from openly reading from the Bible, the statement says that Muslims ‘do not hear the recitation of their books out loud’.
Likewise, the document prescribes that all acts of worship must be carried out inside a church and never in public.
Christians have also been ordered not to prevent any of their fellow Christians from converting to Islam.
ISIS have also declared that it is illegal for Christians to ‘carry out any actions of enmity to the Islamic State such as helping air strikes locate their positions’.
Defying these rules could result in death….
Libyan Jihad says
Aren’t you used to loving your enemies and turning the other cheek? Hypocrites.
eib says
Loving your enemies is not submitting to them.
If a Muslim Jhadi dies tomorrow, at least he sins no more.
Islam is profane.
rev g says
The pot calling the kettle I see. In loving ones enemies I should pray for them, and invite them to the truth of Christ, not the lie propagated by islam. Indeed we Christians would love for all of the satan-worshipping muslims to leave their vile religion and find the one true God.
Turning the other cheek has never meant to endure mortal danger. It is about taking the moral higher ground, not stooping to the level of those who would insult you. Fortunately for the whole of the rest of humanity, it is nigh on impossible not to have a higher moral ground compared against a devout muslim..
Salah says
That’s precisely why we are trying to liberate Muslims from the darkness of Islam. This is called CHARITY.
Muhammad the Founder of Islam, was he really perfect?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
Salah says
The above comment was in reply to Libyan Jihad: “Aren’t you used to loving your enemies and turning the other cheek? Hypocrites.”
celticwarriorcanada says
LIBYA: I’m sure that when your enemies are going to rape your women and behead your little girls there are exceptions to the rules . The Judeo Christian God Is a Little More Reasonable And Sensible than your STOIC ,IRRATIONAL, HATEFILLED,ANCIENT PHOENICIAN DEITY You and your pack of RABID DOGS call Allah .Maybe you need to learn more about WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ABOUT JUST WAR AND SELF DEFENCE. But I know such enquiry is difficult for people ( if I should even refer to your kind as people) who are taught to mindlessly follow the dictates of a so called PROPHET who justified his inhumane acts , by claiming GOD SAID TO DO IT . P.S. Looking forward to the day I bump into a few of your SYMPATHIZERS . Hopefully in a rough Pub or Bar where a lot of the hypocrites hang out !
Ayatrollah says
You should praise Allah we don’t follow islamic rules on you. If we did, you would be dead and your mother and sister sold into slavery. Our slave markets would be full and our gas tanks too. L.
celticwarriorcanada says
HAY ANUSTROLA It’s interesting how you use the PRONOUN “WE” : but You’re PROBABLY TO STUPID TO KNOW WHAT A PRONOUN IS ! SO LET ME ENLIGHTEN YOU . It’s a GENERALIZED TERM USED IN PLACE OF A .NOUN OR INDIVIDUAL . I.E. DESCRIBES A GROUP OR AN INDIVIDUAL CONNECTED TO A GROUP . CONCLUSION : YOU ARE A WEAK PATHETIC INSECURE BALL LESS BUNCH OF INDIVIDUALS, who join a gang of other WEAK PATHETIC INSECURE BALL LESS MALES : Because AS AN INDIVIDUAL YOU ARE WEAKER THAN THE LITTLE GIRLS YOU BEHEAD ! AND YOU RAPE WOMEN BECAUSE YOU CANNOT GET THEM ANY OTHER WAY ! NORMAL RATIONAL WOMEN ARE REPULSED BY YOU ! P.S . THE ANCIENT CELTS AND VIKINGS WERE BEHEADING PEOPLE WHEN MOHAMMAD WAS STILL IN BAGDAD . SO BRING IT ON YOU LITTLE GIRL !!!
terry says
“The Holy Bible also tells us (emphatically) that
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. The Holy Bible says that: “…There is a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time (listen to this) for WAR and a time for peace, a time to love and a time to HATE, a time to heal and a time to KILL…” (Eccl 3).
So “turning the other cheek” does not apply the EVIL muslims who are following their demonic and blood-thirsty false god and want to destroy they world. These evil muslims and their barabric cult of death have to be eliminated and destroyed without mercy.”
Justin answered your question, few comments below. The above quote is part of his answer.
terry says
There is a problem with the reply button. My above comment was supposed to be a reply to Libyan Jihad, instead I found it many comments below!
pumbar says
Shouldn’t you be in the mosque sticking your arse in the air?
Angemon says
Libyan Jihad posted:
“Aren’t you used to loving your enemies and turning the other cheek?”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2006/12/should_a_state_turn_the_other.html
wallace says
Merry xmas Libyan Jihad, yes we have had a go at that stuff, but you are piss=taking reptiles so the time has come for putting on the heavy boots and kicking your bony arses back to the sandpits. Love and peace man , Would have enjoyed having had you round for Xmas dinner , little glass of mulled wine , pull a xmas cracker or two and give you contact details for a a good psychotherapist friend of mine
Gart says
No it would not be reasonable. You would be percecuting ordinary people for the crimes of others. You might be argry and feeling powerless, but in inflicting punishment so arbitarily you expose yourself as a moron.
Gart says
Yes you might be ‘safer’ as you say from Islam if you made them all vanish. but you would find yourself residing in a police state. You wish to give, I should say surrender, your own rights not to cleasned yourself. Who’s next on your list of undesirables? Commies, jews gays?
CogitoErgoSum says
The hypocrisy of these “submitters to Allah” causes the bile to rise in my throat. This is the way the “best of people” behave? Oh sure, Muslims are the “best of people” and everyone else who fails to agree must either be killed or subjugated. Give me a break from all the lies. Muslims = the racist master race. Damn their religion of submission to hell. I will not submit.
Champ says
I will not submit.
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Bravo, CogitoErgoSum! I will not submit, either …
But one day *every* knee will bow, and *every* tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord!
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” — Philippians 2:9-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRPb8K2HL0
Awesome video!
boakai ngombu says
nor shall I
IS and their ilk are like Lamech, who said to his wives: (Genesis 4: 23b,24, ESV) “… I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.”
they are like the sea …. always moving, churning up muck … constantly spilling blood
Charli Main says
“THE SEVEN RULES IN RETURN FOR CHRISTIANS’ SAFETY”
Soon to be adopted by the European Union Parliament in Brussels as part of their plans to roll over and p*ss on their collective bellies, rather than risk ” upsetting the Muslims”.
Shane says
There are millions of left wingers in the USA who would like to apply those rules to Christians and Jews. The left in Europe and American is allied with Islamic supremacists against Christians.
G179 says
Islam is a religion of peace, the only problem is that Islam redefines peace.
What devout muslims call “peace”, the rest of us call extreme violence and intimidation.
eib says
Muslimi mali. Islamo non parebo hodie et mane. Christus filius Dei.
Gart says
Low IQ’s? Try googling Bagdad Uni which some 1000 years ago was the pinnacle of human knowledge at the time. Most of the knowledge passed down to us concerning classical greek understanding comes from here. We learned europes passed glories from Arabic sources dummy. You should read up on how those who called themselves christian have throughout the ages been guilty of some of the worst crimes its possible to commit. You are part of the problem, YOU sound more like IS than ordinary Joe muslim.. I would not say IS is not Islamic however, they are, Its just that I accept the sense in allowing all other muslims to define their own faith, without being lumped together in a box like you do. I discriminate, you do not.
rev g says
Sorry, this lie has been debunked for quite some time now. None of what you speak of can be attributed to islam, The fact is that what exceptionalism did exist in the middle east was stifled and snuffed out by islam. It was the Byzantine’s that can be given credit for handing down the Greek writings.
celticwarriorcanada says
EXACTLY REV.G ! The Ottoman Turks relentlessly and fraudulently stole everything they boasted of from the Byzantines! this included : their children , their great Cathedral ST. SOPHIA, , the Classical Writings of Aristotle , Euclid , Plato etc. which they used to defend Christianity and their culture . These stolen items were turned around and used to defend Islam .Islam is laden with a history of theft . According to their own law they should have their own hands cut off . Unfortunately if the Western and Eastern Byzantines had not become so divided then they may have been able kept the Ottomans out !
Salah says
“…the terror group also warns that there should never be any ‘treachery’ against ISIS, nor any mockery directed towards Muslims or Islam.”
Are they allowed to read the Qur’an and the hadith? if so, let’s read and…NOT MOCK!!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/drawing-muhammad-dessiner-mahomet.html
Salah says
Apparently the “reply” button is not working.
Salah says
BTW, the Islamic State is losing ground.
Al Jazeera: “Kurdish offensive against ISIL gains momentum”
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/kurdish-offensive-against-isil-gains-momentum/ar-BBhe8dk?ocid=mailsignoutmd
Papa Whiskey says
Be it noted that these dhimmi rules were first propounded by Umar ibn al-Khattab, second caliph after the death of Muhammad, in the pact of subjugation he imposed on the Christians of Syria after conquering that region. Said pact may be found at:
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.asp
Among its provisions are:
“We shall not teach the Qur’an to our children.” (Because Allah forbid the kuffar know what we think of him and what we have in store for him.)
“We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our- persons.” (Because Allah forbid the kuffar have the means to resist our oppression.)
PRCS says
RS states:
“The ever-clueless Daily Mail is, of course, treating these rules as if they’re sinister creations of the “conservatives” running the Islamic State. In fact, they are part of traditional and mainstream Islamic law.”
Here’s what I believe is the relevant definition of ‘conservative’ as the Daily Mail uses it.
Conservative: reluctant to accept change: in favor of preserving the status quo and traditional values and customs, and against abrupt change
Islam is a conservative philosophy and perhaps the majority of its adherents are–per the above definition–conservatives; some of whom are willing to kill themselves rather than to see their complete way of life changed in any way.
Does the Daily Mail article refer to their ‘reluctance to change’ or to a political persuasion?
dumbledoresarmy says
There’s nothing to stop UK jihadwatchers from writing Letters to the Editor to the Daily Mail, providing the list of the Conditions of Omar, or “pact” of Omar, as summarised by Mr Spencer above, and pointing out how they match up exactly with the restrictions that the Islamic State jihadis are imposing upon the few surviving Christians in Raqqa.
Nothing, either, to stop UK jihadwatchers from writing to their MPs, to the PM, and to the Archbishop of Canterbury, making the same point: that the Islamic State jihadis are reading from, and imposing, the playbook of classical Islam, to the letter. Nothing new, nothing made up; it’s just Islam, Islam, Islam.
Give your MP – do it face to face, in person – a copy of Mark Durie “The Third Choice”. Tell him/ her that if they read this book they will understand *exactly* why there is so much repression and persecution of non-Muslim people within all Muslim-dominated countries.
And those of us who reside in *other* countries across ‘the West’ – and in some cases, beyond the West, such as, for example, in India – can do similar.
wallace says
Hi Dumblesdoresarmy, totally agree with everything you said there. I spend a very large amount of time writing to M.PS, the clergy , the Royal family , newspapers , imams. and anyone else I can. I wrote to David Camoran last week , he was on the tele assuring me that islam is a religion of peace , I have sent a postal order to cover postage as I asked him if he could possibly exchange his copy of the quaran for mine, I told him I must have somehow got a copy that has slipped by the proof readers as mine has got some nasty shit in , beheadings, amputatations , calls for murder and stuff like that. I should get a response once the xmas mail eases up. Peace and best wishes for 2015
Jack Holan says
2008-Obama-spoke-at-a-church-and-required-the-church-to-cover-all-crosses-while-he-spoke-there
somali says
I wanna tell christians and westerners we will be more than hapy if you deport all muslims in your countries back to their countries but the problem is u can’t u need them becouse of your dying populations, I want you all to know muslims are coming back they are coming back to lands they use to rule they are coming back for andalus(spain purtogal and france) they are coming back for india and china and they will remove the corupted rulers of the muslim rulers and they will remove the cursed jews from the holy land its a promise that our prophet said in hadith there will be Caliphate after me and it will be as allah wills then it will be kingdoms and it will be as allah wills after that caliphate will come back and it come back and it will be successfull insha allah.
wallace says
Oh dear Somali that all sounds very sad to most of us. As regards to that lovely country of Purtogal unfortunately King Neptune has claimed that and dragged it back into the sea. Happy cassava to you my friend,
Angemon says
somali took a break from trying to rob ships and posted:
“(spain purtogal and france)”
Is purtogal the country who discovered brizal?