Every element in the “contract” below is an established and mainstream element of Islamic law, although of course Aleteia, which is an organ of the establishment Catholic denial regarding the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, doesn’t tell you that. The Islamic State is not fabricating these laws in a manifestation of their “extremism.” They are reviving elements of Islamic law that are not being enforced today in Muslim countries.
“Christians in Syrian Town Where Priest Was Kidnapped Now Paying Jizya,” by John Burger, Aleteia, September 4, 2015 (thanks to P. JCS):
While tens of thousands of Muslim refugees are streaming into Christian Europe, a small Christian community in the Syrian town of Quaryatayn are praying for the return of their kidnapped priest and are beginning to pay a tax levied on “infidels” by the Islamic State group.
The heads of local churches are reportedly engaged in negotiations for the release of Father Jacques Murad, a priest who was kidnapped from his monastery in Quaryatayn in May, and about 270 Christians and Muslims taken hostage by jihadi militias during an offensive in the area southeast of Homs.
The hostages’ are reportedly still in Quaryatayn and are in “stable and secure” condition, Fides news agency reported Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State has offered Christians still living in Quaryatayn a contract in which the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “guarantees their money, souls, [and] not to force them to change their religion and not to harm anyone of them,” according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. As reported by SOHR, the Christians in turn are required:
° Not to establish any church, monastery and hermitage.
° Not to show a cross or anything from their books in Muslims roads and markets, and not to use amplifiers when they perform their prayers.
° Not to make Muslims hear the recitation of their books and sound of their bells, and to use the bells only inside the churches.
° Not to do any aggressive acts against the Islamic State, such as hiding spies and the wanted, and if they know that there is conspiracy against Muslims they have to report that.
° To commit themselves not to show something of their rituals of worship.
° To respect Islam and Muslims, so not to vilify anything in their religion.
° The Christians must comply with paying Jizya (a religiously required per capita tax on non-Muslims under Islamic law) that is 4 golden dinars (the dinar here means the golden dinar that was used in transactions because it has fixed amount that is 4.25 gm of pure gold) paid by the rich, half of them paid by the middle class and half of that on the poor, and they can pay them in two installments a year.
° They cannot have weapons.
° Do not trade in the sale of pork or wine with Muslims or in their markets and do not drink wine in public.
° They have their own cemetery as usual.
° To commit themselves of regulations imposed by the Islamic State, like modesty in wearing clothes and regulations of buying and selling etc.The statement concludes with the warning, “in case they violate the conditions of this writ, then Islamic State is going to deal with them as they deal with people of war.”
The Observatory quoted “reliable sources” confirming that Christians were given a choice of paying the jizya, becoming Muslims or leaving the city. “IS received money in the last 48 hours from Christian clerks from the city,” the report said. “IS is still keeping the Christian citizens’ IDs. The sources reported that most people of the city are going leave after taking their IDs….

Angemon says
“Religion of peace” indeed…
Bronson says
Sounds awfully like the Pact of Umar, one of the first caliphs and is another clear message from Caliph Baghdadi that the old order is re-instated.
mortimer says
The so-called ‘pact’ of Pact of Umar (or Covenant of Umar or Treaty of Umar or The laws of Umar) is an apocryphal treaty between the Muslims and the Christians that later gained a canonical status in Islamic jurisprudence. It is really a series of decrees imposed forcibly by the Muslim authorities without the consent of Christians subjugated against their will under Islamic rule.
It was likely forged during the reign of Caliph Omar II and attributed retroactively to Omar I.
Everywhere in the Muslim world the Pact of Omar is considered normative persecution of religious minorities, rather than an aberration or a ‘perversion’ of Islam.
Michael Copeland says
CONVERT, SUBMIT, OR BE KILLED
“Convert, submit, or be killed”:
These are the choices they give.
When you convert you join the gang:
Leave, and they won’t let you live.
When you submit you become second class,
With a tax that you’re forced to pay.
Refusal to pay or refusal to join
Will simply condemn you to death that day.
Islam’s Mission:
Inflict Sharia Law on All Mankind – I.S.L.A.M.
bill walker says
-The Xians should make a counter offer to their tax. Offer to not blow up their mosques in return for their elimination of their ‘tax’. 🙂
mortimer says
Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was one of the best students ever at the Islamic University of Baghdad. His teachers claimed he knew more about Islam than his teachers.
Did university professors of Islamic studies misunderstand Islam? They claim al Baghdadi understands Islam perfectly.
Linde Barrera says
I really feel horrible for the innocent Christians and other minorities in Syria and Iraq. I think they should leave as soon as possible, even if they don’t get their ID back. They could get into Lebanon and then take a short boat ride to Cyprus. I dont know that Cyprus would grant them refugee status, but it is worth a shot, and the Embassy of Cyprus can clarify. This pact sounds like “Deal or No Deal with the caliph”. (Not to be trusted for a nano second.)
mortimer says
Linde, Saudi Arabia created Salafism and taught it to all the other countries. They are responsible for the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Saudi Arabia should pay for all the refugees. They created the crisis.
Cecilia Ellis says
Mortimer, perfectly said!
Mazo says
Your zionist governments don’t care about the Christian refugees.
Cecilia Ellis says
And your Muslim governments don’t care about Muslim refugees. This is strange, as Saudi Arabia, for example, is approximately 751,000 square miles in size . . . a lot of room for Muslim refugees — and, yes, the overwhelming majority of refugees are Muslim. Yet, Saudi Arabia will not take one refugee. Amazing that the “best of people” do not care about the “best of people.”
Celtic Sword says
Jizya is extortion money and does not save non-Muslims from discrimination and abuse in every way. In fact it makes it worse.
Papa Whiskey says
They cannot have weapons.
“The man who attempts, plans, or even wishes to disarm me must be regarded as my mortal enemy. … I, for one, will not be disarmed. Not while I live. Mark that well.”
— Jeff Cooper, father of the modern technique of pistolcraft
albert says
The Democrats already have laws drafted to disarm US citizens, if Hilary ” religion of peace ” Clinton is elected that will happen.
hannah says
westerners are busy helping muslim refugees who hates them and a big percentage of them are future terrorist .
fudge says
to true
Westman says
That Jizya would be about $616 a year or $308 every half-year at the current value of gold. If a man had a wife and 4 children how could he pay $1848 every half year during a war in the disaster that is Syria?
Islam, turning cities into dung pits, one city at a time.
Jay Boo says
The ISIS Bag Lady
Where is Abu Bakr al-(Bag Lady) Baghdadi ?
duh_swami says
‘Gangs of New York’…You pay us and we will protect you from us…
A deal you can’t refuse…
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep.
Islam = Gangsta mentality, sacralised.
The Dhimma system is a “Protection” racket.
And a lot of the time even if you pay up and observe *all* the rules – rules that are deliberately calculated to break the spirit, to make you feel like sh*t – you will STILL get killed, because some Muslim who feels like a little raping and looting and torture and murder fun, to feed the bloodthirsty maw of “allah”, will LIE about you and claim that you or somebody else in your community “insulted mohammed”, etc. And then the howling mob will swarm forth from the mosque and attack the homes and places of worship and businesses of the Dhimmis, and lots of vicious Jihad fun will be had by the Muslims.
albert says
True this happens in the Pisslamic state of Pakistan very often while the authorities stand by and watch. But I must add Western Christian leaders stand by and do nothing as well, shame on them all.
meanwhile back in Europe says
Meanwhile back in Europe, thousands of people with the same belief system as these muslims are streaming into Europe claiming asylum. These people believe Christians are unbelievers deserve death or to pay these taxes (when they get the requisite numbers to enforce it) and despise anyone who aren’t muslim. France has a 20% muslim population and has signed its own death warrant. When confidence in a culture is eroded sufficiently, taxes drop, productive people leave and all that is left are the dregs. France is finished. Germany will be next.
R Cole says
Checkout these incredible scenes as Syrian refugees toss away the food and water given to them by humanitarian services in Hungary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9tTOkAgEAI
Red Cross supplies refused – because of the cross!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM68nGs8PEo
In Germany – food parcels ‘not halal’ – basic supplies such as fruit and vegetables and fruit juices – not to their liking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QwXpRB-Htw
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What’s next – a completely inability to accept that the state is not a religious theocracy.
The idea is that they are supposed to be desperate!
Let them go to Arabia!!
Baucent says
“The statement concludes with the warning, “in case they violate the conditions of this writ, then Islamic State is going to deal with them as they deal with people of war.”
As they say the Devil is in the detail. Either way the Christians are in a dreadful situation. A “violation” of the conditions could be easily contrived and all of a sudden they have no protection. Very similar to the constant state of fear Christians in Pakistan are forced to live, not knowing when an accusation of “blasphemy” will be thrown at them.
robin says
Q; why did not the crusades finish the job they started?
Dr. Divinity says
I S L A M = Intolerable. Sadistic. Lawless. Asinine Manifesto