The headline to this Breitbart piece says that al-Maqdisi was addressing Egypt’s Christians, but actually he says: “Today, the Islamic state rules over vast areas in Syria and Iraq despite the campaign against it by the crusader infidels. Christians carry on living in those regions over which the Islamic state governs. No one has expelled them. They were asked to choose between paying a protection tax, the Jizya, or moving out. We respect their decisions. If they choose to stay and refuse to pay the Jizyah, they are sentenced according to Islamic law, but are not executed.”
So he seems to be referring only to the Christians in Iraq and Syria, but of course what he says is in full accord with the Qur’an: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has 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)
“EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – Islamist To Egypt’s Christians: Pay ‘Protection’ Tax Or Move Out,” by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked, Breitbart, November 30, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
…Breitbart Jerusalem discussed Tawadros’ visit to Israel and the reports of Christian persecution in Egypt with Abu Ubaidah al-Maqdisi, a senior member the Mujahedeen Shura Council, a Salafi group based in the Egyptian Sinai. The Council previously took responsibility for the firing of rockets from Sinai to the Israeli southern resort city of Eilat.
During the interview, Maqdisi referred to the Coptic leader as “the Christian crusader Tawadros” and claimed Tawadros and the “Zionist enemy” are “part of the ongoing conspiracy against Islam and Muslims.”
“They are a part of the same crusader campaign against Islam and Muslims anywhere in the world and they are part of the alignment which helps the Arab dictators wage war against the Islamists in their countries, the same dictators whose purpose is to help the Crusaders in ruling over the Islamic states.”
Asked about the rampant reports of Christian persecution in Egypt, Maqdisi replied:
“This is obviously a lie. We know that Christians leaders, especially in the U.S., are attempting to spread this propaganda, but this is false propaganda.
The investigations regarding the bombing of the church in Alexandria, the evening of [President Hosni] Mubarak’s ousting in 2011, they proved that this was an attack timed by the Egyptian secretary of defense in order to justify the continuation of the emergency edicts and to grant more authority and influence to Egypt’s Christians at the expense of the Muslims.
These attacks were meant to justify the war waged by Mubarak’s regime on our brothers, the Mujahedeen.”
Maqdadis [sic] vowed, “We shall not allow the Christians and the Crusaders and the Infidels to rule our country. We are at a battle to impose the Islamic caliphate on the whole world. Eventually, Islam will be the only victor in the world.”
And what of the fate of Christians living in a future Caliphate?
Maqdidis [sic] stated dryly:
“Today, the Islamic state rules over vast areas in Syria and Iraq despite the campaign against it by the crusader infidels. Christians carry on living in those regions over which the Islamic state governs. No one has expelled them.
“They were asked to choose between paying a protection tax, the Jizya, or moving out. We respect their decisions. If they choose to stay and refuse to pay the Jizyah, they are sentenced according to Islamic law, but are not executed.”

Gary says
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has 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)
Makes perfect sense doesn’t it…. Why believe in “The religion of Truth” when you can follow and believe the father of all lies?!
Muslims are being duped!
Satan is drawing as many as he can straight into hell. Why? Because he knows his time is short. Very short.
The return of Christ Jesus is eminent.
john spielman says
excellent comment
Greyhound Fancier says
Come, Lord Jesus!
EYESOPEN says
Amen!
Dr. Divinity says
“Fight those who believe not in Allan or the last day
This statement alone should condemn Islam ….Oh I do believe in the last day when Jesus returns and place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left…..not only will the islamist be with the goats but I’m afraid there will be many more goats…Oh world…we need more Christians…..not more islamist…As Gary says above time is running out…The last days are upon us. Oh muslim Oh world..Come to Jesus before it is too. Late.
THINK ON THIS…Christianity has kept us from becoming barbarians.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Wait – they have the option to MOVE? If they don’t pay the jizya, they punishment is not execution???
This guy must be some sort of “moderate”….
mortimer says
…the option of ‘moving’ means leaving every possession behind for Muslims to seize.
Shane says
Does the religion of Islam remind anyone else of the Mafia? Forcing infidels to pay the jizya is like the Mafia forcing business owners to pay protection money from the Mafia. Muhammad also reminds me of a Mafia Don when he asks his followers to do something about one of his critics.
Marken says
Of course, the Muslim conquest of Sicily lasted 65 years so the Mafia developed using the Islamic pattern.
Ernie says
It’s time muslims in Europe are going to pay an extra tax for being muslim . Let’s treat them the way they treat us ( kufaar ) . If muslims don’t pay this tax , they will be expelled to the dar al-islam , forever . We must teach them with an iron fist . Why? Because this is the only language they understand : FORCE , and NO MERCY for them ! They must feel humiliated , subdued . Their “cadre de referance ” makes this a MUST . I see no other solution if we want to live free in the Western World .
Bradley Lexvold says
While this seems right on the face of it, lets just ban Islam from the planet. 1. Destroy shrine in Mecca. 2. Destroy well 12th Imam is to come out of. 3. Destroy city of their prophecy. Nothing else will work. It isn’t right to let people be deluded about this religion. Cut off Satan’s snake head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKRgv9r61jo
Dr. Divinity says
Are there any powers that be that have the guts to declare islam what it is….a ….CULT… and then destroy it by outlawing it. No “RELIGION”. teavhes what islam teaches……MURDER !!! and isn’t MURDER illegal???? They are treating “illegal” as a sick bird….an “ill eagle”!!!
gravenimage says
“They were asked to choose between paying a protection tax, the Jizya, or moving out. We respect their decisions. If they choose to stay and refuse to pay the Jizyah, they are sentenced according to Islamic law, but are not executed.”
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What does this mean? According to Hanafi scholar Abu Yusef (d.798) any dhimmi who failed to pay Jizya for whatever reason should be seized and imprisoned until the Jizya demanded be paid in full. There is no appeal.
Given that prisoners in traditional Muslim prisons in places like Afghanistan are not fed, the claim that such victims “are not executed” is pretty much a moot point.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Proposal
We have about 25 million illegal aliens. All the candidates want to reward them for their criminality by making them citizens and putting them on benefits. This is good, but could be better. I propose that we throw all the Amerind aboriginals out and replace them with 12.5 million “Syrian” “refugees” along with 12.5 Christian and Yazidi personal slaves, who’ll be allowed to come to America as slavery as a special exception to Sharia, which allows Moslems to have slaves, especially Infidel slaves. This would be a great plan, since what we heard about Moslem entrepreneurialism from Prez Barack Hussein during his famous apology speech in Cairo years back. Move them all to Detroit. The Moslems legal immigrants could all go out and start Internet companies, their slaves could stay home rebuilding the broken down homes into which they’ve migrated, thereby rejuvenating a city broken by decades of misplaced globo-socialism.
john spielman says
this extortion (jizya) tax makes islam and the Italian mafia and drug cartels of Mexico all the same!
? says
And people say the Jews are the ones who only care about money…
Bradley Lexvold says
The Italian mafia and Mexican drug cartels aren’t putting on suicide vests and screaming, ” Mary, Mother of God, full of Grace.” before they blow themselves up. My $.02, maybe worth what you paid for it.
Laura says
Excellent post 🙂 No one in the media, to my knowledge, makes this wonderful connection when defending the followers of the religion of perpetual outrage when comparing islam to all those followers of Yeshua.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
So, the Christians must pay the Jizya or split. Meanwhile, the “refugees” are all Moslems. This is a formula for victory. You guess for whom.
don vito says
We have moslems in our country, some came as immigrants, some as refugees, some as students on visas and stayed after their visas expired, some came as illegal aliens, some came as business people. Now that they are here, does that mean that this nation is now their nation? Does that mean we, kufrs, have to convert, pay the jiyzah, or leave? Does that mean that moslems can imprison kufrs? Does that mean that moslems can kill kufrs? All because they crossed our border?
mortimer says
Humiliation and Jizyah. The purpose of the jizyah is the infliction of humiliation. For Shaybani, “humiliation is the payment of the poll tax (jizya).” As ibn Kathir explained, the phrase “and feel themselves subdued” from Koran 9:29 means that those who submit are “miserable, disgraced and humiliated” and should therefore be treated with “continual humiliation, degradation and disgrace.” In fact, even al-Ghazali, the famed Sufi philosopher (and pre-eminent Shafi’i authority) emphasized the calculated role humiliation plays when imposing the jizyah tax:
‘The dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle…Jews, Christians and Majians must pay the jizya …on offering up the jizya, the dhimmi must hang his head while the official takes hold of his beard and hits the dhimmi on the protuberant bone beneath his ear (i.e. the mandible) …The dhimmi may not ride an elegant horse or mule; he may ride a donkey only if the sddle-work is of wood. He may not walk on the good part of the road. They – the dhimmis – have to wear an identifying patch on their clothing even women, and even in the public baths…dhimmis must hold their tongue.
Muslims see their receiving large numbers of refugees not as ‘CHRISTIAN CHARITY’ (which they totally do not understand) to a forced payment of JIZYAH forced upon them by ALLAH triumphantly!
The West will not be thanked. Muslims own the earth and are merely taking from the dirty kafirs what the Muslims deserve to have.
Greyhound Fancier says
Sure Muslims own the earth…the god of this world is Satan.
Raja says
Mortimer,
Another informative post from you, Thank you.
It seems the majority of Muslims have the tendencies of leach and so they ALWAYS have the excuse that EVERY BOOTY is bestowed by allah the cruel, lying and murderous god.
Wellington says
Sura 9:29 is just one more verse from the Koran which indicates how disgusting and repulsive Islam truly is. Many such verses could be found——–a whole bevy of them. Oh yeah, sickening stuff to be sure, but very Islamic.
John McCain, Editors of The New York Times, Pope Francis, David Cameron, et al., do you know this shit exists in the Koran? If not, why not? If so, then why the continued defense of Islam? You are all out of excuses.
Christopher H says
Nailed it! Add in all the presidential candidates – Trump, you do NOT have “Muslim friends” – you have at Best people using you until you are no longer useful to them and their cause. Period, as they are forbidden to friend you in their hearts.
Jeremiah says
Yizya may not be the mark of the Beast. Nevertheless, Christians need to unite for a massive effort to save Christians from Islam. Christians are the best workers we can get for our failing economies. We must get organized while there is time.
Matthieu Baudin says
Equality is an alien concept for Traditional Islam; Submission seems to have always assumed it’s place.
Angemon says
Huh huh. It’s not like it’s confirmed by Egyptian Christians… oh, wait…
Seriously, was anyone expecting a different answer? “It’s all lies made to denigrate islam”. How predictable…
Jerry says
Maybe the Qur’an and the Hadith are lies invented in order
to denigrate Mohammad and the Islam
or, simply,
The Islam is a lie invented to denigrate Islam.
There was never a true prophet called Mohammad.
There was only a Plunderer for Profit: a marauding
desert warlord, caravan robber, murderer, rapist,
paedophile and pederast who recruited gullible
but greedy and dishonest Arabs into his criminal
gang with the false promise of non-existent seventy
two virgins in a fals and non-existent paradise.
But the prophecy in Genesis 16:12, dated thousands
of years before the birth of Mohammad is clearly
fulfilled to this day:
“And he will be a wild man, his hand will be against
every man, and every man’s hand against him”
Peggy says
Maqdadis [sic] vowed, “We shall not allow the Christians and the Crusaders and the Infidels to rule our country. We are at a battle to impose the Islamic caliphate on the whole world. Eventually, Islam will be the only victor in the world
=================================
But you want to rule our countgries, you miserable SOB.
How about we force Muslims to pay tax to us in our countries and see how they would like it. If we don’t then we are really, really messed up. It’s time we treat them like they treat us. If they don’t like it, they can go to a “nicer” country.
I wish we had leaders with guts or that can’t be brought.
GKP says
Now the time has come to free Humanity from Islam
The multicultural new race (except Islam) should know that continuity will be destroyed sooner or later.
Islam provide only three option to the minority under their rule either they give jazia tax or convert to Islam or face execution.
I think Europeans government either stop entering Muslim refugees or make convert them to Christian before giving them citizenship.
Raja says
GKP,
Lying is encouraged in Islam so there is no point in believing that the refugees have left Islam.
Islam is so “SUPERIOR THAN OTHERS” that it never be reformed or tamed. It is perhaps the best self propelled war machine ever discovered by man (with the help of devil)
albert says
The Christians have nowhere to go, European and US politicians don’t care about the persecution of the Christians, they will leave them to die at the hands of the ” religion of peace ” and waiting for jesus ? They’ll still be waiting when their heads are lying in the sand, meanwhile what will their US brethren do ? Why they’ll demonstrate against gays in the military or go and shoot some people at an abortion clinic. Reminds me of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Best get ready for an Islamic world order.
Karin Klose says
forget climate change etc etc.. the biggest threat to mankind is Muslimism/islamism. Pollution will not kill us, but they want to eradicate all who wont bow down to their very warped ideology, which is satanic.
Rdlake says
Each time an Unbathed raghead cleric publicly makes outrageous statements, opposing governments should put them out of their misery. It’s a sure bet that they’ll be less outspoken.