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The Islamic State forbids remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa

Mar 31, 2016 3:40 pm By Robert Spencer

“Christians were contractually obliged to pay the jizya, or minority tax, which in Islamic Sharia law is the amount of money paid by non-Muslims or ‘dhimmis’ in exchange for protection.”

That is straight from the Qur’an: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice 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)

“Christians living under ISIS are not permitted to build any new churches, religious facilities, nor are they allowed to repair existing ones, cannot publicly show any crosses, pray or recite the Bible in public, are prohibited from any acts of aggression against the Islamic State, are forbidden from stopping the conversion of any Christian to the religion of Islam and cannot sell pork products or alcohol to any Muslims nor consume these products, forbidden in Islam, in public.”

These rules are not inventions of the Islamic State. They are as old as the concept of dhimmitude itself. Compare the Islamic State’s rules to the rules for dhimmis enunciated in Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), a classic manual of Islamic law:

O11.4: The Non-Muslim Poll Tax

The minimum non-Muslim poll tax is one dinar (n: 4.235 grams of gold) per person (A: per year). The maximum is whatever both sides agree upon.

It is collected with leniency and politeness, as are all debts, and is not levied on women, children, or the insane.

O11.5

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.

But no worries! Pope Francis and his henchmen among the Catholic clergy are sure that all this can be cleared up with a spot of “dialogue,” as long as we remain quiet about Muslim persecution of Christians: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” So said Robert McManus, the drunk-driving hit-and-run Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Raqqa Melkite church to Islamic State HQ

“ISIS forbids remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa,” by Lisa Daftari, Foreign Desk, March 30, 2016:

The Islamic State is now preventing the last remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa, Syria, according to activists on the ground.

According to the group Raqqa Is Being Silently Slaughtered, which was founded by a group of journalists turned activists, ISIS has put out a new decree preventing both Christians and Armenians in Raqqa from leaving.

There are approximately 25 Christian families left in Raqqa today, according to RIBSS.

Raqqa, now the de-facto Syrian headquarters of the Islamic State, fell into rebel control in March 2013 in a battle between insurgents led by the Islamist jihadi group Al Nusra and Bashar Al Assad’s regime. Raqqa then became the first provincial capital under rebel control in the war.

“The suffering of Christians began with ISIS control of Raqqa,” RIBSS said on its website about the treatment of Christians under the jihadi militant group.

“ISIS looks at Christians as infidels loyal to the West more than their loyalty to their homeland which they live.”…

In areas controlled by ISIS, Christians have been given three options—to convert to Islam, to pay a minority tax or jizya or to face death….

In 2014, ISIS published a list of seven restrictions that Christians in Raqqa had to follow in order to live under Caliphate rule.

In it, Christians were contractually obliged to pay the jizya, or minority tax, which in Islamic Sharia law is the amount of money paid by non-Muslims or “dhimmis” in exchange for protection.

The jizya was last enforced under the Ottoman Empire and since, only brought back by the Islamic State.

In addition, Christians living under ISIS are not permitted to build any new churches, religious facilities, nor are they allowed to repair existing ones, cannot publicly show any crosses, pray or recite the Bible in public, are prohibited from any acts of aggression against the Islamic State, are forbidden from stopping the conversion of any Christian to the religion of Islam and cannot sell pork products or alcohol to any Muslims nor consume these products, forbidden in Islam, in public.

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    Good move to retain Infidel meat in the collateral damage population.

  2. Angemon says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    The Islamic State is now preventing the last remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa, Syria, according to activists on the ground.

    They need them human shields and hostages…

    • Christianblood says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 5:42 pm

      Angemon posted

      (…They need them human shields and hostages…)

      True…and the few of those Christians who reached the US soil were thrown into jail by the US government: http://www.weaselzippers.us/228817-chaldean-christians/

      • Sandra Lee Smith says

        Apr 1, 2016 at 9:10 pm

        Yep, and most have since been deported again, thanks to the Muslim usurper in thief in our WH!

      • Angemon says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 4:00 pm

        Maybe they should seek asylum in Russia? Oh, right, Putin needs them in Syria, fearing for their lives, so he can pretend to be helping them.

  3. Zeke Zike says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    In a generation or two ISIS will need young Christian boys for Janissaries.

    In the Ottoman Empire, once a year the Turks would ride into the Christian villages and “recruit” young teens for their elite military troops. Of course the “kids” were abused until they converted to Islam and being of European blood, would usually end up in the very front of the action, once trained.

    They were known as Janissaries.

  4. miriamrove says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    Hostage taking is a pillar of Islam. m

  5. Papa Whiskey says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    Another rule imposed upon the dhimmi is this one:

    “We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our- persons.”

    http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.asp

  6. Jeff says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    In memory of our slain Christian brothers and sisters who have been martyred for Christ…
    Having said that, If we had any leadership in this country whatsoever, we would send in our soldiers to liberate the few remaining Christian families and then raise Raqqa to the ground. The cult of muhammed has imposed itself for 1400 years too long and needs to be destroyed once and for all in a grand crusade for the ages. I pray that the United States turns back from its disgraceful ways and becomes a righteous nation on the right side of our Lord.

  7. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 12:45 am

    And, meanwhile, a couple of Useful Idiots are whining and complaining about how Australia is being mean to the poor lil muswims because we are showing some very small signs of preference toward the Christians among the Syrian refugees we have agreed to take it

    He claims that the Christians are not specially vulnerable…PFFFFFFT.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-31/australia-'cherry-picking'-syrian-refugees-says-refugee-council/7289918
    Refugee Council accuses Australia of ‘cherry picking’ Syrian refugees for resettlement

    “I don’t think anyone expected that the program would be weighted as strongly towards Iraqi Christians as it now appears,” Paul Power, the council’s CEO, told 7.30.’

    this idjit thinks we are being MEAN TO THE POOR POOR MUSLIMs, by rescuing those they are assiduously and viciously persecuting…

    and yet another moral idjit who’s been swallowing one too many mohammedan sob stories and sticking his fingers in his ears when the screams of the christians get too loud…

    ‘Head of the UN refugee agency in Jordan, Australian Andrew Harper, showed Immigration Minister Peter Dutton around the camps last September.
    Mr Harper has now openly criticised Australia’s approach.
    “The concern that we have is that these may not be necessarily the most vulnerable people,” he said.’;

    REALLY ….

    These two creeps have got to be in the pay of the Muslims, or moral imbeciles, or just plain STUPID in light of the torrent of information pouring out of Syria for the past few years – and out of Iraq for longer – that unequivocally supports the clear conclusion that the Christians, SPECIFICALLY, QUA CHRISTIANS, are being targeted [along with the other even smaller minority non-muslim groups such as yazidis and Mandaeans].

    Read the article, read the drivel of the idjits who want to shove the christians to the back of the queue and give the Sunni MUSLIMS [good grief] most if not all of the places…and then be infuriated… and, if Australian, redouble your letter-writing to politicians on behalf of the NON-MUSLIM minorities, DEMANDING loud and clear that ALL our precious golden tickets-to-australis be given to those who ARE manifestly most endangered… and are not to be found in numbers in the UN camps for the simple and sufficient reason that the MUSLIMS, who dominate those camps numerically and politically, have ATTACKED THEM AND DRIVEN THEM OUT, so that they are forced to try to survive on their own, without UN assistance that is being hogged by the damn mohammedans.

    Mohammedans who, guaranteed, will include those who will in future, or their children, do us harm; whereas Christians, Yazidis and Mandaeans will NOT.

  8. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 12:53 am

    The whole Jizya/ DHIMMA system is NOTHING but an extortion racket.

    It is also a system of Abuse, because its aim is not only to squeeze money and other goodies out of the victims, but to kill the soul… to reduce the Dhimmis to a condition where – like a slave-girl in a brothel run by S and M fiends – they will submit and submit and submit unresistingly to the most atrocious treatment; where they become … a thing, a plaything, to be kicked, raped, tormented, for fun and profit, and never, never even cry or complain.

    Read mark Durie’s book about the Dhimma system – the third choice, islam, dhimmitude and freedom – and you will know just how horrible the Dhimma is, both in what it does and in its intent.

  9. Mirren10 says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:10 am

    “I don’t think anyone expected that the program would be weighted as strongly towards Iraqi Christians as it now appears,” Paul Power, the council’s CEO, told 7.30.’

    *Excellent* !

  10. Richie says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    a shame there is no Christian army made up of Christians from around the globe to beat back these Muslims invaders, make no mistake, this IS a religious war

  11. Hermes says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Yes, not penalized for drunkenness.

    I am reading Reliance of the Traveller by al-Misri right now. According to an audio lecture I listened to last week by N.H.M. Keller, the translator and editor to the English version, Muslims may not even *criticize* non-Muslims for drunkenness, because indulgence in, let alone abstinence from, alcoholic beverages is not required of Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Sabians etc (People of the Book, i.e. monotheists with scriptures in the Abrahamic tradition of prophets). But does this exemption include the *public* drunkenness of dhimmis? The author of this Jihad Watch news piece did not say.

    I am not defending dhimmitude. But, I am curious – can a non-Muslim who has paid the extortion tax and is following all the restrictions, relying on the ‘mercy’ of the (literally or figuratively) Islamic state , drink in private and then stumble into the street of Ottoman Istanbul or present-day ISIS territory inebriated and not be punished? As I don’t drink and i would rather not visit Raqqa as an experiment I cannot put this to the test. Let me check my copy of ‘Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper’. It is a big text. But at least there is an index and this version is well-organized.

    Hmmm, when I arranged a truck rental in an Asian nation where the official religion is Islam, I was surprised to hear from the young firebrand Muslim entrepreneur with a taste of semi-pornographic rock music, that the major issue he had with his own more or less secular government, was not some major economic or human rights issue but simply because he believed that one large supermarket chain was selling alcohol to Muslims. I believe that as a rule he was incorrect. However, I found it curious that he got his balls in a knot over such a petty thing. Can you imagine European Catholics getting angry at restaurants in 1955 serving meat instead of fish on Fridays? Oh my god, the government might collapse!

    Since there are those who claim that ISIS is not ‘real Islam’, I would like to see a debate between ISIS and’moderate Muslims. But then the losers would have to be executed. Because we know who would win. And legitimately so.

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