“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
The jizya is a tax levied against non-Muslims for the privilege of being able to continue to live as non-Muslims in an Islamic state. With it come numerous humiliating and discriminatory regulations. Many Islamic apologists claim that properly understood, the Qur’an is only directing that it be collected from non-Muslims of Muhammad’s time. They are lying. This is the reality.
“New Information Emerges From 2 Christian Murders,” International Christian Concern, May 2, 2021:
05/02/2021 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – Two recent events as reported by ICC have shown the continued persecution and potential violence that Christians in Egypt face. Now, new information on the events reveals deeper levels. On April 17, ISIS published a video of the execution of Coptic Christian Nabil Habshi who was kidnapped last November. On April 3, a Coptic woman and her six-year-old son were murdered by their tok-tok driver.
Nabil Habshi was kidnapped on November 7, 2020 and five days later one of his sons, Peter, received a call demanding approximately $127,550 USD, not as hostage ransom but as a jizya tax from the Copts in their home village. Jizya tax has been understood to be a fee paid by non-Muslims to Muslim rulers in recognition and subjection to the state and its laws, in return for relative permission to practice their faith. Forty-eight hours later, the kidnappers more than doubled the tax. Nabil’s son and the community were unable to gather the funds demanded. At this, ISIS threatened to kill two of the brothers and their father Nabil. Peter spoke to his father for the last time at the end of February. Even now though the family continues to face death threats….
The murder of Maryam Sa’ad, the Coptic Christian killed in early April, has confessed to the killing of her as well as her six-year-old son. The killer, Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, was caught on April 5 and remains in police custody.
Eye witness accounts relay that al-Harami was a neighbor to Maryam and her husband Ekram and often drove the family around. In the confessed premeditated murder, al-Harami followed Maryam and her children who took another tok-tok, overcame their vehicle and then stopped them. Following a verbal altercation, the driver took out a butcher’s knife and stroke [sic] Maryam three times on her head and back. He then hit the young boy on the head. Both reportedly died on the spot.
As reported by ICC, “Egypt’s human rights record has greatly worsened over recent years. Whereas during the early 2010s terrorists such as ISIS were the main perpetrators of Christian persecution, today the main perpetrator is the government. Dissent is silenced, human rights activism is suppressed, and truth about violations is clouded.”…
gregbeetham says
The region was historically steeped in banditry and lawlessness, the trick for survival was to belong to the largest band of bandits and this is the culture that spawned Islam.
Is it any wonder they invented a Satanic cult that incorporates banditry as part of the doctrine?
gravenimage says
Egypt was actually pretty civilized before Islam.
Infidel says
And that includes the pre-Ptolemaic rule of the Pharaohs, and the Pesejet religion
Chrissie01 says
That is the arabic spring, y’all know!
Keith O says
More barbarity from a group that thinks they have a divine right to behave in any manner they see fit.
It would be nice to see the mudslimes on the receiving side of the equation every now and again, just as a reminder of what the suffering they are dishing out to others feels like.
gravenimage says
Egypt: Money ISIS demanded for kidnapped Christian was not ransom, but jizya from Christians in his village
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Horrifying, but this does not surprise.
More:
Forty-eight hours later, the kidnappers more than doubled the tax. Nabil’s son and the community were unable to gather the funds demanded. At this, ISIS threatened to kill two of the brothers and their father Nabil.
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Also exremely common–Muslim lidnappers demand a ransom that they *know* the victim’s loved ones will not be able to pay–in some cases the ransom has exceeded the entire family’s annual income.
Clearly, the point of this is just to instill unearned guilt in the victim’s loved ones. In same cases the victim has already been murdered.
God, I hate Islam.