The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) followed today’s Friday prayers with a release of new documents in Mosul, ordering the city’s Christian community to either agree to convert to Islam or to pay the jizya tax, saying they face “death as a last resort.”
At one point Mosul had a fairly large Christian minority, estimated at over 3,000. Most are believed to have fled when ISIS first invaded, however, and it isn’t clear how many are even left.
The move appears to be in line with what ISIS did in Raqqa, where the Christian community entered into a dhimmitude agreement involving the payment of gold dinars (smaller amounts for poorer families) to remain Christian under ISIS rule.
Jizya was original intended as an equivalent to the Zakat payments Muslims are required to make, during an era when those charitable contributions were largely managed by Muslim states. The idea was that jizya would prevent the cost of the Zakat being a conversion obstacle. In addition to getting legal permission to continue to practice the non-state religion, jizya payers are traditionally also exempt from conscription.
Many Iraqi Christians, those who didn’t flee during the bloody US occupation, have fled northward, into Iraqi Kurdistan, and it is unclear how many remain at all in ISIS territory. In Syria, however, Christians have largely not been able to flee so easily, and ISIS retains a significant Christian minority in Raqqa and Deir Ezzor.
According to those who helped ISIS to be what it is today, that's democracy. I highly suggest for these highly valued democrats by democrats is for Victoria Nuland and Barack Hussein Obama to talk to these barbarians and savages to see if us Democratic Party can have a office next to ISIS in Tikrit or next to Barzani in Kurdistan for consultation proposes only and in case of needing new employe Hillary Clinton, McCain or Berzinski is always there to help, but off course they charge 200-250000$ just for lying.
Islam the so called religion of peace right? Wrong. Forcing Christians to convert or get killed is peaceful? What Christian country around the world forces Muslims to convert to Christianity? None. They are welcome to enter any Christian majority country and have the same equal rights. Look at the quran and muhammed, he told his people to fight and kill the non believers wherever you find them. Read surrah 9:29 in the “so called” holy book of Quran. Doesn’t sound like a religion of peace at all, in fact I think it’s totally the opposite. How many wives did Muhammed have? I lost count after his 7th wife. And remember Aisha 6 year old he married and had sex with her at when she turned 9. It goes on and on…. It’s all in the Quran read it Muslims and discover the truth. Don’t let your imams fool you into believing Islam is peace. Islam means submission.
See how nice Saddam was allowing all those Christians to thrive and prosper?
Christians killed a lot of people for much less. Christians forced American Indians to wear non native clothing, study the bible, find jesus, change their names, and be adopted by flabby white people. Religions go too far out in left field sometimes with dire consequences.
Islam is at heart an intolerant ideology, openly hostile to any other faith.
All religion is like injecting heroine. The emperor and the bishops made the bible 333 AD in Constantinople. Half of America believe that we have been here for only 6,000 years, no more. Even educated people may claim that we have been here only 6,000 years. Religion makes people stupid. In the case of ISIS religion makes them insane. Like the Mormons who claim Jesus visited America!
Religious is a tool created by man and for mankind to rule, to collect taxes for the rich, to obligate mankind to kill and murder for religion, to create a non existing social justice and for poor to obey the law of and by the rich, religious is used by Barack Hussein Obama and people like him to divide nations which is part of rich people social politics to profit their corporations, corporations that are in oil, banking and gas business.
These savages and barbarians that are called ISIS are the creation of USG, Saudis, Qatari and in general western "civilization" in cooperation with an stone aged monarchism whom are in oil, gas and banking business, whom are the new force in dictating the weakened western policies and then lie about it, saying: all is about democracy?