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Jizya amount has never been fixed to a percentage. It has always been up to the rulers of a particular community. Thus, the claim that it is less that zakat (fixed at 2.5%) is nonsense.

For those of you fixated on the amount, read the rest of the line "so that they consider themselves subdued."  Jizya is the symbol of submission to the Islamic state. Not alliance, not friendship, not affection. Submission.

I should also point out that rulers throughout history have differed on much humiliation they wanted to express toward their non-Muslim citizens.  The Ottoman empire has traditionally been very tolerant of non-Muslims, for instance.[/quote]

I'm not the PP who wrote about jizya and zakat above. But it seems pretty clear that the tax paid by non-Muslims (Jizya) was often greater than the tax paid by Muslims (zakat, a 2.5% tax). For example, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya) says there's some debate on this, but

"Other scholars[61][62][63] claim the tax rates and amounts were fixed and strictly implemented. The rate of jizya and Kharaj tax, head tax and land tax respectively, exceeded 20% for all non-Muslims, and payable by new moon. In the western Islamic states, for dhimmis who were Christians and Jews of Egypt and Morocco, these taxes were often graded into three levels with minimum rate being 20% of all estimated assets and any sales.[64] The highest rates ranged from 33% to 80% of all annual farm produce on land inside the Islamic empire.[65] In the eastern Islamic states, for dhimmis who were Hindus and Jains, the tax structure were similar, with non-Muslims paying jizya and Kharaj tax rate at least twice the zakat tax rate paid by Muslims. The discriminatory and high tax rates led to mass civil protests of 1679 in India, these protests were crushed by Aurangzeb.[55][66]"

ISIS is now imposing jizya (poll tax) on non-Muslims in Mosul:  http://wwrn.org/articles/42778/. The poll tax of $250 seems pretty crushing in Mosul's devasted economy where few businesses are operating.

Jizya seems like a pretty significant economic advantage Muslims have over non-Muslims. [/quote]

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