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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are we going through all this again?

The Jizya tax in Islam is for nonMuslims who are under the control and protection of Muslims. They are exempt from any military duty. They do not have to fight during war. Thus, they are taxed because Muslims are obligated to protect them.

The Quranic ayahs or passages that order killing are only in self defense. The reasons radical Muslims misinterpret these ayahs or passages is because they believe any country that interferes with a Muslim country, politically or otherwise, is doing so with the intention of either corrupting Islam or to help create a more secular nation there. Clearly the radicals do not interpret their own religion properly and there is a complete lack of guidance for them.

It's one thing to not understand these passages and seek clarification, but let's not twist the meaning of them. [/quote]

Christians and Jews (this isn't available to other non-Muslims) pay jizya "so that they consider themselves subdued." The language is very clear and this isn't some sort of generous draft exemption for other religious groups that, anyway, the early Muslims didn't trust to fight on their side. Muslims have other legal advantages over non-Muslims. As one example, in the case of divorce, the children always go to the Muslim parent.

As posted earlier on the thread, Quranic language like "making trouble in the land" being deserving of violence is indeed wide open to many different interpretations. Something like "corrupting Islam" actually seems like a pretty big deal. There's no specificity in the language about "kill them for this corruption of Islam but not for that corruption of Islam."  Thus you see a wide range of opinions about what deserves a violent response.[/quote]

I am not familiar with this be subdued language--perhaps you could link to the source.  What I do know is that large communities of Christians and Jews in the Middle East felt it was a fair enough deal to stay and thrive for well over a thousand years. [/quote]

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