Islam lies and calls for lying to infidels and then uses the sword on them when they don't convert or pay tribute. Your lying by trying to hide this. You think non muslims are uneducated--we aren't. ISLAM is spread by the sword......it's a warlord religion that uses terror and rape and murder to spread it. S
Social welfare system built in? Oh you mean where the widows and kids beg on the street because women aren't allowed to do much else without a man around. AND BTW, why is the west's welfare so abused by muslims?
The jizya is symbolic tribute, and is usually less than the zakat.
And no, Islam does not "call for lying to infidels".
Islam only allows for lying when these are lives at stake.
It is a warlord religion only in that there were only warlords when Mohammad was trying to create a system of survival.
It is not spread by murder, rape, or terror, and in fact Moslems do not want to spread it at all.
Instead they would prefer to remain isolated from those who are corrupted.
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The classical jurists have defined two types of Jizyah: The Jizyah of Conciliation (al-Sulhiyyah) and the Jizyah of Exaction (al-`Anwiyyah).
The first type is when a Kafir nation signs a treaty with the Muslim nation without going to war. The magnitude of this Jizyah is whatever both sides agree to.
The second is the type of Jizyah that is exacted from the citizens of a formerly kafir land, after their previous administration has been defeated in war. It is exacted from all the free, sane, adult men who are able to pay it. The monks living in their monasteries or those too poor to pay it are exempt. There are differing positions regarding its magnitude, the two main positions (Hanafi & Maliki) are as follows:
The Hanafi position is that the magnitude varies with the level of wealth of the Dhimmi. For the rich it is 48 dirhams (silver coins) yearly, for the middle classes 24 dirhams and for the poor [who are able to pay] 12 dirhams.
The Maliki position is that the Jizyah is 4 dinars (gold coins) yearly for the people who have gold and 40 dirhams for those who have silver.
The other two positions are the Shafi’i who hold that the minimum amount of Jizyah is one pure gold dinar annually and it is upon the discretion of the Imam (Muslim leader) to exact more if he sees fit and the Hanbali who say that it’s wholly upon the discretion of the Imam and he can lower & raise it as he sees fit depending on the ability of the Ahl al Dhimmah to pay
Edit: As for the question of whether the Jizyah is lower or higher than Zakah, as is clear, because of the difference in the way they’re levied, you can’t definitely say which one is higher; depending on the circumstances the Zakah of a Muslim citizen could be higher than the Jizyah paid by a Dhimmi or it could be the other way around.
It must be noted that Zakah is a religious obligation of a Muslim. While payment of Zakah on cattle, the grain harvest (tenth or twentieth part) etc. to the leader does signify acceptance of him as a legitimate Muslim authority, however it’s primarily an obligation to God. If there’s no sultan to collect Zakah, it’s still upon a Muslim to give the amount owed to a legitimate beneficiary. Jizyah on the other hand, is levied on a person or nation which does not accept what God has obligated but pays an amount to show their acceptance of the Muslim authorities.
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Why not to make a big car park there and some hot dog inns in the very old heathen place Kaaba? But I'm indeed really "stupid". When US-American soldiers in the Iraq drove against a corner of a historical building in Babylon and damaged it I was as angry about this as about the death of much too many Iraqis because of this totally wrong and counterproductive war from George W. Bush for the Saudi Arabian Wahabism - the prototpe of all "Islamic State" movements. It's one thing to know that life is more valueable than istorical buildings - it's another thing to find out what makes oneself angry.
