Re: Jizya tax - What was the logic?
Peace muqawwee123
It may well be the case … some may consider not having “freedom of speech” yet “institutional dawah” as intolerance also … but no one can argue that is the natural bias of a Shari’ah …
Muslims aught to be good to each other, but also good to non-Muslims “as a tool for conversion” - It is not to say that the jizyah is unnecessary exploitation … because compared to the 40% tax on income of today’s standards - a small tax on savings rather than income is far fairer even if it is up to 50% tax on savings … It is because income is not touched until savings are made.
Is it intolerance? I don’t think so … especially when you start to weigh out actual figures … Is it intolerance to charge international students much more for their studies than local students? Is it discrimination to have people pass an English test to let them in the country?
Or perhaps you can consider jizyah in another context … Assume there was a war and then there were slaves … prisoners of war … they pay a ransom to be set free … or they are allowed freedom in the country so long as they pay their ransom money in installments … consider that a jizyah … when it comes to logic there are many ways to look at it. I don’t feel any of them even if they give Islam a preference is unfair. It would be unfair if the state made them pay and didn’t let them leave … but people were free to leave that state.