Re: The Prophet and “Jihad”
time to stop reading concepts out of Qaeda and ISIS manuals…manuals of destruction and barbarity…not a single sane Islamic scholar of today is willing to back what ISIS is doing…even their chief financers and backers support them from behind the veil and burqas because their acts are so out-right evil…
Jizya in its actual form was tax that groups, tribes, towns had to pay if they were to come under territory under Islamic administration of time…so civil obligations of maintenance and defense of those ppl & areas became duty for Islamic govt…if u research then you can find that Muslim subjects too individually paid tax to the govt which was greater than the amount of Jizya/tax non Muslims paid as a group…
“Christian historians like Gustav Le Bon and George Zaydun have discussed this issue in detail. Will Durant in Vol. II of his series “The History of Civilization” has also discussed the Islamic jiziyah and tells us that the Islamic jiziyah was so trivial an amount that it was even less than the taxes the Muslims themselves paid and thus there was never any question of exaction.”
Source of the above quote…Jihad The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Quran by Shaheed Muttahiri