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Christians in Baghdad and Mosul are being ordered to pay jizya, the ancient head tax Muslim rulers impose on non-Muslims for the right to follow their religion. That would be another reason why Iraqi Christians are fleeing to the northern part of the country.
Asia News has the story.
“Non Muslim subjects must pay a contribution to the jihad if they wish to be allowed to live and practise their faith in Iraq”. These orders are being imposed on the Christians of Mosul and Baghdad by Islamic militias. Besides these threats of extortion, thousands of non Muslims are also being forced to leave their homes by letters assigning their house to Muslim citizens. The initiative is part of the general campaign to Islamafy the entire country, which begun with the imposition of the veil on all women. The website Ankawa.com was the first to carry news of this latest development; the website has eye witness accounts of Iraqi refugees in Erbil, in the semi autonomous region of Kurdistan.
The fourth anniversary of the US military’s arrival in Baghdad, March 20th 2003, brings with it little improvement in the conditions of the ever decreasing Christian community. Bomb attacks, kidnappings and threats continue to mark the daily existence of those few who so far have not been able to leave. The latest sign of the increasingly worrying situation is news that the community is now being forced to pay the jizya, a “poll tax” requested from non Muslims according to the Koran, guaranteeing “protection” form the Islamic umma. The tax was once extracted by the Ottoman Empire until its collapse in 1918, but now Baghdad and Mosul’s Mosques have ordered it be put in place again, “without revealing it to authorities”.
In order to shield the protection racket from Iraqi authorities, the "contribution" is paid as a donation to the mosques.
Islamic law teaches that Qur'an 9:29 mandates imposition of the jizya on non-Muslims.
The Asia News report does not mention any Qur’an passages authorising theft of houses from non-Muslims.
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