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To: i-node who wrote (635277)	11/9/2011 1:50:12 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583492

Here is what the tax on Christmas trees is all about Jizya Discrimination portal v · d · e Under Islamic law, jizya or jizyah ( Arabic: ????? gizyah IPA: [d?izja]; Ottoman Turkish: cizye; both derived from Pahlavi and possibly from Aramaic gaziyat [1]) is a per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non- Muslim citizens, who meet certain criteria. The tax is/was to be levied on able bodied adult males of military age and affording power, [2] (but with specific exemptions, [3] [4] From the point of view of the Muslim rulers, jizya was a material proof of the non-Muslims' acceptance of subjection to the state and its laws, "just as for the inhabitants it was a concrete continuation of the taxes paid to earlier regimes." [5] In return, non-Muslim citizens were permitted to practice their faith, to enjoy a measure of communal autonomy, to be entitled to Muslim state's protection from outside aggression, to be exempted from military service and the zakat taxes obligatory upon Muslim citizens. [6] [7] [8] It is also worth mentioning here that the word Jizya is derived from the root word that refers to “part”, hence taken from a part of the wealth of the non-Muslim citizens. In fact, the use of the word jizya was not even necessary. Al-Tabari wrote that some members of the Christian community asked the companion “Umar bin al-Khatab if they could refer to the jizya as sadaqah which literally means “c