Jizyah

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Koran 9:29 "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and Mohammed, nor acknowledge Islam, even if they are of the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves humiliated."

"Jizyah [extortion money] is inflicted upon infidels for their obstinacy in infidelity and **must be extracted from them in a mortifying and humiliating manner, including seizing the infidel by the throat and shaking him.** It is imposed in lieu of actual destruction. This punishment for infidelity is no longer enforced only if the person converts to Islam or dies." From *Al-Hidayah fi Sharh Bidayat al-Mubtadi,* the legal manual of Hanafi jurisprudence.

"The dhimmi taxpayers also had to feed and lodge [Muslim] tax collectors, soldiers, and others, and **[jizyah] taxes were extracted using punishments and torture.** Failure to pay the jizyah, or to pay enough, had devastating results. These included **branding dhimmis on their hands and forehead, mutilation, amputation of limbs, gouging out of eyes, slaughter, impaling, flagellation, hanging, being crushed under presses or thrown into freezing lakes,** etc." From *The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam,* by Bat Ye’or.

"The Qadi Mughis-ud-din declared regarding Hindus that when paying the jizyah, '**If the [jizyah] officer throws dirt into their mouths, they must without reluctance open their mouths wide to receive it**' and suggested such **humiliation was demanded by Allah and Mohammad, for it glorified Islam.** Hindus were 'lucky' under Hanifi law because other schools of Sunni jurisprudence allowed only two options: death or conversion to Islam. Aside from being beaten about the head, or having dirt thrown into their mouths, cases are recorded where **Muslims spit into the mouth of the Hindi dhimmi as he presented his jizyah.**" - Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian, 1920

Are we understanding Islam, yet?