Jews Living Rent-Free In Islamist Heads Also Not Paying Jizya There

Experts confess inability to account for the phenomenon.

Ankara, May 22 – Observers noted this week that not only do Islamists dedicate large portions of their minds to Jews and charge nothing for the space allotted, they appear to violate Islamic principles by neglecting to enforce collection from those Jews of the mandatory tax on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule.

None of the millions of Muslims committed to imposing Islam on the world as a political system charge even a token amount of rent for the space that Jews occupy in the Islamists’ heads, new evidence indicates, but experts note that moreover, those whose devotion to Islam causes them to obsess over Jews and perceived Jewish perfidy inexplicably do not extract jizya “protection” payments from the Jews that live in the Islam-dominated realm that is the Islamists’ heads.

Islamic Law, known as Sharia, demands that all non-Muslims who come under Islamic rule convert to Islam, but that as People of the Book, Jews and Christians may instead pay a tax called jizya, and live under certain restrictions that cement their inferior status in law, public life, and other arenas. In theory, at least, this dhimmi status affords these groups some protection, but in practice differs little from the discriminatory treatment Jews suffered under Christian rule. Islamic sensibilities further stipulate that any place once conquered by an Islamic army becomes Dar-al-Islam, the domain of Islam, and may not revert to non-Islamic status. Islamists’ minds, therefore, may not refrain from collecting the jizya from dhimmi residing there; it appears, however, that the selfsame Islamists intent on the imposition and enforcement of Sharia outside their heads take no such measures against the Jews living rent-free inside them.

Experts confess inability to account for the phenomenon. “Islamists, as a rule, prefer sweeping, forced solutions,” noted Aqila Kufar, Professor of Islamic Studies at Al-Najah University. “There’s very little room for exceptions to ‘Islam must dominate’ in this way of thinking. I find it surprising that no effort is being made to collect jizya. You’d think that it’s rare enough to find modern Islamic countries enforcing the jizya consistently – sincere practitioners of the faith should be jumping at the opportunity to uphold its requirements in the one place they exert total control. But they’re not. I don’t know what to say.”

“It would be different if the Jews were living rent-free somewhere else, but this isn’t even right under their noses – it’s behind their noses,” wondered Mana Fiq of Al-Quds University. “The only explanation I can see is that the Jews live there as a way to control Muslims from the inside, which would be just like the Jews. But it then raises the question whether anything Islamists do is good or bad. I mean, if the Jews are controlling us and want us to be thinking this way…” he trailed off.

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