Posted on 08/18/2010 8:16:54 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
"Under Islamic law, jizya or jizyah (Arabic: جزْية IPA: [ˈdʒɪzjæh]; Ottoman Turkish: cizye; both derived from Pahlavi and ultimately 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] though these were discarded at various points in history[5])."Jizya
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