And what a grip it is!

Submitted by notpassive (United States), Feb 3, 2008 at 11:43

The dhimmis posture during the collection of the jizya – [lowering themselves] by walking on their hands, reluctantly; on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas (al Tabari).^[118]They then shall be dragged one by one for the exacting of payment. When paying, the dhimmi will receive a blow and will be thrown aside so that he will think that he has escaped the sword through this.. (Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Maghili)^[117]

^[115] Jews, Christians, and Majians must pay the jizya… on offering up the jizya, the dhimmi must hang his head while the official takes hold of his beard and hits [the dhimmi] on the protruberant bone beneath his ear [i.e., the mandible]… (Al-Ghazali)

In his commentary on Sura 9:29, Ibn Kathir writes that dhimmis must be: disgraced, humiliated and belittled. Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of the dhimma or elevate them above Muslims, for they [dhimmis] are miserable, disgraced, and humiliated.^[109]

But how do we reveal this mortal threat to our Western appeaser/multiculturalists?

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