For salsabeel and Muslim materialism

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 14, 2007 at 08:12

My dear salsabeel you wrote that islam is not about "materialism". but wait, how do you explain the following:

1. Infidels have to pay a mafia tax called Jizya. The "protection" or mafia tax. But the real question here is: to protect the infidels from whom?

2. Allah and his rasul get 1/5 of the loot from those nasty infidels and the Muslim looters get 4/5 of the loot. And for this I say shame.

And these are only two examples of "materialism" in Islam.

Islam is not Buddhism for sure.

Islam has more in common with another religion called communism. Wanna know more?

Did you ever ask why did your ancestors convert to islam? Could it be because of the nasty jizya? What do you think our dear salsabeel?

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