Ofcourse Jizya is also to make the non-muslims feel submissive. To ensure complete authority and loyalty.
But you know, you are making it to be an evil aspect but it's not. I think the actions of Christians and Jews in the past who left Christian nations to live in the Caliphate despite the...
Marriage in the Bible(OT or NT take your pick) is between man and a woman. It never occured to the authors of the Bible to incorporate something like gay marriage because the gays would be stoned to death before ever setting a date, let alone have an actual official wedding like man and woman...
The same can be said about Muslims and Zakaat.
If i dont pay my taxes in Europe, the IRS will threaten me, take away my belongings and or send me to jail. Is that 'protection money' aswell?
There is nothing wrong in paying a form of tax to pay for equipment, administration, employees etc. Everyone in an Islaamic caliphate has to chip in basically.
Its taxes not extra taxes. And muslims in Sharia because of their religion are required to pay for the poor. Isnt that unconstitutional, illegal and discriminatory aswell?