[ April 23, 2024 ]
The initial incident story is as appalling and horrifying as any you’ll read this week: according to Australia’s The Age, “a 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate,” as the children around them took video that circulated widely on social media. Even worse, “no disciplinary action has been taken against the group of boys involved in the incident, which took place in a public park.” Maybe the school authorities who did nothing about this were aware that to do so would be “Islamophobic,” because this wasn’t just a simple act of bullying: it was an act in full accord with Islamic law.
The Qur’an mandates that the “People of the Book” – that is, primarily Jews and Christians – must be made to “pay the jizya [poll tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (9:29). This submission had to be acted out. According to the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or, “the poll tax was extorted by torture. The tax inspectors demanded gifts for themselves; widows and orphans were pillaged and despoiled.”
In line with this, there is a famous story from early Islamic history, in which the Bedouin commander al-Mughira bin Sa’d said to the Persian leader Rustam: “I call you to Islam or else you must pay the jizya while you are in a state of abasement.”
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Rustam replied, “I know what jizya means, but what does “‘a state of abasement’ mean?”
Al-Mughira explained: “You pay it while you are standing and I am sitting and the whip hanging is over your head.”
Similarly, the renowned mainstream Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir says that the dhimmis must be “disgraced, humiliated and belittled. Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated.”
The seventh-century Muslim jurist Sa’id ibn al-Musayyab stated: “I prefer that the people of the dhimma become tired by paying the jizya since He says, “‘until they pay the jizya with their own hands in a state of complete abasement.’” As-Suyuti elaborates that this verse “is used as a proof by those who say that it is taken in a humiliating way, and so the taker sits and the dhimmi stands with his head bowed and his back bent. The jizya is placed in the balance and the taker seizes his beard and hits his chin.” He adds, however, that “this is rejected according to an-Nawawi who said, ‘This manner is invalid.’” Another Islamic scholar, Zamakhshari, however, agreed that the jizya should be collected “with belittlement and humiliation.”
Now that belittlement and humiliation has come to a playground in Australia, and since it is a hallowed element of Islamic law, we will be seeing a great deal more of it in Oz and in the United States as well. The fact that it is part of Islamic law that Muslims must belittle and humiliate non-Muslims may explain why the Cheltenham Secondary College, which these boys in Australia attended, and the Education Department did nothing. After all, they don’t want to offend Australia’s Muslims.
The Age reported that “the school and the department have denied having responsibility for the incident, because it did not take place on school grounds, the mother said.” The mother herself said: “I took such offence with the Education Department, because there was nothing they did to protect my son at all, at any point in time – that’s what’s cut me up.”
The mother decided to take matters into her own hands: she “sought out the parents of the Muslim boy, who were horrified by their son’s actions. ‘We sat down, his parents, the two boys and myself, around the table and explained the velocity of [the bullying] and what it meant to us as parents as far as building bridges between Jews and Muslims in society and not creating division like that photo does.’”
That all sounds wonderful, but where did this Muslim boy get the idea to make the Jewish boy kiss his shoes in the first place? What has he learned at home? The artist Bosch Fawstin, the winner of our 2015 Muhammad Cartoon Contest, grew up in a non-observant Muslim home, but explained on the night he received the Cartoon Contest prize (and Islamic State gunmen, egged on by the FBI, attacked the event) that even though his family was not religious, everyone in his family and every other Muslim he knew was anti-Semitic. It was part of the culture.
Australian authorities need to recognize that fact, and understand that if they do not act now, this is going to be the first of many, many similar incidents. And they should ask themselves whether it is really wise to bring into the country large numbers of people among whom a significant number believe they have a divine mandate to humiliate and debase those who believe differently. But that, of course, would be “Islamophobic.”
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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35 Comments
4 years ago
The school officials were plain and simple COWARDS. They’d even let those kids do that to them. No religious law is supposed to super-cede the country’s own law.
4 years ago
“Taser Tango”. Good one.
4 years ago
While I commend this writers last paragraph as being on the
so-called mark, as I also agree that these people of this belief system are
born into a heinous belief system which teaches and promotes horrible consequences
as it removes the qualities of tolerance and substitutes domination, subjugation
and mistreatment of all of us “others,” I need to congratulate the mother of
this child for taking the matter at issue directly to its source.
Unfortunately, this incident will never change a
belief system that for over 1400 years has considered itself the dominating “religious”
belief system, while simultaneously putting all OTHERS down as flawed and
having no claim to divine inspiration. That is the facts of life as it involves
these believers, and none of us others should fail to see that they represent a
clear and present danger to us others. We must accept the existence of the
horrors ahead that WILL come from these believers, for failure to do so, and
opening our cultures to them will surely adversely affect those of us others
who believe in other religious concepts and those of us who do not believe at
all. They mean to force conversion on us others or physically terminate us.
That is what this article is really all about!
4 years ago
The STATE of Australia itself is the MAIN COWARD.
4 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
Eradicate them would be much better. It would save on air fares.
4 years ago
And the Leftist Poope shills for bringing in more illegals/ christian killing jihadis into christian lands http://tinyurl.com/popeofwolves
Criticises Trump for building a Wall
while he lives behind secure 40 ft walls and 24 hour security !
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
If Pope Francis were to ever to publicly criticise the muslum death cult the ramifications for any Christians still living in the totalitarian, vicious, vile, religious apartheid states of the muslum world could be dire. The f’ing muslums don’t differentiate between Christian denominations, they’ll happily kill S. Korean Methodists or Filipino Catholics or Coptic Christians and have.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Yes, but the only way to see Francine in her true light (actual appearance) is if you’re wearing glasses from “They Live”.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
They Live, starring Rowdy Roddy Piper! I remember I took a date to see that movie and she couldn’t take all the violence.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I have never seen that movie, in its entirety. Simply bits and pieces. Assuming that I live and that the Lord wills it … I’ll see it some day.
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Pope Francis unleashes his inner pagan in Pan-Amazonian document laying foundation for ‘new’ Church
https://leohohmann.com/2019/07/02/pope-francis-unleashes-his-inner-pagan-in-pan-amazonian-document-laying-foundation-for-new-church/
The new Vatican
https://spectator.org/the-popes-pitiful-reign-of-error/
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
…and why were the 40 ft walls built you may ask?
The Arab raid against Rome took place in 846. Muslim raiders plundered the outskirts of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter’s and St Paul’s-Outside-the-Walls, but were prevented from entering the city itself by the Aurelian Wall.
Shortly after the siege Pope Leo IV built a strong wall on the right bank of the Tiber, in order to protect the Church of St. Peter. The encircled territory, defended by Castel Sant’Angelo, was named after the pope Leonine City, and was considered a separate town, with its own administration. It joined the city in the sixteenth century, becoming the fourteenth rione of Rome, Borgo. In 849, another Arab raid against Rome’s port, Ostia, would be repelled; the city was never again attacked by an Arab fleet.
4 years ago
That makes sense. Part of subduing a person could include humiliation.
The idea behind a jizya tax is to show their superiority and you, the nonbeliever the submissive inferior.
I would guess the more inferior you are made to be the more superior they feel. Muslims get off on sadism and humiliation. I hope that young man has allot of loving support around him to heal and move forward.
4 years ago
MY GOD!!!
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ?
$8G reward offered for info on Missouri beagle skinned alive
By Bradford Betz | Fox News 10/6./19
This happened in southwest Missouri last month. Someone in the subdivision saw the beagle painfully wandering out of the woods and called the police. When the police arrived the beagle was in such pain they put him down because 75% of the skin had been removed. The owner was out of town and they think somehow the dog managed to get out. Who ever did this will do WORSE to a human being. They often start out being sadistic to animals.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/8k-reward-missouri-beagle-skinned-alive
?ve=1&tl=1
4 years ago
“…building bridges between Jews and Muslims in society…” Maybe she should try selling that lie to the Jews who used to inhabit:
1. Egyptistain
2. Iraqistain
3. Syriastain
4. Yemen
There was a documentary I once saw on the Jews of Indonesia. This group of Jews, of which only ONE was willing to go on camera (and that well away from his synagogue), clearly lived in fear and deliberately located their synagogue in a majority Christian part of Indonesia (even though this was inconvenient for some members of the congregation). The synagogue itself had no markings indicating it as such and the congregants were careful to wear no clothing that could be identified as Jewish whenever they exited the synagogue.
4 years ago
Dhimmitude laws and you
http://www.islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2456&Itemid=96
Jizya (Extortion)
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/jizya.aspx
4 years ago
If a muslim boy was forced to kiss a Crucifix…are you kidding? There would be riots and the police would have him arrested for a hate crime. islam is a CURSE
4 years ago
The whole world knows where ever Muslims lay their towel heads and Burma’s it’s sharia law they respect. Now what is western world govts gonna do about this? Apart fro. Girl rape and marriage? Is this racist and discrimination ? It could be my daughter??? ffs.
4 years ago
If i were there i would be acting in accordance to the Crusades. We sure could use another one.
4 years ago
Jewish boys and girls need to start learning Krav Magar
4 years ago
MY religion ” The Crusade of Love” demands all moslems to be castrated or be put to death!
4 years ago
He should not have done it.
“OK, tough guy Badger, what would you have done?” – I can’t say for sure but I’m 99% certain I would never have gone on my knees. It would have destroyed the rest of my life. If I lived to be 100 I would still be suffering from this.
The only way I could atone for my lack of courage would have been to hunt down the muslim and kill him. That would be the only way to settle the score.
4 years ago
That would not be looked upon in a kindly manner in my neighborhood…….that sort of weird behavior would open up a Can of “Wupass” for the entire Muslim Community !!!!!
4 years ago
i would have had the mooslum boy to kiss my ass
4 years ago
SINCE THEY LIKE PEOPLE KISSING THEIR SHOES, THEY CAN KISS THE GROUND ON THE WAY OUT THE DOOR OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE THE LAW FOR NONCITIZEN MUSLIMS WHO DO THINGS LIKE THAT! IF THEY ARE CITIZENS, IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED EXTORTION AND ASSAULT AND PUNISHED LEGALLY TO FIT BOTH THOSE CRIMES SERVED CONCURRENTLY!
4 years ago
This is an abomination. Islam is a criminal religion.
