{"id":1231,"date":"2012-08-02T01:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/web\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2012-08-02T01:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:12:23","slug":"allegation-that-islam-expanded-by-forcing-people-to-pay-jizyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Allegation that Islam expanded by forcing people to pay Jizyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslims have to pay taxes (which is 2.5 percent of their annual income) under the name of &#8220;Zakah&#8221; to provide welfare to the poor and the needy citizens; from both Muslims and non-Muslims. The poor and the needy (such as the Orphans, Widows and the disabled) from the Muslims are exempt from paying taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The non-Muslims had to pay a varrying amount under the name of &#8220;Jizyah&#8221;, depending on their situation, which is taxes that don&#8217;t go to help poor and needy Muslims, but instead, it goes to the government to (1) Provide protection for them since they are a minority; (2) Provide means for them to practice their religions freely by building Temples or Churches for them.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs I mentioned above for the non-Muslims, there are exemptions for the poor, for females and children. The idea that Islam expanded by forcing people to convert by imposing jizyah is false simply because:<\/p>\n<p>1) If they became muslim they would have to pay more in zakah<br \/>\n2) The poor and needy did not need to become muslim because as mentioned they would be exempt from paying jizyah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslims have to pay taxes (which is 2.5 percent of their annual income) under the name of &#8220;Zakah&#8221; to provide welfare to the poor and the needy citizens; from both Muslims and non-Muslims.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,161],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-islam","tag-allegation","tag-jizyah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}