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IS Forces Syrian Christians to Pledge to Abide by Islamic Rules, Pay Special
Tax for Dhimmis (non-Mussies)
‘Dhimma’ contract
imposed by Islamic State includes ban on external displays of Christian faith,
‘Jizya’ tax levied on non-Muslims
The Islamic State
group is forcing Christians in the Syrian territory it controls to sign a
contract for Dhimma (non-Muslims), restricting external expressions of their
faith and agreeing to pay a Jizya tax levied on those who do not follow Islam.
The Islamist
organization controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, where some 10 million people
live, according to a March 2015 assessment by the International Committee of
the Red Cross.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which monitors
the Arab media, says that the Islamic State’s media office in the Damascus
province on Thursday published a photo report showing Christians in the town of
Al-Qaryatayn in central Syria signing the contract, which it says requires
signatories “to pay the Jizya poll tax, abide by Islamic rules and refrain from
certain activities.”
In exchange,
MEMRI says, the contract offers certain protections for Christians, including a
guarantee that they will come to no harm and will not be forced to convert. The
contract adds that anyone found to be in violation of any of the articles in
the 11-point contract will be “treated as a combatant.”
The clauses
in the contract include a ban on Christians building churches, monasteries, or
hermitages in the town or the environs; a ban on displaying the cross or any
books in the Muslims’ streets or markets; and a prohibition against ringing
church bells outside of their churches. The contract also warns against “any
act of aggression against ISIS, such as giving refuge to spies and wanted men,”
and demands that signatories report “any plot against Muslims.”
In addition,
the contract states that “wealthy Christians must pay an annual Jizya of four
gold dinars; middle-class Christians must pay two gold dinars, and the poor
must pay one.” The Jizya can be divided into two payments, the contract says.
Further
prohibitions reportedly include a ban on owning guns and on “commercial
activity involving pigs or alcohol with Muslims or in Muslim markets.”
Christians are also banned from drinking alcohol in public.
This is not
the first time that IS has forced Christians who found themselves under its
rule to sign such a contract. In February 2014, the Christians of the Syrian
town of Raqqa signed a similar agreement with IS.
The Islamic
State has notoriously targeted Christians and other non-Muslims in the
territory it controls, including forcible conversions, seizing and destroying
property and driving residents out of their homes. It has also systematically
destroyed evidence of cultures other than Islam in those territories, most
notably destroying ancient artefacts at Tadmor, or Palmyra, in Syria.