Why do you examine Islamic taxes? Aren’t the terrorists getting at least as much revenue from criminal activity including drugs as through revenues allowed by Islamic law?
a. Money Jihad examines the axis between Islamic taxation and terrorist financing because no other blog does, at least not consistently. Various sites on the Internet periodically address terrorist use of the jizya or the zakat, and counterrorism blogs often address Islam, but no other site exposes the connection more clearly and with as much context as we do. Terrorism without revenues sanctioned by Islam would be insolvent. Nobody else wants to admit that these funding streams were designed and permitted by Muhammad. b. The Western press uses terms like “extortion” or “protection payment,” whereas the Middle eastern press or terrorist groups themselves refer to the “jizya” or “ransom.” It can be difficult to discern the “ground truth” from English language press accounts. For example, drug money, if it’s collected on crops at the time of harvest and used to promote Islam, would be designated properly as the ushr, Islam’s harvest tax. Drug money may also be taken as a type of customs
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