> Secondly, the people being
> protected would also definitely include the non-Muslims who were
> members of the community. (That's what the jizya is for to begin
> with). So perhaps I should have been clearer but the state would have
> the obligation to protect the lives of all its citizens regardless of
> religion.
You ought to be kidding! "Jizya" was a tax imposed on minority religions as a
way to harass and contain them, and to ensure they were kept economically dirt
poor!
I have lived in many parts of the world with Muslim majority and in all those
places the tyranny of Muslims towards the minority groups was most evident.
Ahang.
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