You neglect to mention that a Dimmi forgoes civil rights
Yes the mafia will also sell their protection racket as modest too
This extortion tax is literally in exchange for not being attacked. killed and robbed by muslims
Dhimmis had a legal status that granted them protection from external threats, and granted them religious and community autonomy as well as judicial rights under islamic law. You could say "isn't islam all about equality tho? this is injustice!", islam teaches justice ('adl/3adl, which comes from the root verb 'a-d-l, which means to be equal to, just, straight, and temperate.) but that doesn't mean absolutely equality in the
modern liberal sense, instead islam emphasizes
equity (giving people rights based on their roles, responsibilities, individual circumstances and social context). For example: Parents don’t treat a young child and an adult child exactly the same, but that doesn’t mean they're being unfair, and in the case of dhimmis, they had different rights because muslims had additional duties such as islamic law, military service (where dhimmis were
EXEMPT from), zakat, etc. whilst the dhimmis had different obligations such as jizya, exemption from military service, etc.
That isn't necessarily oppression, it was a system of
mutual responsibility under islamic governance, and despite legal differences, Islam affirms the fundamental equality of
all human beings:
"O humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may ˹get to˺ know one another. Surely the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous among you. Allah is truly All-Knowing, All-Aware." 49:13
Islam abolished tribal superiority and racism, The Prophet ﷺ said:
"There is no superiority of an arab over a non-arab, nor is there superiority of a non-arab over an arab, nor a white over a black, nor a black over a white,
except in piety." (Musnad Ahmad, 23489; Sahih - Authenticated by Al-Albani in Silsilah al-Saheehah 2700)
Only abled-bodied adult men were required to pay jizya (not women, elderly people or children) and were refunded if the state failed to protect them (e.g., during the Muslim retreat from Syria against the Byzantines), and again, it was often
lower than zakat which is what muslims had to pay.
yes its a process that comes over time. The violence must be halal so you can life your destiny to slay the kaffir walking the footsteps of Muhammed.
Yes a holy man that promotes slavery.
In the south there were some more wholesome variations of slavery. The north never understood.
Islamic slavers were the last to mass castrate negro slaves. Thats hella weird and based at the same time. Was it halal or were they being extra curricular?
Islam
does not promote the killing of non-Muslims simply because they are non-Muslims. The Quran explicitly states:
"There is no compulsion in religion" (2:256)
"If they incline to peace, incline to it also, and rely upon allah..." (8:61)
The dhimmis thrived under muslim states and many of them rose to high status such as Hasdai ibn shaprut who was a jewish scholar and diplomat in al-andalus (muslim iberia), Sergius of Reshaina who was a christian physician that translated greek texts for muslim caliphs, ibn al-Muqaffa', a persian Zoroastrian who influenced arabic literature, and many more. They lived peacefully for centuries without being "slain". And I recommend you look into the treaty of Hudaybiyyah because it's very crucial and essential to our debate because the prophet (PBUH) made many peace treaties
including the treaty of Hudaybiyyah, I get you're reluctant to because it's above your "paygrade" but you're probably the first person I've properly debated and I'm still trying, and I urge you to try too brother and I remind us to keep open minds when debating because if we didn't then there'd be no point in debating because everything would be based on our emotions and feelings instead of clear-cut objective facts and reasoning, rome wasn't built in a day.
Slavery existed in
all civilizations before Islam. However, islam reformed slavery and made freeing slaves one of the
greatest acts of worship, the prophet (PBUH) freed more slaves than he had owned and
encouraged others to do the same, the quran
repeatedly orders the freeing of slaves as an act of righteousness such as 90:12-13 "And what will make you know the path of goodness? it is to free a slave..."
And sahih muslim, 1509a "Freeing a slave is the best form of charity", unlike other societies, islamic law forbade the enslavement of free people outside of war such as in sahih bukhari 2227: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah says, 'I will be against three persons on the Day of Resurrection: -1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous. -2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price, -3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but does not pay him his wages.' ". This means that capturing free people
outside of war and enslaving them (as was common in transatlantic slavery) is a grave sin. And as for the issues of captives captured and enslaved during war, I already refuted and explained that.
The claim that islamic slavers were the last to mass-castrate negro slaves is simply historically inaccurate. While
some African slaves were castrated, this was
NOT an Islamic practice but a practice carried out by
slave traders for economic reasons. Islam forbids the castration of slaves as the prophet (PBUH) explicitly forbade it in sahih muslim 1676 and indirectly in sunan ibn majah 2340 "There shall be no harming or reciprocrating of harming". This does not mean no harm at all, you can and should fight when there is a just cause such as being invaded or being oppressed but even in war there are
regulations as I've previously mentioned, and slaves can't even be forced into prositution as mentioned in the quran 24:33, therefore slaves cannot be forced or coerced into marrying you, but EVEN if they accept, if one is already married to a woman or multiple women, she/they must consent to it without any coercion or pressure, same thing if a man wants another wife. And he
MUST be emotionally, spiritually, physically and financially capable of marrying to marry.