This strange message
was sent to me by one William Young, he sends me lots of junk mail mainly about
how bad Muslim’s are and how wonderful Israel is, to him Israel can and has
never done anything wrong. Whereas Muslims do everything wrong.
Here is what he
said in his email to me, and I quote:
“You didn’t think
Obama was a Muslim you will after reading this !
What would happen to
the funding of the scheme if everyone became Muslims?
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Says the
word "Dhimmitude" is on page 107 of the health care law and means
"Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase
insurance."
— Chain email on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 in a
chain email
'Dhimmitude' on page 107 of the health care law exempts Muslims, claims
chain email
By Angie Drobnic Holan on Thursday, May 30th, 2013
at 5:40 p.m.
Have you ever heard of
"Dhimmitude"? A chain email claims "dhimmitude" is on page
107 of the health care law, and it means Muslims will be exempt from the health
care law.
We don’t want to keep you in
suspense, so we’ll tell it to you straight: The word "dhimmitude" is
not in the health care law.
We know this because of our
previous reporting on the law, and also because we did a full-text search on
both the main law (the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act) and a companion law (the Health Care and Reconciliation
Act). It’s not in either one.
What is "Dhimmitude"?
Well, here’s what the email claims:
Dhimmitude -- I had never heard
the word until now. I typed it into Google and started reading. Pretty
interesting. It's on page 107 of the health care bill. I looked this up on
Google and yep, it exists. It is a REAL word.
Dhimmitude is the Muslim system
of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad (Holy War).
Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their
presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam.
ObamaCare allows the
establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States.
Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase
insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers
insurance to be ‘gambling,’ ‘risk-taking,’ and ‘usury’ and is thus banned.
Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.
How convenient. So I, as a
Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets,
including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivable, and will face hard
prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax.
Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his
health insurance needs paid for by the de facto government insurance.
Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. This is Dhimmitude.
I recommend sending this on to
your contacts. American citizens need to know about it.
We turned to a reputable
reference book, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. It does not contain the
word "Dhimmitude," but it does include the word "dhimmi."
The dictionary says that dhimmi
is a historical term used to describe a "non-Muslim under protection of
Muslim law," which could include Jews, Christians or Hindus. Adult male
dhimmis were required to pay taxes and follow regulations on dress, occupation
and residence. In return, dhimmis received "security of life and property,
defense against enemies, communal self-government, and freedom of religion
practice." The dictionary notes that dhimmi status has lost relevance in
the present day because of the rise of nation-states and modern legal codes.
Some call "‘dhimmitude"
the condition of non-Muslims being subject to Muslim rule, but the word seems
to be a recent coinage of academics and commentators.
We won’t dwell at length on the
concept of dhimmis or of dhimmitude, since neither word is part of the health
care law.
The email goes on to claim that
the health law specifically exempts Muslims. But that’s not the case either.
The health care law has a general
exception for religious conscience (see page 128). But it does not mention any
particular religion, denomination or sect. During the debate over the law’s creation, the
people most often mentioned as wanting an exemption were adherents of Christian
Science, a faith that prefers prayer to conventional medical treatment.
Our fellow fact-checkers over at
Factcheck.org dug even deeper into the question of religious
exemptions. They looked at religious groups that have filed for religious
conscience objections over Social Security’s payroll taxes; the health care law
defines the criteria for religious conscience exemptions in a similar way.
Using a Freedom of Information Act request, Factcheck.org found in 2010 that no
Muslim groups have requested religious conscience exemptions for payroll taxes.
Moreover, Ibrahim Hooper of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations told Factcheck.org that he had never heard of
Muslims having religious objections to health insurance. "I have health
insurance. We give health insurance to our employees. Every Muslim group I know
of does the same thing," he said.
Finally, we’ll note that the
email claims Christians who don’t want insurance will face "crippling IRS
liens" or "face hard prison time." This is also plain wrong.
Members of Congress did not want the penalties for going without insurance to
be too strict, so the law specifically states that people who fail to pay the
penalty "shall not not be subject to any criminal prosecution or
penalty" nor may government officials "file notice of lien with
respect to any property" (page 131).
In fact, this email is wrong on
just about everything: The word "dhimmitude" is not in the law.
Muslims are not specifically exempted. And if anyone is exempted, it’s a small
number of Christian groups.
For promoting absurd notions and
wild fabrication, we have three words: Pants on Fire!
If you have recieved any emails from William Young I'd be most interested to hear your views...
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