"" This led to a question about the future of Syria's minorities such as the
Christians. Ahmed, Basah, and Hamid Hassan all agreed - Christians could only
live there if they either converted, or paid the 'Jizyah' - a special tax levied
on non-Muslims in previous centuries in the Middle East. If not said Bahar, they
could be killed.
When asked why, the answer was, to them, quite simple - because the Prophet
Mohammed said so. I was then invited to become a Muslim."" (thanks Hassan)
