My family lived under the Turks and my grandfather lived under 
the Arabs in Algeria in 1948/49, so let's be honest with each other. 

Even though there was to be no compulsion in religion, these where just words. The jizya was a degrading and humiliating form of enslavement and coercion. Designed to rob non-Muslims and make people live in poverty, or force them into converting to Islam. It was a disgusting way of life in the middle-ages and it is disgusting today. 

My problem here is this. Today in some Islamic history class in a Madrasah. Students are still taught this is their Duty to God and the will of the Creator. This is the double standard of hypocrisy and ignorance the author of this article promotes. 

I refuse to accept such double standards.