"Jizya by Iraqi Christians paid for the Insurgency:" NY Times alleges

... This New York Times article introduces a topic to most Americans, that is little understood-jizya, the poll tax levied in brutal draconian fashion on kafirs or unbelievers in Arab Muslim lands, Iraq being one example. Jizya is like Mafia 'hush money' with a difference. In the case of the mob, if you paid the hush money you survived. In the case of Islamic Shari'a law, it didn't matter, you could still be killed, as attested to what happened to the Iraqi Chaldean Christians. U.S. military intelligence guesstimated that upwards of $2.0 million might have be paid in the form of jizya to al Qaeda insurgents and funded their attacks. Verifying that will be a daunting task. ...