let me tell you something, you guys are confused for long about: first thing first: yes, have you been forced to convert then there would not have been 80% of the public out of islam today. which encyclopedia you aer re fereing man. better look into history. these encyclopedia and dectionary keep on changing their meaning depending their requirement. fundamentalism started from christianity but today they refer it to directely islam. shame on these educational institutions who are so much engaged in this dirty maligning business. second thing: zijya...may i know if govt has got any tax to collect from its public or not? how will the govt run otherwise? indian govt asks me to pay IT can i curse it for this tax and abuse it for this tax? do you have any other tax paid to muslims? no you are just enjoying with simple jizya. do you know what muslims pays in muslim regime? he pays, Zakat, Khairaat, Sadaqa and add these. even zakat the obligatory tax itself is much more than your jiziya. since zakat was an islamic tax so non-muslims were not forced to pay it so they were paying a lesser amount of jiziya to the govt. where is the wrong in this. you dont know anything but simply try to malign msuilms and islam by getting motivated by your dirty leaders. some muslim king were appeasing hindus and did not put this tax but some did and how can you curse this. can i curse indian govt for taking IT from me? correct yourself and follow the truth, liars will taste the dust very soon.