Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Dr. Khaled Said, which aired on Al-Hafez TV (via the Internet) on March 17, 2013.
Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV.
Khaled Said: "If the revolution declares a framework for dealing with the West and America – they will accept it, kiss our hands, and double the aid they give us. We consider this aid to be jizya [poll tax], not regular aid."
Interviewer: "Is this the rhetoric of the revolution?"
Khaled Said: "It certainly is."
Interviewer: "The aid the Americans give us is the jizya tax they have to pay?"
Khaled Said: "Yes, it is. They pay it for the right of passage through our airspace and territorial waters."
Interviewer: "They pay to keep us quiet?"
Khaled Said: "They pay so that we will let them be."
Interviewer: "Is that a fatwa?"
Khaled Said: "Indeed. The aid constitutes jizya.
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"We must strive to realize the goals of the revolution, and to establish a sovereign, Arab Islamic state in Egypt. Then this state will impose payment of aid upon America as jizya, in exchange for allowing it to realize its interests – the ones that we approve, get it?
"They must pay reparations for destroying our country and the Islamic nation – them and others in the West – so that we will agree to cooperate with them."
Interviewer: "But this is not what jizya means."
Khaled Said: "Nevertheless, I call it jizya."
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