11-12-2019, 04:22 AM
(11-11-2019, 10:49 AM)Anthony Wrote:(11-11-2019, 05:52 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(11-09-2019, 05:21 PM)Anthony Wrote: Rather interesting that Equatorial Guinea ranks 174th out of 180 countries in "freedom" despite having the highest Gini index in the world (65.0).
Where's the connection? Gini measures inequality (and not very well).
"Zakat," translated as "charity" or "almsgiving," is one of the six pillars of Islam - the other five being "Shahada" (faith), "Salat" (prayer), "Sawm" (fasting, particularly the dawn-to-dusk fast during Ramadan), "Hajj" (the pilgrimage to Mecca, which is mandatory for all Muslims physically and financially able to do so), and, of course, "Jihad" (violent holy war against "infidels").
And the whole point of sharia law is to deputize government to build these pillars and to keep them standing - linking the Islamic extremism of the Second Cold War to the Communism of the First Cold War.
That doesn't have to do anything with what I said. But since we're at it, how much zakat do they have to pay? WP says "2.5% of their savings and wealth". Once per year. Is that correct?