ISIS arrests hundreds of shop owners in Mosul
The Islamic State (ISIS) has arrested hundreds of shopkeepers in Mosul for failure to pay a religious tax to the fanatical group that has occupied the city in northern Iraq for more than a year, a Kurdish official said Wednesday. Businesses in the vast territories that ISIS controls in Iraq and Syria must pay their “zakat,” […]The Islamic State (ISIS) has arrested hundreds of shopkeepers in Mosul for failure to pay a religious tax to the fanatical group that has occupied the city in northern Iraq for more than a year, a Kurdish official said Wednesday. Businesses in the vast territories that ISIS controls in Iraq and Syria must pay their “zakat,” or Islamic alms that practicing Muslims usually give to the poor, to the militant group, known as “Daesh” in Arabic.
“Daesh arrested 355 shop owners in Mosul after they refused to pay zakat to the group,” said Saad Mamuzin, spokesman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul, who lives in the Kurdistan Region since ISIS seized the city in June last year.
