ROBERT SPENCER: Islam teaches no work ethic. Its ideal state has Muslims living on the backs of non-Muslims, while discriminating against the non-Muslims so severely that the host cannot indefinitely continue to support the parasite.

The Ottoman Empire was once the world's most fearsome power — but the jizya, the Qur'an's tax on Jews and Christians, was the chief source of its income. Once the Jewish and Christian communities were bled dry and impoverished, the great empire went into an irreversible decline.… pic.twitter.com/ysBEysZomd

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) May 11, 2026

The Ottoman Empire was once the world's most fearsome power — but the jizya, the Qur'an's tax on Jews and Christians, was the chief source of its income. Once the Jewish and Christian communities were bled dry and impoverished, the great empire went into an irreversible decline. Islam teaches no work ethic. Its ideal state has Muslims living on the backs of non-Muslims, while discriminating against the non-Muslims so severely that the host cannot indefinitely continue to support the parasite. And so Islamic states inevitably go into decline and have to wage more jihad to find more non-Muslims to support them.

Find out more about this in The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses, 2026.