The bin Laden video.  Hmm.  I should accept Islam because it will lower my taxes?  So I won’t be able to vote in a democratic system and be ruled by a religious dictator?  What is bin Laden thinking?  

Is Islam a governmental system, an economic system, a religion, or all three?  For those of you who are reading this but aren’t Christians, you should know that Christianity is...

None of the above. 

This is an excerpt from bin Laden, via memri.org.

“As an alternative to the capitalist system, bin Laden offers Islam. He calls upon the Americans to embrace Islam, saying: ‘The biggest and most irreversible error one can commit in this world is to die without surrendering oneself to Allah, namely, to die without embracing Islam.’ He warns that, once the owners of the major corporations realize that the Americans people have lost confidence in the democratic system and have started searching for an alternative, i.e., Islam, ‘they will run after you to please you and fulfill your every desire, in order to turn you away from Islam.’ He therefore advices the Americans not to waver in their pursuit of Islam, since the benefits they will receive by embracing it are numerous, including a significant reduction in taxes, since Islam does not impose taxes beyond the mandatory 2.5% Zakat (i.e., alms) tax.”