According to witnesses the attackers Attack asked Request the hostages if they were Christian or Muslim , letting Preventing_or_letting the Muslims go with a lecture , and slitting Bodily_harm the throats of non-Muslims .

Apart from dispensing with poll tax on non-Muslims ( jizya ) , the revolutionaries also abolished all feudal obligations in 1806 , only 15 years after the French revolution Change_of_leadership , peasant and serf emancipation thus representing a major social break with the past .