Posted on 09/26/2006 5:37:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Dhimmitude for Dummies
By Victor Sharpe
Israel Hasbara Committee | September 26, 2006
Ask one hundred people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps two or three might know. In Western Europe the number would be slightly higher because of latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies over hundreds of years.
In 732, Charles Martel led his Frankish forces at Tours to victory against an Islamic invasion of France, which nearly destroyed Christian Europe. Similarly, Islam was ousted from Spain in 1492 after an occupation of the Iberian Peninsula by the Moslems for hundreds of years. Sadly, the Spanish Christian monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, and the Portuguese a few years later, also expelled the Jewish community although the Jews had lived in Spain and Portugal for many centuries and had never posed a threat to either Moslem or Christian sovereignty.
In Italy, Islamic power was brought to an end when the heavy Turkish galleys were defeated by Venetian galleasses at the great naval battle of Lepanto in 1571. And the Moslem Ottoman power, which at its height again threatened all of Western Europe, was barely turned back at the gates of Vienna on 11 September 1683 by a coalition of European armies. Incidentally, could there be a connection between 9.11.1683 and 9.11.2001, or is it just coincidence?
These were four major defeats by Europe of Islamic attempts of conquest and subjugation set against a history of victorious Moslem invasions and conquests that had been the hallmark of Islam since its founding in the seventh century.
But what of the peoples and nations that fell under Islamic occupation? For them the story was one of forced conversions to Islam, slavery, death and the Islamic institution of dhimmitude.
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LOL!
Hey, what's not to like? I mean, their burkhas are so...so colourful!
[Mama always taught me to find a way to say something positive about everyone...]
A.A.C.
"The Final Crusade has commenced; moslem women's lib = holding 'burkha burnings' for all!"
You're welcome....and also -- readers will be able to see the article LONG AFTER the original article link is gone. :-)
Right on.
Babe, how many Americans on the streets of Boca could find Kosovo on a map? If Americans knew anything at all about Kosovo, Serbia, or Albania, they would care.
Bosnia, and their hitmen, the Albanians, have succeeded in PR beyond their wildest dreams... PR paid for by Saudi Arabia.
We had this under control for a while. One part of the planet was called "Islam." Our part used to be called "Christendom." Sort of like the Crips and Bloods in LA. Wasn't a good idea to be in the wrong neighborhood.
But then our European cousins thought they had a better idea. As a result, we sit around with baited breath awaiting the first European Sharía government.
We had this under control for a while. One part of the planet was called "Islam." Our part used to be called "Christendom." Sort of like the Crips and Bloods in LA. Wasn't a good idea to be in the wrong neighborhood.
But then our European cousins thought they had a better idea. As a result, we sit around with baited breath awaiting the first European Sharía government.
DEFINITION: The status of People of the Book (Jews and Christians) unders Islamic rule.
DHIMMI HOTSPOTS:
Pakistan: anti-Christian legislation
Iran: Systematic oppression of the Bahai community
Sudan: Murder and enslavement of Black Africans
Saudi Arabia: Apartheid for all non-Muslims
Indonesia: Terrorizing of Christian minorities
Egypt: Oppression of Coptic Christians
Bangladesh: Terrorizing of Hindu and Christian minorities by Islamic radicals
DHIMMI: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
7th-21st century. The notion of Dhimmitude, originating in the 7th century, still applies today to non-Muslims under Islamic rule—whether Jews or Christians, whether in Saudi Arabia or in Sudan. Dhimmitude began in 628 CE when Mohammed and his forces conquered the Jewish oasis at Khaybar. They massacred many of the Jews and forced the rest to accept a pact ("Dhimma") which rendered them inferiror to their Muslim conquerors. Over the centuries, the ideology of Dhimmitude expanded into a formal system of religious apartheid.
"But then our European cousins thought they had a better idea. As a result, we sit around with baited breath awaiting the first European Sharía government." |
Not sure how many in Boca Raton could identify Kosovo, I've never been there.
You are misreading the "Boka" part -- I am not from (or in) Florida. "Boka" comes from "Boka Kotorska", south of Dubrovnik on the coast of Montenegro where my father was born. I live in (and was born & raised in) California.
Here in the Sacramento area, a larger than usual number of people know where Serbia is because our two favorite (now former) Sacramento Kings were Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovich. And for years, basketball was more or less "a religion" here.
But, having said all of that, I do get your point -- and yet, how many people knew where Bosnia was or Kosovo was, when they were clamoring for us to "bomb the Serbs" there 7 years ago? You don't need a map to see an issue.
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VERY nice - again...!!
Thanks Smartass, good explanation!
Thanks for the ping!
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