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Informal Book Review of "The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude"
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| August/September 1997
| Richard John Neuhaus / Bat Ye'or
Posted on 10/09/2001 3:00:32 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: Stefan Stackhouse
We see the same double standard at work today. Jews reclaiming the homeland that was theirs long before there ever were any "Palestinians" are evil Zionist aggressors. Hundreds of thousands of those Palestinians were Christians, direct descendants of the first Christians in history, who had dwelt in the same land for 2,000 years. It was not the horrors of dhimmitude that finally drove them from their ancestral land.
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10/10/2001 11:21:41 AM PDT
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Romulus
To: Cicero
What strikes one after reading this vastly informative book is how much the conditions of this dhimmitude varied among countries, rulers, and eras, and how much the encounter with Western modernity has added a new element of ambivalence, almost schizophrenia, in Muslim jurisprudencesometimes leading to emancipation and sometimes to a violence and hatred unknown to the past, as in present-day Algeria. This is important.
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10/10/2001 11:23:58 AM PDT
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Romulus
It's time to wake up and smell the feces. Are you listening Oprah Nation?
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