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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But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamist aggression and Islamo-fascism we may all be faced, sooner than we think, with the choice of forced conversion to Islam or subservience and wretchedness as dhimmis.
Better, therefore, for us all to be aware of the facts and not also be dummies.
They forgot to mention Roger I and the Italian Normans who drove the Saracen Muslims out of Sicily and Southern Italy.
Heh... little unintended humor there, I think. PJ-Comix Echo Syndrome? Look out, Rush!
That book must be required reading for Loony Liberals all over the world.
Isn't it amazing that the practitioners of dhimmitude call Israel an apartheid nation.
Good thing Clinton used our military to secure bases for the Jihadists in Bosnia and Kosovo!
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Thanks for posting that. How did we ever get the notion that it was a peaceful religion! Someone I know just read the Koran and said it was just a manual on subversion tactics.
They're just taking a page from Goebbels' playbook.
It's never get through their thick skulls. In their whacked-out view, the Islamists only hate us because we did something to upset them.
That's why I call "Democrats" by their proper name: Dhimmicrats.
The whole spreading Islam out into the world is nothing more then a reverse crusade.
LOL.
The relations of Muslims and non-Muslims were set in a context of a war: jihad. Its justification by Qur'anic verses and hadiths provides to jihad, the war against non-Muslims, a theological base. Jihad establishes a single pattern for relations between Muslims and non-Muslims and is central to their relationship. Jihad can be examined at three levels: its doctrine, its institutions, and its historical manifestations.
The ideology of jihad was conceived after Muhammad death. It encompasses a doctrine aiming at the Islamization of the world, supported by military institutions and tactics of war, all being considered as binding the Islamic community (umma). Jihad represents the Islamic worldview of war and peace, it constitutes a specialized domain of Islamic theology and law.
Jihad doctrine divides the peoples of the world into two irreconcilable groups: the dar al-Islam (the land of Islam) and the dar al-harb, (land of war) the non-Muslim world, destined to come under Islamic jurisdiction either by the peaceful conversion of its inhabitants, or by armed conflict. Jihad is the permanent state of war of the dar al-Islam against infidels until they submit to Islamic domination. Peace is accepted only temporarily according to circumstances. The institution of jihad regulates the conduct of war according to religious rules.
Right on. In around 1600 My ancestors were Byzantine Greeks living in Sicily and they teamed up with Roger I and drove out the Saracens. Also some of my ancestors lived in Albania and had to flee to Sicily in the 1400;s because the Ottoman Turks had invaded Albania. They were Christians and did not want to have to convert to Islam. I think it is amazing we of the West have been fighting the Muslims for 1000 years and that we still are.
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