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| | Dhimmitude |
 | | Dhimmitude is the coinage of a brilliant historian, Bat Ye'or, whose pioneering studies of the dhimmi, populations of Jews and Christians vanquished by Islamic jihad, have led her to conclude that a common culture has existed through the centuries among the varied dhimmi populations. |
 | | From Egypt and Palestine to Iraq and Syria, from Morocco and Algeria to Spain, Sicily and Greece, from Armenia and the Balkans to the Caucasus: Wherever Islam conquered, surrendering dhimmi, known to Muslims as "people of the book [the Bible]," were tolerated, allowed to practice their religion, but at a dehumanizing cost. |
 | | She goes on to argue that the Western habit of submitting to Islamic sensibilities is, precisely, the behavior conquering Muslims recognize as dhimmitude: |
| cranach.worldmagblog.com /cranach/archives/2006/02/draft_dhimmitud.html (543 words) |
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