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  Dhimmis and Dhimmitude: The Status of Minorities Under Islamic Rule
Dhimmitude: the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system.
The word "dhimmitude" as a historical concept, was coined by Bat Ye'or in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule.
Dhimmitude encompasses the relationship of Muslims and non-Muslims at the theological, social, political and economical levels.
www.dhimmitude.org   (355 words)

  
  Islam and Dhimmitude - TRUTH IS GOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dhimmitude has two aspects: one formed by the body of relationships with non-Muslims, contracted at the historical, social, theological, and juridical levels of the Muslim world; the other is determined by the varied reactions of the dhimmi peoples.
Dhimmitude embraces the condition of the dhimmi, which incorporates one of its stable elements, but any study of this status does not encompass the whole field of dhimmitude which evolves according to various factors.
Sacred texts justifying dhimmitude should be subjected to critical analysis by specialists, according to the deontological principles of historical exegesis as applied in the West, since the West itself is now directly concerned with this concept.
sathyavaadi.tripod.com /truthisgod/papers/020309.htm   (4437 words)

  
 Dhimmitude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word dhimmitude is a neologism, imported from the French language, and derived from the Arabic language word dhimmi.
Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians.
The term describes behavior that is the reverse of dhimmitude, a state of social and human subservience and cowed conduct that, according to writers such as Bat Ye'or, characterises non-Muslim minorities who live in Muslim majority areas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dhimmitude   (1411 words)

  
 Tao Of Defiance » Dhimmitude
Fjordman: The Scandinavian march towards totalitarianism (and dhimmitude).
Around the middle of the 7th century the Sassanid Empire of Persia, devastated by defeat at the hands of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire (an event referred to in the Koran as a “victory for believers”, because the Romans were Christians, and thus believing ‘People of the Book’), was overrun by invading Islamic Arab armies.
This story seems to have gone by almost unnoticed in the blogosphere (with the exception of here and here), but deserves more attention.
www.taoofdefiance.com /category/politics/dhimmitude   (7726 words)

  
 Jihad and Dhimmitude: Victimless Islamic Institutions?
Dhimmitude was abolished during the 19th and 20th centuries under European military pressure, or by direct European colonization.
The principles of "protection" and "toleration" integral to the system of dhimmitude are opposed to the values expressed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stress the equality of all human beings and the inalienability of their rights.
In stark contrast, the principles of "protection" and "tolerations" embodied in dhimmitude and shari’a law, emerge from a war of conquest.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4857   (1154 words)

  
 Dhimmitude Past and Present : An Invented or Real History?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Since dhimmitude is the result of a war of conquest, it comprises the study of the Jihad rules and of the modalities of the battles and the treatises with conquered peoples.
The condition of Christians in some modern Muslim states is inspired by the traditional rules of dhimmitude relating to the laws of blasphemy, mixed marriage and apostasy, or those concerning the building and repairing of churches, and of religious processions.
This is of particular interest to the historian of dhimmitude because it was the condition of the Jewish and Christian peasantries, so often referred to in their chronicles from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries.
www.sullivan-county.com /z/dhimmitude.htm   (5672 words)

  
 The Los Angeles Billboard Project
While jihadist groups, even with their global diffusion, are not strong enough to realize this goal by themselves, they have a potent and destructive ally, a genuine fifth column, in the dhimmi academics and dhimmi journalists they have recruited in the West.
The light of world attention is anathema to the proponents of jihad and dhimmitude: we have seen in recent years that women sentenced to stoning for adultery, often victims of rape unjustly accused thanks to Sharia laws disallowing rape victims' testimony, were freed following international outcry.
She is the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, and now also of the suicidal contemporary decline of Europe, which she details in her new book Eurabia.
jihadwatch.org /billboard.php   (1996 words)

  
 Bat Yeor on Dhimmitude on National Review Online
The basic aspects of the dhimmi mentality are related to characteristics of its status and environment, because dhimmitude operates exclusively within the sphere of jihad.
Europe's creeping dhimmitude, expressed in a refusal even to mention in its proposed constitution the "Judeo-Christian" values of its civilization, is one of the major elements of the current European-American divide.
The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-batyeor091803.asp   (1584 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: And Dhimmitude For All by Alyssa A. Lappen
Whereas Christian oppression in the East is “rooted in the doctrine of jihad” and dhimmitude, projecting all evil onto Israel and Zionism prevented testimony and hid Eastern Christian history and suffering.
Dhimmitude is also developing at universities and in governments worldwide.
To break the disastrous logjam created by this trend, it is essential to discuss the heretofore taboo subjects of jihad dhimmitude in policy and educational forums.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17637   (1349 words)

  
 Blue Star Chronicles
The resulting culture of self-abnegation, self-censorship and fear shared by far-flung dhimmi is the basis of dhimmitude.
The extremely distressing but highly significant fact is, dhimmitude doesn't only exist in lands where Islamic law rules.
And if that's not dhimmitude, what is? The publication of the Muhammad cartoons solicited by Denmark's Jyllands-Posten was an act of anti-dhimmitude.
bluestarchronicles.blogspot.com /2006/02/dhimmitude.html   (951 words)

  
 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)

  
 Is Europe a Province of Islam? The Danger is Called Dhimmitude
Dhimmitude and Marcionism." In it, the author shows how thirteen centuries of protection/submission imposed by Muslims on infidel populations has left a profound trace even in the way today's Europe relates to Islam.
Among the "services" performed by this "hidden dhimmitude" of Europe is a laxity in the face of Muslim immigration.
It's a dhimmitude that breathes new life into the teaching of Marcione, a second-century heretic who, to give maximum recognition to the loving God of the Gospel, denied any value to the Hebrew Scriptures, believed to be an expression of an unjust and cruel God.
science.co.il /Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/Magister-2003-03-20.asp   (731 words)

  
 D H I M M I :: Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights
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.
The protection of the Dhimmi is withdrawn if the Dhimmi rebels against Islamic law, gives allegiance to non-Muslim power (such as Israel), refuses to pay the poll-tax, entices a Muslim from his faith, or harms a Muslim or his property.
www.dhimmi.com /dhimmi_overview.htm   (313 words)

  
 Book Review: Islam and Dhimmitude - TRUTH IS GOD
Islam and Dhimmitude by the Egyptian born Bat Ye’or is a masterly study of the state of the Jews and Christians as Dhimmis, and the peculiar ‘Dhimmi Civilization’ that it gave rise to.
This point, that dhimmitude emasculates the dhimmi population by sapping its will to fight, would have been brought more clearly into focus had the author included India in her study, which she has not.
The author summarizes the underlying principles of the West’s dhimmitude in the following words: (1) Historical negationism consisting of suppressing in a page or a paragraph, one thousand years of jihad which is presented as a peaceful conquest, generally welcomed by the vanquished populations.
sathyavaadi.tripod.com /truthisgod/papers/020308.htm   (1750 words)

  
 Kim Priestap: Dhimmitude of Hindus
A lot has been written about dhimmitude, a new concept to many of us in the West, but primarily in the context of the cartoon riots: Muslims threatened to behead publishers and torched buildings and embassies in an effort to intimidate newspapers and governments into backing off of the publication of the cartoons.
Traditionally, dhimmitude is in reference to the oppression of Jews and Christians.
The concept of dhimmitude may be new to those of us in the West, but it’s been a constant battle for India and its citizens.
kimpriestap.typepad.com /kim_priestap/2006/03/dhimmitude_of_h.html   (770 words)

  
 Israpundit » Blog Archive » Eurabia, Dhimmitude, and the War Against Israel: Part I
Dhimmitude is the condition of servility and humiliation Jews and Christians suffered under Muslim rule.
Dhimmitude in Europe thus began with the subversion of its culture and values, with the destruction of its history.
Dhimmitude, which degraded Jews and Christians living under Muslim rule, is now instilling in Europeans a hatred for their own values and the wish to destroy their own origins and history.
www.israpundit.com /2006/?p=1537   (1771 words)

  
 Sandro Magister -- Is Europe a Province of Islam? The Danger is Called Dhimmitude
Dhimmitude and Marcionism." In it, the author shows how thirteen centuries of protection/submission imposed by Muslims on infidel populations has left a profound trace even in the way today's Europe relates to Islam.
Among the "services" performed by this "hidden dhimmitude" of Europe is a laxity in the face of Muslim immigration.
It's a dhimmitude that breathes new life into the teaching of Marcione, a second-century heretic who, to give maximum recognition to the loving God of the Gospel, denied any value to the Hebrew Scriptures, believed to be an expression of an unjust and cruel God.
www.orthodoxytoday.org /articles2/MagisterEurope.htm   (746 words)

  
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Dhimmitude is afgeleid van het Arabische woord dhimmi.
Het wonderlijkste aan het verschijnsel dhimmitude is dat het ook voorkomt waar de islam zich niet heeft meester gemaakt van de staatsmacht.
Zijn gedrag is alleen het vermelden waard omdat het een schoolvoorbeeld is van wat Bat Ye’or dhimmitude heeft gedoopt.
www.arabistjansen.nl /zimmitude.doc   (2021 words)

  
 The Dhimmitude of the West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Legal provisions applying to dhimmis ensured their humiliation and inferiority, and to this was added the often crippling taxes which were allocated to support the Muslim community.
Under conditions of dhimmitude there was also a constant risk of jihad conditions being reinvoked - of massacre and dispossession - if the dhimmi community is considered to have failed to live up to the conditions of their pact.
Like sexism and racism, dhimmitude is not only manifested in legal and social structures, but in a psychology of inferiority, a will to serve, which the dominated community adopts in self-preservation.
www.hvk.org /articles/1002/0.html   (1565 words)

  
 Dhimmis and Dhimmitude: History: Dhimmitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dhimmitude can only be understood in the context of jihad, because it originates from this ideology.
Dhimmitude covers more than a millennium of Christian and Jewish history, as well as of other groups.
The rules of dhimmitude obligatory under Islamic law, for Jews and Christians (dhimmis) living in Islamized lands, as explained by an Egyptian judge in 1772.
www.dhimmitude.org /d_history_dhimmitude.php   (963 words)

  
 Islam: La dhimmitude
L'univers de la dhimmitude a englobé des millions de personnes, il a couvert trois continents - Afrique, Asie, Europe - il a duré de treize siècles à quelques siècles selon les régions.
La dhimmitude vient du mot arabe "dhimmi" qui désignait les Juifs et les Chrétiens indigènes gouvernés et protégés par la loi islamique.
L'histoire de la dhimmitude est une histoire de souffrance et d'humiliation, d'usurpation de terres, de destruction de civilisations indigènes, d'exploitation fiscale des droits humains.
www.voxdei.org /afficher_info.php?id=16886.3   (2372 words)

  
 Enchiridion Militis · Dhimmitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Islamic apologists claim variously that the Prophet was forced into his wars — remarkably and regrettably often for a man of peace — or that the Caliphate’s conquests were perversions of Islam, or that those conquests were rationally defensible actions in the historical context.
I wrote that the Israeli war against Hezbollah is not a war against “Lebanon,” and I put the name of the country in quotes for a reason.
It is doubtful that they could articulate their deepest motives, the wellsprings of their actions and words, let alone cognize them, for there is more to this state of abasement than a few acts of cowardice, a few acts of ritual abasement, and a few jarring, new paeans to the wonders of respect for religion.
www.enchiridion-militis.com /?cat=18   (3970 words)

  
 SEMP - What is Dhimmitude?
Dhimmitude, acccording to Littman, is the dysfunctional state in which the entire Muslim world known today exists.
“Dhimmitude’s submission is due to insecurity, vulnerabilty, abasement, and the principle of purchasing one’s life thorugh tribute and excessive taxation.
Littman is most distressed with the subjugation during the past thirty years of the European continent to dhimmitude, stating that most non-Muslim Europeans have a “confused awareness” that something is amiss, but have not put it together yet the way it is, as she has articulated in her books.
www.semp.us /biots/biot_300.html   (1414 words)

  
 Dhimmi - Jews and Christians Under Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The first part of the book describes the state of affairs of the dhimmi, the basis and development for dhimmitude in Islam, and the relationship of the jihad, the war to conquer territory for Islam to the status of dhimmi.
The manner in which the rules of dhimmitude were applied varied according to the political circumstances and the disposition of the ruler.
The book is rich in sources both from Islam, from the communities subjected to dhimmitude, and from third party observations of the predicament that the restricted communities were subjected to.
www.jewishmag.com /57mag/dhimmi/dhimmi.htm   (1105 words)

  
 Dhimmitude Reaches America - Sean Hannity Discussion
Indeed, the website www.dhimmitude.org explains dhimmitude as the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system and describes the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule.
The word dhimmitude comes from dhimmi, an Arabic word meaning "protected." Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination.
Dhimmitude has followed this man from Egypt to America.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4708   (1139 words)

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