xchagalxGiven the state of conditions in the Mid-East and other parts of the world, this is a timely primer on what Mohammad had in mind for those of us not of the Islamic faith. It's worth the 20 or so minutes you devote to it. If you find yourself wanting more, try THE SWORD OF THE PROPHET by Serge Trafkovic. The author is one identified by Muslim apologists as 'politically incorrect' about the subject at hand.
Dhimmitude for DummiesBy Victor Sharpe, Israel Hasbara Committee >From Frontpagemag.com.September 26, 2006http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24592Ask one hundred people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps two orthree might know. In Western Europe the number would be slightly higher becauseof latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies overhundreds of years. In 732, Charles Martel led his Frankish forces at Tours to victory against anIslamic invasion of France, which nearly destroyed Christian Europe.Similarly, Islam was ousted from Spain in 1492 after an occupation of theIberian Peninsula by the Moslems for hundreds of years. Sadly, the SpanishChristian monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, and the Portuguese a few yearslater, also expelled the Jewish community although the Jews had lived in Spainand Portugal for many centuries and had never posed a threat to either Moslem orChristian sovereignty.In Italy, Islamic power was brought to an end when the heavy Turkish galleyswere defeated by Venetian galleasses at the great naval battle of Lepanto in1571. And the Moslem Ottoman power, which at its height again threatened all ofWestern Europe, was barely turned back at the gates of Vienna on 11 September1683 by a coalition of European armies. Incidentally, could there be aconnection 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 andsubjugation set against a history of victorious Moslem invasions and conqueststhat 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 themthe story was one of forced conversions to Islam, slavery, death and the Islamicinstitution of dhimmitude.This is the word that describes the parlous state of those who refused toconvert to Islam and became the subjugated, non-Muslims who were forced toaccept a restrictive and humiliating subordination to a superior Islamic powerand live as second class citizens in order to avoid enslavement or death. Thesepeoples and populations were known as dhimmis, and if such a status was nothumiliating enough, a special tax or tribute, called the jizya, was imposed uponthem and upon all dhimmis.Dhimmitude is the direct outcome of jihad, which is the military conquest ofnon-Islamic territory mandated by Allah as a spiritual obligation for everyindividual Moslem and Moslem nation.>From its beginnings in the seventh century, Islam spread through violentconquest of non-Moslem lands. In the eighth century, a formal set of rules togovern relationships between Moslems and non-Moslems was created based uponMoslem conquests of non-Moslem peoples. These rules were based upon jihad, whichestablished how the Moslems would treat the conquered non-Moslems in terms oftheir submission to Islam.Jihad can be pursued through force or other means such as propaganda, writing,or subversion against the perceived enemy. The so-called enemies are those whooppose the establishment of Islamic law or its spread, mission, or sovereigntyover them and their land.Propaganda and subversion are the very means now being employed against the Westand Judeo-Christian civilization, and Islamists have shown themselves to bebrilliantly adept at manipulating the gullible and uninformed western media inpursuit of their aims of world domination.As I have written in previous articles, non-Islamic lands are considered the daral-harb, the "house of war," until they submit to Islamic rule and enter the daral-Islam. The 'infidel' falls into three categories: those who resist Islam withforce, those living in a country that has a temporary truce with Islam, andthose who have surrendered to Islam by exchanging land for peace.Since the Oslo Accords, successive Israeli governments have been guilty of thenow thoroughly discredited notion of "land for peace" in which Israel gives awayland but never receives peace. Even the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan arecold at best and the lands given away to Lebanon and the Arab Palestinians hasbeen a calamitous error. The belief that Moslem Arab powers respond to overturesof peace by ending their aggression is but a mirage in the desert. This isproven time and again to be a delusion and is, in fact, a classic example of themindset and behavior of the dhimmi.A non-Moslem community forced to accept dhimmitude is condemned to live in asystem that will only protect it from jihad if it is subservient to the Moslemmaster. In return, it is guaranteed limited rights under a system ofdiscriminations that it must accept, or face forced conversion, slavery, ordeath.In the early years of the Islamic conquests, the "tribute" or jizya was paid asa yearly poll tax, which symbolized the subordination of the dhimmi.Later, the inferior status of Jews and Christians was reinforced through aseries of regulations that governed the behavior of the dhimmi. Jews andChristians were awarded a different status than other faiths. They wereconsidered to be under protection as "people of the book." People ofnon-monotheistic faiths, pagans, or atheists were simply to be exterminated.According to Mitchell G. Bard, who has written extensively on the subject andproduced the excellent rebuttal to Arab and pro-Arab propaganda in his book,Myths and Facts, "... dhimmis, on pain of death, were forbidden to mock orcriticize the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize among Moslems or to toucha Moslem woman (though a Moslem man could take a non--Moslem as a wife)."Dhimmis were excluded from public office and armed service, and were forbiddento bear arms. They were not allowed to ride horses or camels, to buildsynagogues or churches taller than mosques, to construct houses higher thanthose of Muslims or to drink wine in public. They were not allowed to pray ormourn in loud voices as that might offend the Moslems."The dhimmi had to show public deference toward Moslems, always yielding themthe center of the road. The dhimmi was not allowed to give evidence in courtagainst a Moslem, and his oath was unacceptable in an Islamic court.To defend himself the dhimmi would have to purchase Moslem witnesses at greatexpense. This left the dhimmi with little legal recourse when harmed by aMoslem."Dhimmis were also forced to wear distinctive clothing. In the ninth century,for example, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews,setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later."By the twentieth century, the status of the dhimmi in Moslem lands had notsignificantly improved. H.E.W. Young, British Vice-Consul in Mosul, wrote in1909:"The attitude of the Muslims toward the Christians and the Jews is that of amaster towards slaves, whom he treats with a certain lordly tolerance so long asthey keep their place. Any sign of pretension to equality is promptlyrepressed."The concept of jihad is not something now discarded by Islam as a quaint beliefappropriate to the distant past. On the contrary, it is a cardinal belief in the21st century for Moslems based upon Koranic injunctions. It is believed in bymillions of Moslems around the Third world, as much as by Moslems living inAmerica, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It is a belief,passionately held, that one day the entire world will become Islamic and acceptcompletely the will of Allah.It is vital, therefore, that the general public in every non-Moslem country bemade aware that Moslems consider themselves in a perpetual state of war withtheir non-Moslem neighbors. If Islamic armies are unable to defeat what theyconsider the "infidels," (that's you and me), then a period of "truce"exists, which has several conditions. These include allowing Islam to bepropagated, and if a non-Moslem nation forbids it or rejects mass proselytizingto Islam, then that nation will be considered as subject to holy jihad.Sheikh Zayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaida's second in command, recently invitedAmerica to embrace Islam. The invitation is always given, according to someexperts, prior to a major assault upon the "infidel nation," because anyrejection is considered by Moslems as an empirical reason to wage war upon thenon-Moslem state; in this case the United States of America.It is nearly impossible for sophisticated and secularized Western and Europeanelites to understand or accept such medieval concepts, let alone the idea that areligious war is being waged against them. But their dismissal and amuseddisregard of what is taking place is as calamitous as that exemplified by themyopic politicians in Britain and America before the Second World War.The lone voice in the wilderness at that time, Winston Churchill, appealed invain to the political leaders who had not the ears to hear or the eyes to seethe growing fascist menace during the 1930s posed by Germany and Italy.He called one such British politician an "epileptic corpse," and reached backthrough his prodigious memory to find a poem, which characterized the failure ofthe Baldwin government in 1935 to re-arm. The apt poem was, The ClatteringTrain, which could equally be applied to the later appeasement of Hitler byNeville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax."Those in charge of the clattering train, the axles creak and the couplingsstrain. The pace is hot and the points are near and sleep has deadened thedriver's air. The signals flash in the night in vain, for death is in charge ofthe clattering train."Western notions of peaceful co-existence between states, human rights andliberal democracy are all alien to the bin-Ladens and Zawahiris of the Islamicworld. Hizbullah, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Al Qaida, adnauseum, all reject Judeo-Christian civilization as being in theological error.For them, the entire human race must embrace Allah's pre-eminence and the Moslembeliever is the divine instrument to bring about the "Umma" (worldwide Moslemcommunity) in whatever way possible, including warfare and terror.Jihad has reappeared as a way of wiping out the humiliation the Arab and Moslemworld has felt as Western power became ascendant, especially after the defeat ofthe Ottoman Turkish Empire at the end of the First World War.With a fabulous and never ending flow of petrodollars pouring into Arab andMoslem coffers, the belief among Moslems is that the time is now right for Islamto reassert itself in dominating the world and bringing it to Allah through allout war, including nuclear war, if necessary.The corollary to jihad is dhimmitude. This is what appeasement by non-Moslems toIslamist threats and terror leads to. Winston Churchill would have been shockedbut not surprised at the craven appeasement displayed by today's elitists in theEuropean political echelons.It is in marked contrast to the manner in which their ancestors confronted anearlier existential Islamic threat when they defeated decisively the Moslems atTours, Iberia (Spain and Portugal), Lepanto and Vienna.But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamist aggression andIslamo-fascism we may all be faced, sooner than we think, with the choice offorced 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.==================DISCLAIMER: The views exchanged in NIPmail are those of individual members and do not necessarily represent the views of the Naval Intelligence Professionals organization nor its officers and directors. For more info: http://www.navintpro.org
Dhimmitude for DummiesBy Victor Sharpe, Israel Hasbara Committee >From Frontpagemag.com.September 26, 2006http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24592Ask one hundred people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps two orthree might know. In Western Europe the number would be slightly higher becauseof latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies overhundreds of years. In 732, Charles Martel led his Frankish forces at Tours to victory against anIslamic invasion of France, which nearly destroyed Christian Europe.Similarly, Islam was ousted from Spain in 1492 after an occupation of theIberian Peninsula by the Moslems for hundreds of years. Sadly, the SpanishChristian monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, and the Portuguese a few yearslater, also expelled the Jewish community although the Jews had lived in Spainand Portugal for many centuries and had never posed a threat to either Moslem orChristian sovereignty.In Italy, Islamic power was brought to an end when the heavy Turkish galleyswere defeated by Venetian galleasses at the great naval battle of Lepanto in1571. And the Moslem Ottoman power, which at its height again threatened all ofWestern Europe, was barely turned back at the gates of Vienna on 11 September1683 by a coalition of European armies. Incidentally, could there be aconnection 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 andsubjugation set against a history of victorious Moslem invasions and conqueststhat 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 themthe story was one of forced conversions to Islam, slavery, death and the Islamicinstitution of dhimmitude.This is the word that describes the parlous state of those who refused toconvert to Islam and became the subjugated, non-Muslims who were forced toaccept a restrictive and humiliating subordination to a superior Islamic powerand live as second class citizens in order to avoid enslavement or death. Thesepeoples and populations were known as dhimmis, and if such a status was nothumiliating enough, a special tax or tribute, called the jizya, was imposed uponthem and upon all dhimmis.Dhimmitude is the direct outcome of jihad, which is the military conquest ofnon-Islamic territory mandated by Allah as a spiritual obligation for everyindividual Moslem and Moslem nation.>From its beginnings in the seventh century, Islam spread through violentconquest of non-Moslem lands. In the eighth century, a formal set of rules togovern relationships between Moslems and non-Moslems was created based uponMoslem conquests of non-Moslem peoples. These rules were based upon jihad, whichestablished how the Moslems would treat the conquered non-Moslems in terms oftheir submission to Islam.Jihad can be pursued through force or other means such as propaganda, writing,or subversion against the perceived enemy. The so-called enemies are those whooppose the establishment of Islamic law or its spread, mission, or sovereigntyover them and their land.Propaganda and subversion are the very means now being employed against the Westand Judeo-Christian civilization, and Islamists have shown themselves to bebrilliantly adept at manipulating the gullible and uninformed western media inpursuit of their aims of world domination.As I have written in previous articles, non-Islamic lands are considered the daral-harb, the "house of war," until they submit to Islamic rule and enter the daral-Islam. The 'infidel' falls into three categories: those who resist Islam withforce, those living in a country that has a temporary truce with Islam, andthose who have surrendered to Islam by exchanging land for peace.Since the Oslo Accords, successive Israeli governments have been guilty of thenow thoroughly discredited notion of "land for peace" in which Israel gives awayland but never receives peace. Even the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan arecold at best and the lands given away to Lebanon and the Arab Palestinians hasbeen a calamitous error. The belief that Moslem Arab powers respond to overturesof peace by ending their aggression is but a mirage in the desert. This isproven time and again to be a delusion and is, in fact, a classic example of themindset and behavior of the dhimmi.A non-Moslem community forced to accept dhimmitude is condemned to live in asystem that will only protect it from jihad if it is subservient to the Moslemmaster. In return, it is guaranteed limited rights under a system ofdiscriminations that it must accept, or face forced conversion, slavery, ordeath.In the early years of the Islamic conquests, the "tribute" or jizya was paid asa yearly poll tax, which symbolized the subordination of the dhimmi.Later, the inferior status of Jews and Christians was reinforced through aseries of regulations that governed the behavior of the dhimmi. Jews andChristians were awarded a different status than other faiths. They wereconsidered to be under protection as "people of the book." People ofnon-monotheistic faiths, pagans, or atheists were simply to be exterminated.According to Mitchell G. Bard, who has written extensively on the subject andproduced the excellent rebuttal to Arab and pro-Arab propaganda in his book,Myths and Facts, "... dhimmis, on pain of death, were forbidden to mock orcriticize the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize among Moslems or to toucha Moslem woman (though a Moslem man could take a non--Moslem as a wife)."Dhimmis were excluded from public office and armed service, and were forbiddento bear arms. They were not allowed to ride horses or camels, to buildsynagogues or churches taller than mosques, to construct houses higher thanthose of Muslims or to drink wine in public. They were not allowed to pray ormourn in loud voices as that might offend the Moslems."The dhimmi had to show public deference toward Moslems, always yielding themthe center of the road. The dhimmi was not allowed to give evidence in courtagainst a Moslem, and his oath was unacceptable in an Islamic court.To defend himself the dhimmi would have to purchase Moslem witnesses at greatexpense. This left the dhimmi with little legal recourse when harmed by aMoslem."Dhimmis were also forced to wear distinctive clothing. In the ninth century,for example, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews,setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later."By the twentieth century, the status of the dhimmi in Moslem lands had notsignificantly improved. H.E.W. Young, British Vice-Consul in Mosul, wrote in1909:"The attitude of the Muslims toward the Christians and the Jews is that of amaster towards slaves, whom he treats with a certain lordly tolerance so long asthey keep their place. Any sign of pretension to equality is promptlyrepressed."The concept of jihad is not something now discarded by Islam as a quaint beliefappropriate to the distant past. On the contrary, it is a cardinal belief in the21st century for Moslems based upon Koranic injunctions. It is believed in bymillions of Moslems around the Third world, as much as by Moslems living inAmerica, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It is a belief,passionately held, that one day the entire world will become Islamic and acceptcompletely the will of Allah.It is vital, therefore, that the general public in every non-Moslem country bemade aware that Moslems consider themselves in a perpetual state of war withtheir non-Moslem neighbors. If Islamic armies are unable to defeat what theyconsider the "infidels," (that's you and me), then a period of "truce"exists, which has several conditions. These include allowing Islam to bepropagated, and if a non-Moslem nation forbids it or rejects mass proselytizingto Islam, then that nation will be considered as subject to holy jihad.Sheikh Zayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaida's second in command, recently invitedAmerica to embrace Islam. The invitation is always given, according to someexperts, prior to a major assault upon the "infidel nation," because anyrejection is considered by Moslems as an empirical reason to wage war upon thenon-Moslem state; in this case the United States of America.It is nearly impossible for sophisticated and secularized Western and Europeanelites to understand or accept such medieval concepts, let alone the idea that areligious war is being waged against them. But their dismissal and amuseddisregard of what is taking place is as calamitous as that exemplified by themyopic politicians in Britain and America before the Second World War.The lone voice in the wilderness at that time, Winston Churchill, appealed invain to the political leaders who had not the ears to hear or the eyes to seethe growing fascist menace during the 1930s posed by Germany and Italy.He called one such British politician an "epileptic corpse," and reached backthrough his prodigious memory to find a poem, which characterized the failure ofthe Baldwin government in 1935 to re-arm. The apt poem was, The ClatteringTrain, which could equally be applied to the later appeasement of Hitler byNeville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax."Those in charge of the clattering train, the axles creak and the couplingsstrain. The pace is hot and the points are near and sleep has deadened thedriver's air. The signals flash in the night in vain, for death is in charge ofthe clattering train."Western notions of peaceful co-existence between states, human rights andliberal democracy are all alien to the bin-Ladens and Zawahiris of the Islamicworld. Hizbullah, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Al Qaida, adnauseum, all reject Judeo-Christian civilization as being in theological error.For them, the entire human race must embrace Allah's pre-eminence and the Moslembeliever is the divine instrument to bring about the "Umma" (worldwide Moslemcommunity) in whatever way possible, including warfare and terror.Jihad has reappeared as a way of wiping out the humiliation the Arab and Moslemworld has felt as Western power became ascendant, especially after the defeat ofthe Ottoman Turkish Empire at the end of the First World War.With a fabulous and never ending flow of petrodollars pouring into Arab andMoslem coffers, the belief among Moslems is that the time is now right for Islamto reassert itself in dominating the world and bringing it to Allah through allout war, including nuclear war, if necessary.The corollary to jihad is dhimmitude. This is what appeasement by non-Moslems toIslamist threats and terror leads to. Winston Churchill would have been shockedbut not surprised at the craven appeasement displayed by today's elitists in theEuropean political echelons.It is in marked contrast to the manner in which their ancestors confronted anearlier existential Islamic threat when they defeated decisively the Moslems atTours, Iberia (Spain and Portugal), Lepanto and Vienna.But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamist aggression andIslamo-fascism we may all be faced, sooner than we think, with the choice offorced 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.==================DISCLAIMER: The views exchanged in NIPmail are those of individual members and do not necessarily represent the views of the Naval Intelligence Professionals organization nor its officers and directors. For more info: http://www.navintpro.org
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