Transcript Overview of Dhimmitude

OVERVIEW
of
DHIMMITUDE
by
Lyle B., Ph.D.
September 23, 2008
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE (a)?
Dhimmi -- subjugated "protected people."
A formal agreement -- Muslims & dhimmis.
People of the Book only; others convert or
die.
Dhimmi status: denial of equality.
[Robert Spencer (all)]
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE (b)?
A humiliating form of semi-slavery.
A heavy poll tax (Jizya) required.
Always defer to a Muslim in public.
Limited practice of religion allowed.
[Robert Spencer (all)]
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE (c)?
Clothing – must be different than Muslims.
No ringing of bells.
No public display of wine or pork.
No public display of crosses.
[Robert Spencer (all)]
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE (d)?
No reciting Torah/Bible verses out loud.
No public display of funerals.
No public display of feast days.
Building height < Muslim buildings.
[Robert Spencer (all)]
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE (e)?
Cannot build new churches or synagogues.
Cannot repair religious buildings.
Must never lead a Muslim away from Islam.
Must never demean Allah, Islam, or Muslims.
[Robert Spencer (all)]
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE? (f)
Can’t complain -- may lead to violence.
Dhimmis -- cowed into silence; no rights.
Those who submitted did have “peace.”
Dhimmi legal codes justify slavery.
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE? (g)
Many Jews in Mohammed’s time gave up
and became dhimmi. [CSPI, p. 83]
Those dhimmi Jews taxed at 50% rate.
[CSPI, p. 83]
Many Jews been dhimmi under Islam.
[CSPI, p. 86]
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WHAT IS DHIMMITUDE? (h)
Modern-Day Israel:
The first time Middle Eastern Jews been “free” of
dhimmitude.
But not free of Islam – rockets & suicide
bombers…
[CSPI, p. 86]
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MODERN DHIMMITUDE IN USA (a)
MC – Multiculturalism…
PC – Political Correctness…
Leads to limitations of free speech.
Prohibits kafirs from telling truth.
Helps promote creeping Sharia.
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MODERN DHIMMITUDE IN USA (b)
Prior to 9/11 MC & PC whitewash okay.
After 9/11, we must be more careful.
Overlooking political Islam is type of dhimmi.
Creeping Sharia: a social problem, not military.
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MODERN DHIMMITUDE IN USA (c)
Truth designated as “hate speech”
Hides the evils of jihad– current & past.
Hides evils of dhimmitude.
Such silence & distortion may be deadly.
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MODERN DHIMMITUDE IN USA (d)
Gloss-over plays into hands of jihadists.
Many in Western world are blinded by MC
& PC.
This only serves the jihadist goals.
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SELECTED QUOTES
RE DHIMMITUDE (a)
“… It is, however, strictly forbidden for a
dhimmi to try to convert a Muslim to his
religion, and if by any mischance he
succeeds, the penalty for apostasy is
death...
[Bernard Lewis, p. 53]
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SELECTED QUOTES
RE DHIMMITUDE (b)
“The policies of dhimmitude are clearly
seen in Europe in the decades-long
taboo of condemning the persecution
of Christians and the violation of
human rights in Muslim countries...”
[Bat Ye’or, p. 331]
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SELECTED QUOTES
RE DHIMMITUDE (c.1)
‘This abstentionist policy by Europe,
while claiming to defind human rights,
obeys a fundamental law of
dhimmitude: dhimmi minorities are
forbidden on pain of death to appeal
for help to outsiders, or to propagate
ideas considered hostile to Islam.
(continued)
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SELECTED QUOTES
RE DHIMMITUDE (c.2)
Dhimmis who request help from
Christian counties are deprived of all
the rights and privileges they had
obtained through the dhimma tribute
agreement and “of the right of
immunity of life and property.”’
[Bat Ye’or, p. 331]
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
(RS) Robert Spencer, Dhimmitude,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/#
(BY) Bat Ye’or. Islam and Dhimmitude, Where Civilizations
Collide. Fairleigh dickinson University Press, 2002.
(CSPI) Center for the Study of Political Islam, Mohammed,
Allah, and Politics, The Islamic Trilogy, Volume 10.
WWW.CSPIPUBLISHING.COM, 2007.
(BL) Bernard Lewis. Islam and the West. Oxford University
Press, 1993.
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