It's A Bad Time For Us To Be So Naive

  A well-meaning friend of mine shared a Wikipedia article about the system of Dhimmitude, in which Islamic nations "generously" permit non-Muslims to stay alive if they pay protection money ("Jizya") and accept being social inferiors. I replied to my friend thus:

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Thank you, __________ ; but note that this article does all it can to make Muslims look good.

One crucial fact is almost buried in the article. See this sentence: "Bernard Lewis remarks about Khomeini that one of his main grievances against the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was that his legislation allowed the theoretical possibility of non-Muslims exercising political or judicial authority over Muslims." It was Khomeini who was the true Koranic Muslim, wanting to preserve the status quo of Dhimmi being ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS.

Scimitarists are experts with euphemism. The Dhimmi being "protected" really means they are HELD DOWN. They are not allowed to testify in court against Muslims; and OF COURSE they can and will be put to death if they are heard saying anything which contradicts Islam.

To the extent that Dhimmi have actually been protected, it's been because they were useful underlings-- ALWAYS underlings. Because Muslims are not supposed to enslave other Muslims, it was very useful to the Turkish Empire to have a supply of Christians whom they WERE allowed to enslave. Many thousands of Christian boys were abducted and forced to become soldiers, known as Janissaries, in the service of the sultans.

If today's Islamists ever succeed in conquering America, no pretense of our being "protected" will be much consolation for our being gagged and censored, unable to hold any high office, forbidden to possess means of personal self-defense, and aware that our daughters might at any time be raped by Scimitarist men-- who then would pretend that our daughters "enticed" them.

I am perfectly capable of being friendly to Muslims; but this does not obligate me to pretend that I don't know what their leaders really mean when they say "Islam is peace." The actual AND ONLY definition of "peace," in the minds of imams and mullahs, is "Islamic regimes having complete life-and-death power over everyone."