Via Michelle Malkin:
Diana West, columnist for the Washington Times, says in her recent column that if we don't fight back against the fanatical Islamic jihadists' attempts to subjugate us and our freedoms then we will find ourselves living as dhimmis:
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.
There were literal taxes (jizya) to be paid; these bought the dhimmi the right to remain non-Muslim, the price not of religious freedom, but of religious identity. Freedom was lost, sorely circumscribed by a body of Islamic law (sharia) designed to subjugate, denigrate and humiliate the dhimmi. 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.
In otherwords, even if we live in the United States, by surrendering to the rioting, destruction, and death threats that fanatical Islamic jihadists perpetrate when they feel their religious sensibilities have been offended, we find ourselves living in the oppressive state of dhimmitude.
Read all of Diana West's article.
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