We need to learn a new word: dhimmitude ... 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 ... 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.
This is the lesson of Cartoon Rage 2006 ... We have watched the Muslim meltdown with shocked attention, but there is little recognition that its poisonous fallout is fear ... With only a small roll of brave journals, mainly in Europe, to salute, we have seen the proud Western tradition of a free press bow its head and submit to an Islamic law against depictions of Muhammad. That's dhimmitude.
As far as I know, the only paper in the Northwest to publish the cartoons is The Stranger. (It's also keeping the issue alive on its blog). The Seattle Weekly didn't publish the cartoons, but published a stronger editorial about them than the local dailies did. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times (Dhimes?) are cheerfully leading the way into dhimmitude. And the way things are going, it will only get worse. As Andrew Sullivan puts it:
It's amazing how quickly the Jihadists have succeeded in intimidating the West into giving up critical freedoms in a matter of days. Now, wait till they have a nuke.
And our local dhimmis seem just fine with that scenario too.
Well done to: SOUND POLITICS
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