Dhimmitude.
That is one huge word I had never heard before.
There are lots of words I have never heard of before but this one came to me in the form of an email from a friend. Here is the definition from Wikipedia:
Dhimmitude is a neologism first found in French denoting an attitude of concession, surrender and appeasement towards Islamic demands. It is derived by adding the productive suffix -tude to the Arabic language adjective dhimmi, which literally means protected and refers to a non-Muslim subject of a sharia law state.
I was still lost so on I went to dhimmi.org here is there definition:
Dhimmitude: the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system. The word "dhimmitude" as a historical concept, was coined by Bat Ye'or in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule. The word "dhimmitude" comes from dhimmi, an Arabic word meaning "protected". Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination. Islamic conquests expanded over vast territories in Africa, Europe and Asia, for over a millennium (638-1683). The Muslim empire incorporated numerous varied peoples which had their own religion, culture, language and civilization. For centuries, these indigenous, pre-Islamic peoples constituted the great majority of the population of the Islamic lands. Although these populations differed, they were ruled by the same type of laws, based on the shari'a.
Interesting???
Here is more...the email was sharing a speech from our president. It was one of the words in his speech. From a man who professes to not be Muslim he certainly still seems to be comfortable with their language. Makes me curious as to what else he might be more comfortable with...
Don't mean to be starting an issue, just thoughts in my head.
Oh and it was a great vocabulary lesson for me and the
munchkins!!
Dhimmitude: the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system. The word "dhimmitude" as a historical concept, was coined by Bat Ye'or in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule. The word "dhimmitude" comes from dhimmi, an Arabic word meaning "protected". Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination. Islamic conquests expanded over vast territories in Africa, Europe and Asia, for over a millennium (638-1683). The Muslim empire incorporated numerous varied peoples which had their own religion, culture, language and civilization. For centuries, these indigenous, pre-Islamic peoples constituted the great majority of the population of the Islamic lands. Although these populations differed, they were ruled by the same type of laws, based on the shari'a.
Interesting???
Here is more...the email was sharing a speech from our president. It was one of the words in his speech. From a man who professes to not be Muslim he certainly still seems to be comfortable with their language. Makes me curious as to what else he might be more comfortable with...
Don't mean to be starting an issue, just thoughts in my head.
Oh and it was a great vocabulary lesson for me and the
munchkins!!
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