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abokihater:
Nice writeup, i reject being a slave in my country.

Nice writeup, i reject being a slave in my country.

SluttanSlayer:
In the early years of the Islamic conquest, the "tribute" (or jizya), paid as a yearly poll tax, symbolized the subordination of the dhimmi. Later, the inferior status of Jews and Christians was reinforced through a series of regulations that governed the behavior of the dhimmi. In Buhari's Khalifate Nijeriya, southern kafirs do not only bear the tax burden but their resources are what sustains the socialist welfare Islamic north.

Dhimmis, on pain of death, were forbidden to mock or criticize the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize among Muslims or to touch a Muslim woman (though a Muslim man could take a non Muslim as a wife). Under Buhari, we have read severally of how Christian girls are being abducted and forced into an unholy union by Muslim men whom have the full endorsement and backing of not only the muslim populace, Amirs but the state itself.

Dhimmis were excluded from public office and armed service, and were forbidden to bear arms. This has already become institutionalized by the highly lopsided appointments of security chiefs favouring northern Muslims and the purging of Southerners/ Christians from the military by the Buhari Islamic govt.

They were not allowed to ride horses or camels, to build synagogues or churches taller than mosques, to construct houses higher than those of Muslims or to drink wine in public.

They were not allowed to pray or mourn in loud voices-as that might offend the Muslims.
This is what El Rufai is pushing in Kaduna with his diabolical religious bill.

The dhimmi had to show public deference toward Muslims-always yielding them the center of the road.

The dhimmi was not allowed to give evidence in court against a Muslim, and his oath was unacceptable in an Islamic court.

To defend himself, the dhimmi would have to purchase Muslim witnesses at great expense. This left the dhimmi with little legal recourse when harmed by a Muslim. The case of the elderly Igbo woman murdered in Kano and whose killers have all since been released by the Kano State govt comes to mind.

Dhimmis were also forced to wear distinctive clothing. In the ninth century, for example, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews, setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany.

SluttanSlayer:
The law required from dhimmis a humble demeanor, eyes lowered, a hurried pace.

They had to give way to Muslims in the street, remain standing in their presence and keep silent, only speaking to them when given permission.

They were forbidden to defend themselves if attacked, or to raise a hand against a Muslim on pain of having it amputated. Buhari mader this clear with how he sent the Air Force to bomb christian communities in Numan, Adamawa after they dared to retaliate and protect themselves from Buhari's Fulani jihadists.

Any criticism of the Koran or Islamic law annulled the protection pact. In addition the dhimmi was duty-bound to be grateful, since it was Islamic law that spared his life. We saw this pan out when Buhari condemned a band of coward muslim men who beheaded an octogenarian Igbo woman in Kano. Buhari's condemnation wasn't that they murdered an old woman in cold blood but because they took the laws into their hands. Meaning: Buhari already sided with the cowards that yes indeed the old Igbo woman did in fact slander Islam. Less than a week later, the Kano State Attorney-General will withdraw all charges against their jihadist cowards.

SluttanSlayer:
What is a Dhimmi? A Kafir?

These terms have related meanings. Kafir is the broader term. Dhimmi is the legally invoked status of a Kafir.

A Kafir is a non-believer, an infidel, or an ingrate to the Islamic faith. A Dhimmi is alway a Kafir. But a Kafir is not always a Dhimmi.

A Dhimmi is a person who is a non-Muslim in a Muslim dominated society. Dhimmi is the subordinate legal status given to the kafir to "protect" him. Why is protection needed? Because Muslims are called upon to kill infidels as the general rule. The creation of the Dhimmi status was a way to offer protection to the infidel in exchange for fees or taxes, and a reduced level of cultural benefits or freedoms, like voting.

If you are an infidel, it is a good idea to be a Dhimmi in a Muslim culture. Without being a Dhimmi you would be in violation of the rules, and the "other" option would be on the table, so to speak.

In Sharia operated northern Nigeria, non-muslims are "protected" and need timely re-assurances from both Secular and Islamic authorities of their safety and well being as can be discerned from the Sultan's chagrin to his Muslim population not to harm the infidel Igbos residing in the north.

Dhimmitude is a more recently developed broader term implying those in a non-Islamic dominated society who are being intimidated or terrorized in some manner and are accordingly fearful of taking action to counteract their condition.

Bat Yeor's definition of "dhimmitude" (from Wiki):

"As for the concept of dhimmitude, it represents a behavior dictated by fear (terrorism), pacifism when aggressed, rather than resistance, servility because of cowardice and vulnerability. The origin of this concept is to be found in the condition of the Infidel people who submit to the Islamic rule without fighting in order to avoid the onslaught of jihad. By their peaceful surrender to the Islamic army, they obtained the security for their life, belongings and religion, but they had to accept a condition of inferiority, spoliation and humiliation. As they were forbidden to possess weapons and give testimony against a Muslim, they were put in a position of vulnerability and humility."

The Koranic verse which dictates this fundamental character for dhimmitude is Sura 9:29:

"Fight against those who do not believe in Allah nor in the Last Day, and do not make forbidden what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, of those who have been given the Book [i.e. Jews and Christians], until they pay the jizya [head tax] readily and are humbled."

Within the Islamic state, all non-Muslims who are not objects of war are considered to be dhimmis - communities who are allowed to exist within the Dar al-Islam by virtue of surrender under the conditions of a dhimmi pact.

These are the permanently conquered peoples of Islam.

The historian Bat Ye'or has documented the social, political, economic and religious conditions of dhimmi communities - Jews and Christians - in the Middle East. It is a sad history of dispossession and decline. Legal provisions applying to dhimmis ensured their humiliation and inferiority, and to this was added the often crippling taxes which were allocated to support the Muslim community.

Under conditions of dhimmitude there was also a constant risk of jihad conditions being reinvoked - of massacre and dispossession - if the dhimmi community is considered to have failed to live up to the conditions of their pact. History records many examples where dhimmis were attacked by their fellow Muslim citizens on such grounds, for example the massacres of the Jews of Granada in 1066, and of the Christians of Damascus in 1860.

Like sexism and racism, dhimmitude is not only manifested in legal and social structures, but in a psychology of inferiority, a will to serve, which the dominated community adopts in self-preservation (see modern day Afonjas of Ilorin).

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