The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

The Politically Incorrect Guide #o Islam (andthe Crusades}

Ju stLi ke To da y:Mus li m le ad er scall for
restorationof thedhimma

Sure, Jews and Christ ians lived as dhimmi s in the old Islami c empir es, but that's a reli c

ofth e pa st , ri gh t? No Mu sl im s wa nt to re in st it ut e dh im mi st at us fo r th em

to da y, do th ey ?Of course they do. Sheik hOmar Bakri Muham mad, a contr oversi al

pro-Osama Musli m leade r in Great Brita in, wrote in Octob er 2002 that even though

there was no calip h in the Islami c work today. hat didn't mean Musli ms could sj,mpl y

kill unbel iever s. He affirme d that they must stil l beoffer ed the choic e to live subje ct to

the Musli ms; " We cannot simpl y say that becau se we haveno Khilaf ah [calip hate] we

can just go ahead and kill any non-Musli m, rather we must still fulfilltheirDhimma.'

Likewise. Sheikh Yussef Salameh, the Palestinian Authority's undersecretary for

religiousendowme nt, in May 1999 prais ed the idea that Christ ians shoul d become

dhimmi s under Musli mrule , and such sugge stio ns have beco me more commo n sinc e

the seco nd inti fada bega n in October 2OO0,""

In a recent Fridaysermonat a mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Marzouq Salem AI-Ghamdi

spelled out the Sharia' injunctions for dhimmis;

If the infidels live among the Muslims, in accordance with the conditions set out by the

prophet—there is nothing wrong with itprovided they payJizyato the Islamic

treasury. Other conditionsare... thattheydonot renovate a Church or a monastery,

do not rebuild ones thatwere destroyed,that they feed for three days any Muslim who

passesby their homes. ,. that they rise when a Muslim wishesto sit. that they do not

imitate Muslims in dressandspeech, nor ride horses. nor ownswords, norarm

themselveswithany kindofweapon: that theydonotselfwine,donotshowthe cross,

donotringchurchbells, donot raisetheirvoicesduringprayer, that they shavetheir

hairinfront so as to make themeasilyidentifiable, do not incite anyone against the

Muslims, and do notstrike a Muslim...if they violate these conditions, they have no

protection.''