dhimmi

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Perhaps being a dhimmi is good for him, but it's been historically bad for the rest of us.

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  • "I am not a dhimmi," Iwang said with his customary calm. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The dhimmi, or people of the pact, were those non-believers who were born and lived their lives in the khanate, who had to pay a special tax. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Islam was the religion of justice, and all Muslims were equal before God and the law; but of the lesser ones, women, slaves and the dhimmi, the dhimmi were the ones who could change their status by a simple decision to convert to true belief. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • What's in question is a classic case of Christian Europe resorting to its traditional role of a "dhimmi" in the face of historical Islamic intimidation and violence. —  Tundra Tabloids.......
  • The dhimmi (Muslim contemptuous term referring to non-Muslims as lower in status) Americans just grinned; the women obediently donning modesty scarves and flowing robes to cover -- for the first time in public -- their arms, legs and breasts. —  American Thinker
 

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