No sooner had our keyboard cooled off after posting our first entry in this ambitious series, than we ran across this from Fjordman, who provides a little more analysis than our humble bulleted list.
Andrew Bostom has demonstrated in his book The Legacy of Jihad that the basic patterns have remained remarkably similar throughout the centuries, regardless of whether the non-Muslims in question were Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists. Jihad and dhimmitude frequently have less to do with huge terror attacks or spectacular invasions than with accumulated daily humiliations and insults. A small group of Muslims move into an area, then gradually expand their numbers and with continuous verbal and physical harassment of non-Muslims and sexual harassment of their women force them to leave their homes or convert to Islam."Muslim Violence — Crime or Jihad?" By Fjordman, Gates of Vienna, 3/16/07 (emphasis added, links in original).
Contribution I.
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