From Billy Ockham blog
Friday, May 02, 2008
Dhimmitude
Under Sharia (Islamic law) a Jew or Christian is known as a 'dhimmi'.
This status affords the person some protection under the law. Pagans,
for example, may be summarily killed. A dhimmi has to be tried.
Unfortunately, their testimony is inadmissible in an Islamic court so
it isn't necessarily a fair trial, but there you are.
Ever since I finished Tom Kratman's rather good novel Caliphate (And
blogged on it twice), I've been reading up on Muslim-non-Muslim
relations. I had been somewhat skeptical about how messed up an
Islamic state could be. Unfortunately, he has soft peddled how
illiberal Islam truly is.
I still do not believe that there will be a wave of jihads or that
most Muslims want such a thing. But if they win the reproduction race
in Europe, then Sharia may be a reality for some or all of Western
Europe.
I also still believe that freedom is corrosive to tyranny. One of the
reasons that you only find Commies in Cuba and Ann Arbor is that
prolonged exposure to the marketplace of ideas tests the merits of any
ideology. The Soviet Union collapsed because of the vision of two men
and the destruction of its underlying ideology.
Unfortunately, Europe is in the grip of the negative ideology of post
modernistic despair. This has led to a massive erosion of liberty
there (and less so, here) as well as enervating the will of Europeans
to resist bad ideas. Lacking any real sense of community (because
nationalism is bad) and with less of a sense of family (because the
State has assumed those functions) than previously, the Europeans have
been rendered atomistic, with little desire to work for the benefit of
others, and narcissistic.
Demographically then, Europe is doomed. However, there is always the
possibility that the demographics may turn around. On a primal level,
women have babies because of hope. If Europe rediscovers hope, then
there may very well be more children.
Posted by Matthew at 8:28 AM
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