to:tariq, part 2 Dhimmism.

Submitted by dianamoon12 (United States), Dec 7, 2005 at 21:06

I appreciate the "non-hostile" tone of your post. It leads me to believe that there may yet be hope for the world.

However, I do have to say, that in another post, I stated that, "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck. " I guess that to be politically incorrect, but honest, many American people are tired of hearing that Islam is a religion of peace, when it obviously is not. Yes, there may be peaceful people in Islam, and hopefully, those people make a difference. However, the peaceful people are THE MINORITY. After September 11th, I had to wonder, "Why do theses people hate ME so much? What did I do? I go to school, to work, take care of my children. I breathe the same air as they do. I love my children the same way"... It's like the poem says, " Ask not for whom the bell tolls..." You are me, and I am you.. So, I studied, I asked questions. The answers I found disturbed me. You may be a peaceful person, but the majority of Muslims, living in Muslim countries, would kill me given the chance, just because I am a Western nonmuslim person.

Also, as for Dhimmism, in part 1 of my reply, I forgot to mention, that a point often forgotten, is that only non muslim people of the book can live as dhimmis in muslim countries. Oftentimes, other religious persuasions, such as buddhism, and hinduism, suffer much more.

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