| − | '''Dhimmitude''' is the Islamic concept that non-Muslims who refuse to convert be “protected” and “tolerated” as third-class citizens. That is, they are allowed to live in the Islamic land as long as they pay the “jizya”, a repressive tax, and observe a list of restrictions on their freedom, which in effect makes them third-class citizens. D’himmitude is the Islamic alternative to Jihad and death or conversion to Islam. People who are forced to live thus in order to avoid execution are called dhimmis. According to Shariah: The Threat to America, The Report of Team B, "to live as a dhimmi is to have an inferior legal status under shariah, a codified condition as old as the first Islamic conquests of non-Islamic peoples. The Muslim-to-dhimmi relationship is, at best, a master-servant relationship..."<ref>Shariah: The Threat to America, Report of Team B, The Center for Security Policy, Washington, D.C. 2010, p. 235</ref> | + | '''Dhimmitude''' is the Islamic concept that non-Muslims who refuse to convert be “protected” and “tolerated” as third-class citizens. That is, they are allowed to live in the Islamic land as long as they pay the “jizya”, a repressive tax, and observe a list of restrictions on their freedom, which in effect makes them third-class citizens. D’himmitude is the Islamic alternative to Jihad and death or conversion to [[Islam]]. People who are forced to live thus in order to avoid execution are called dhimmis. According to Shariah: The Threat to America, The Report of Team B, "to live as a dhimmi is to have an inferior legal status under shariah, a codified condition as old as the first Islamic conquests of non-Islamic peoples. The Muslim-to-dhimmi relationship is, at best, a master-servant relationship..."<ref>Shariah: The Threat to America, Report of Team B, The Center for Security Policy, Washington, D.C. 2010, p. 235</ref> |