Free Copts describes the true plight of the Dhimmi in this article:

When Islam spread in the Middle East during the seventh century, the attitude to the People of the Book, as Jews and Christians are called, does not entail any obligation on the part of the Muslim either to convert or to exterminate them. It is at that time that Islam’s reputation as a religion of toleration arises.

The People of the Book are considered as dhimmi (from Aramaic dmm, i.e.the insulted ones), that is, as persons in possession of a protective treaty, dhimma, in which they renounce certain rights and in return enjoy the practice of their religion and their customs.

Much has been made of the so called Covenant of ‘Umar as a document of an approximate description of the actual state of affairs around 800 A.D. It demonstrates beyond doubt the isolation of non-Muslims within their own religious groups. Their personal safety and their personal property are guaranteed them at the price of permanent inequality. The Covenant of ‘Umar is in the form of a letter presented by the Christian community to the second Caliph (‘Umar bin al-khattab, the second successor to the Prophet Muhammad). It reads the following: “when you (i.e. ‘Umar) came to us we asked of you safety for our lives, our families, our property, and the people of our religion on the conditions: to pay tribute out of hand and be humiliated; not to hinder any Muslim from stopping in our churches by night or day, to entertain him there three days and give him food there and open to him their doors; to beat the naqus (the wooden board which serves as ‘bell’ amongst the Easter Christians) only gently in them and not to raise our voices in them in chanting;….not to build a church, convent, hermitage, or cell, nor repair those that are dilapidated; nor assemble in any that is in a Muslim quarter, nor in their presence; not to display idolatry, nor invite to it, nor show a cross on our churches, nor in any of the roads or markets of the Muslims; not to learn the Koran nor teach it to our children; not to prevent any of our relatives from turning Muslim if he wish it;….not to resemble the Muslims in dress, appearance, saddles….; to honor and respect them, to stand up for them when we meet together;….not to make our houses higher (than theirs); not to tip weapons or swords, nor wear them in a town or on a journey in Muslim lands;….not to strike a Muslim; not to keep slaves who have been the property of Muslims. We impose these terms on ourselves and on our co-religionists; he who rejects them has no protection.” (See A.S. Tritton, The Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects, London, 1930).

Sounds live a great life. How does this attitude toward Christians and Jews translate in real life?

From Asia News:

Two Christian girls, little more than children, were kidnapped from their families recently, forcibly converted to Islam and then married off to strangers. Both of the kidnaps took place in Faisalabad, the third largest city in Pakistan, and both were completely ignored by the police. The phenomenon is not a new one however, underlined numerous human rights activist, but it is dangerously on the increase.

On August 5 Muhammad Adnan, a Muslim from Zulfiqar colony Faisalabad and his sister kidnapped Zunaira, an eleven years old Christian girl from her home in Warispura. After the kidnap, they forced her to convert to Islam and marry her kidnapper Muhammad.

The small girl’s mother, Abida, told AsiaNews: “When I was roaming in streets in search of my daughter two Muslim men of the area told me that they saw Adnan and his sister taking my daughter”. Abida decided to go to the kidnapper’s house, from which however she is thrown out. Returning home, she was contacted by two men who revealed the kidnappers identity and offer to act as negotiators for her daughters release in exchange for money.

Despite being desperately poor, Abida gives them 12 thousand Rupees (200 Euro): “I didn’t’t want to inform the police, because my daughter was engaged and I didn’t want my relatives to know. Unfortunately I found out too late that those men who said they would help me only want money: I have sold all I have, but it wasn’t enough and now I am alone”. Abida then turned to the police, but they refused help. The fact that the marriage is invalid given the age of the bride, “is not a matter for the police” said the officers.

In the second case Shumaila Tabussum, (16), was kidnapped from her home on August 16 by a Muslim man Mazher and some other unknown people. They told Shumaila that her father had been seriously injured in an accident and offered to accompany her to the hospital where he had been taken. The girl, without waiting for her mother, got into Mazher’s car: on the way she met two uncles at shouted the news of her father’s accident to them. These made their way to the hospital but found no-one.

Salamat Masih, 37, Shumaila’s father, immediately reported the abduction to the police. He told AsiaNews that he is “very worried because cases such as these are on the increase: Christian girls abducted, forcibly converted and subjected to becoming the wives of complete strangers”.

Christians aren’t allowed, under Islamic tradition, to fight back against “humiliation”, and while American apologists for Islam attempt to portray a tolerant loving Islam the truth is that to Islamists kidnapping and raping young girls, then telling the family that the girls “converted”, is exactly what kind of humiliation is allowed. I’ve written about sex attacks in Egypt aimed at humiliating young girls and shaming them into becoming Muslims in another post and as you read this Muslims are occupying and desecrating a Sikh temple.

But the left in this country, and internationally, seems intent on holding to the covenant of Umar, trading their own freedoms for theoretical safety and aiding the Islamists against the rest of us unbelievers. Whether it’s Gwen Stefani capitulating to Islamist demands or left wing groups supporting an Islamist run madrassa in NYC, the left has continued to “stand up for Muslims” in return for the the illusion of safety the Jihadists offer.

The left are allied with the Islamists in their hatred of the west, and desire to destroy our civilization. Some leftists no doubt believe that a revolution involving Jihadists and radical leftists would lead to the two groups coexisting as equal overlords enslaving the rest of the world, but that is clearly not the case as Robert Spencer explains aptly.

For the non-Muslim, the peace of Islam is slavery, rape and death. The Islam of today’s radicals is not the benign Sufism of Rumi as so many on the left suppose, nor is it the heroic answer to western imperialism. Islamists are imperialists in the truest sense of the word, seeking to establish a feudal kingdom on earth and a culture of tribal warfare, raiding and genocide. The Islamic London of Michael Hodges would look less like paradise and more like Darfur, and anyone who doesn’t see that is deluding themselves. The only peace that Islam offers is to those who submit entirely to the barbaric savages that are its modern leaders.