Land of Dhimmitude (una ressenya)

Ressenya del llibre



per Bruce Thornton: The Civilization of Dhimmitude.

(Versió francesa: Civilisation de la Dhimmitude.)

Ye’or’s thesis in Eurabia is that in the last thirty years jihad has reappeared as “a powerful factor in European affairs,” one that has been virtually ignored in contemporary analyses. From the high tide of Muslim ascendancy on September 11, 1683 before the walls of Vienna, the subsequent centuries saw the contraction of Muslim power and the growing interference of Europe in the affairs of the Middle East, a retreat confirmed by the deep humiliation of the Ottoman Empire’s dismemberment after World War I. And any hopes that Islam could regain its lost glory militarily were dashed when a tiny Israel three times defeated Arab armies. These further defeats confirmed that jihad could not be pursued with military force and that other means would have to be pursued. King Hassan II of Morocco said as much at the meeting of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in 1980: “The significance of Jihad, in Islam,” the summary of his remarks states, “did not lie in religious wars or crusades. Rather, it was strategic political and military action, and psychological warfare, which, if employed by the Islamic Umma [the worldwide Islamic community], would ensure victory over the enemy.”