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What happens when someone dissents from the leftist establishment narrative in a way that is so compelling and convincing that the continued wide acceptance of that narrative is imperiled? What happens is that the leftist media establishment deploys its strongest rhetorical weapons against the offender, hoping to destroy or at least cripple the dissident before he or she is able to amass a significant following, or to dishearten and disperse that following if it already exists. This is why the April 2026 issue of Tablet magazine contains a massive article, over 6,000 words long, damning with faint praise the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or.
Former New York Times writer Judith Miller, who for decades has been a reliable conduit for the establishment line, pulls out all the stops to ensure that her readers will come away with the idea that Bat Ye’or, for all her admirable qualities, is a bit of a nutter. It is a shabby way to treat one of the great thinkers of our age, and demonstrates how deeply threatened the academic left is in the face of the truths Bat Ye’or has uncovered.
Bat Ye’or is a 92-year-old independent scholar, born in Egypt. Her books, including The Dhimmi, The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, and Islam and Dhimmitude, shed unprecedented light upon a previously neglected area of the study of Islam: dhimmitude, Islamic law’s institutionalized system of discrimination and persecution of unbelievers, primarily Jews and Christians.
Then in her equally groundbreaking 2005 book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye’or showed how and why Europe embarked upon the path that is now leading, as more and more people realize daily, to the destruction of its own civilization: the admittance of massive numbers of Muslim migrants without any expectation that they would ever assimilate and adopt European Judeo-Christian values and mores.
If events have vindicated anyone who has written anything over the last quarter-century, they have vindicated Bat Ye’or. Islamic apologists in the West have, over the last few years, sharply curtailed their protestations of Islam’s tolerance and now are increasingly open about their supremacist designs and contempt for their hosts. Eurabia, for years dismissed as a conspiracy theory, is now obvious and unavoidable on the streets of London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, and elsewhere.
Bat Ye’or should consequently be celebrated as the visionary she is, and as someone who stood her ground courageously against the ridicule and contempt of the academic establishment, which assured us that Islam was peaceful and tolerant and that Europe would never be in any danger from the Muslim migrants it took in. Instead, Judith Miller gives us more of that contempt.
Miller is at least polite about it, and professes to admire Bat Ye’or’s intellectual integrity. Miller semaphores repeatedly throughout her windy piece, however, that right-thinking leftist intellectuals should not dare to take Bat Ye’or seriously, or to notice that she has been proven correct about everything.
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Tony says
Islam stealthily includes and promotes a TOTALITARIAN LEGAL SYSTEM against all Non-Muslims to subjugate all Execute, Legislative, and Judicial Branches of Governments(Local, State, and Federal) including all Bureaucracy of Governments, all Police(Military, Police), all Educational Systems, etc., under Sharia by force if necessary as taught by Allah and as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51,101; 5:48, etc.). A multi-faceted approach is required to destroy or to weaken Islam as a religion under the USA Constitution and under the IRS Code to deny special tax treatment. Islam funds, teaches, and promotes discrimination, violence, and terrorism in its Qur’an which is against the USA Constitution(Qur’an 9:5, 19, 111; 49:15; 98:6-7, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah rewards Muslims with Paradise when they kill and are killed in Jihad, war against Non-Muslims with MUSLIM MONEY and with MUSLIM LIVES to make Islam supreme. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims to establish Islamic Law, Sharia, so that Islam reigns supreme. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day[Non-Muslims]. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid[in Islamic Law], nor believe in the religion of the truth[Islam] among those who have given the book[Jews and Christians] until they pay the jizyah[Extortion Payment] out of hand and they are subdued[disgraced].”
Magooey says
Dhimmitude is apartheid.
WPM says
The NYT is a Dhimmitude newspaper it is part and parcel of the red green alliance . It runs opinion pieces that are clearly anti western cultural and many of their “news” stories seem more like propaganda pieces then “unbiases” balance news .A newspaper that saw little wrong with Stalin killing off millions of his own people in the 1920s-to 1930s .. They also saw little wrong with Hitler in the early 1930 seeing he made the trains run on time and was boosting the economy in Germany ,he clearly was not going to round up millions to liquidate in camps that was all just talk according to the times in 1933. Much like the Imams preaching in western Europe ,North America on Friday night about the evils of the Jews and Christians. Or the bragging of Moslems taking over Time Square for “praying” shutting down the street and saying they will take over NYC now that they have a Moslem mayor. You are a racist for questioning threats of violence against you in public sermons by so called “holy man of God” that they call for every Friday night in their tax exempt Mosque .Calls for subverting and changing the equality of western law for all people in the name of their violent political cult .Communism ,Fascism ,and Islamic law all have alot in common for hating Jews, Christians or any separate belief system outside of their cults .They cannot be questions of their beliefs or their laws .You must submit unquestioning to them or face death that is the common law of these political cults .
Peter Williamson says
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country” – Matthew 13:57, Mark 6:4
Huh?!? says
A brilliant article about a brilliant woman. The U.S. keeps going around this same mountain. The U.S. must defend itself against Islam. Without lies Islam dies.