I gave you the Etamology i know you like that stuff BG.

I had to look it up too....Ole Torog is a smart one.

The word dhimmitude is a neologism, imported from the French language, and derived from the Arabic language word dhimmi. The term has at least two distinct but related meanings describing a certain position of a non-Muslim in relation to the Islamic world — notably it is a characterization of non-Muslims as submitting to Muslim authority or intimidation. Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, states that the story of "dhimmitude", of subservience and persecution and ill treatment is one of the two well-established myths available in the literature about the position of Jews in the Islamic world and that, like many myths, it contains significant elements of truth. [1]

Today the term dhimmitude is often used to allude to the conduct of non-muslims who submit to the terms of the dhimmi by ceding their own or their subject's individual rights such as free speech to placate Islamic pressure groups.

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1 Etymology
2 Associations and usage
3 References
4 See also



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Etymology
Dhimmi (also zimmi, Arabic ذمي, often translated as "protected") is the legal status of a free non-Muslim subject of a state governed in accordance with sharia — Islamic law. The word dhimmi is an adjective (but used like a noun in English). It is derived from the noun dhimma, which means "pact of liability", and denotes the legal relationship between non-Muslim subjects and the Islamic state. "Dhimmitude" adds the productive suffix "-tude" to the adjective dhimmi, thus creating a new noun with a meaning (arguably) distinct from dhimma.

The term entered English-language use after the 1996 publication of the book "The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam. From Jihad to Dhimmitude. Seventh-Twentieth Century"[2] and the 2003 followup "Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide"[3] by Bat Ye'or. She is widely thought to have invented the word[4], though some [5] think she borrowed it from the assassinated Lebanese Maronite leader Bashir Gemayel.