dhim?mi
(d?m-m?
or z?m-m?)
- An Islamic term that refers to a subjugated non-Muslim person living in a
Muslim society. Second-class status is confirmed by the legal system
and dhimmis do not share the rights of their Muslim rulers.
dhim?wit (d?m-w?t)
- A non-Muslim member of a free society that abets the stated cause of Islamic
domination with remarkable gullibility. A dhimwit is always quick
to extend sympathy to the
very enemy
that would take away his or her own freedom (or life) if given the opportunity.
November 2007 Dhimwit:
Vladimir Putin
"So long, Suckers..."
Well, this
month?s choice is so obvious that it makes us look like we were dipping into the
sauce last month when we nominated President Bush.
Vladimir
Putin is President of Russia, the country that has been at war with Islamic
terrorists since before it was fashionable.
Putin gets the nod this
month for doing his best to ensure that his country?s enemy is supplied with
nuclear weapons. Let?s just say that things have really changed with the
Russians over the years.
In the old
days, the Soviets had absolutely no qualms about meeting the lowest denominator
of any enemy and even exceeding it. Subduing a Muslim population wasn?t at all
difficult for them. In 1944, for example, the Soviets quickly put down a
Chechen ?Intifada? by deporting the entire ethnic population to the Gulag in a
matter of months.
In 1985,
not even five years after the Americans limped through their ?Iran hostage
crisis? with a famously shattered ego, the Soviets faced a similar situation
when Russian officials were abducted from their embassy in Beirut by Hezbollah.
Gorbachev gave the ?Party of Allah? 48 hours to release the hostages and then
began sending decapitated Hezbollah heads to the group?s leader until the demand
was met (and it was).
The old
Soviets knew that the only rule of war Islam consistently respects is ?Might
Makes Right.? Unfortunately for them, the old ways were not available to them
when they rolled into Afghanistan in the early eighties, since the world was
watching. The Soviets were compelled to wage the same sort asymmetrical war
that became America?s downfall in Vietnam, where one side attempts to observe an
ethic that the other is entirely free to violate.
Today, it
has gotten so bad for the Russians that Islamic militants have brazenly taken
the battle to the heart of Moscow, where they took over a theater 2002 and
killed more than 200 civilians. Two years later, 350 other innocents were left
dead in a school siege, half of whom were just children.
Islamic
terrorists have killed thousands of other Russians over the last decade in
commuter bombings, train derailments, apartment building demolitions, airplane
suicide blasts and the low-wage ethnic cleansing campaigns taking place in the
southern provinces ? all in the name of Islam.
Regretfully, the Russian response has been to pander to Islam, and no one is
doing a better job of this than President Putin. The man, who once allied
himself with Bush in the war on terror, now travels to Muslim countries, where
he trashes the US effort and openly flirts with the idea that Americans are
waging a war on Islam.
Putin has
called for the abandonment of US airbases in Kyrgyzstan, provided support to
Palestinian terrorists, and even offered the Saudis and other Arab nations
nuclear reactors (for ?peaceful purposes?). His pro-Muslim policies at home
have made him the darling of the Russian muftis, whose enthusiastic endorsement
of him in national elections is both meaningful and unnecessary.
Perhaps
the worst thing that Putin has done, however (and the primary reason for his
nomination this month), took place on a recent trip to Tehran, where he
completely undermined the international resolve against the Mullahs? nuclear
ambitions by opposing sanctions and supporting Iran?s ?right? to enrich uranium.
The
Iranians spent many years lying about the very existence of their nuclear
program. Now that it has been proven, there is no reason to believe what they
say about their intentions, particularly when the evidence is very much against
them.
In case
Putin hasn?t noticed, Iran is the world?s fourth biggest energy exporter.
They have the fifth largest oil reserves on the planet and the second largest
natural gas reserves. They need an alternative energy source like Bill Gates
needs a job.
More than
likely, Putin is attempting to create an ?unholy alliance? with the Mullahs, in
the hope that they will spare Russia from the terror-by-proxy campaign for which
Iran is famous. But like all deals with the Devil, the short-term profits never
outweigh the long-term consequences.