PELONI: The West is forming the shackles of its own internment as the future Dhimmis of a fate they are themselves making inevitable with their own complicity. Equivocation in the face of evil is how useful idiots become useful to the evil they deplore.
by Bat Ye’or • October 7, 2026 at 5:00 am
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- Funding from Qatar and other oil-producing states has transplanted the traditional belligerence against Judeo-Christianity from national frontiers into the very heart of these countries. Added to this innovation is that of indiscriminate terrorism, pioneered by the Palestine Liberation Organization as early as the 1960s.
- The concept of dar al-harb (the “abode of war”) — countries still to be conquered for Islam and regarded as the realm of absolute evil in which the injustice of infidel laws prevails — remains current and effective in Islamic theology. It is this concept that today mobilizes some Muslim immigrants in the West to reject integration into societies that do not practice sharia. In other words, the clash of civilizations persists, but now within Western civilizations themselves, which have lost their homogeneity through the demographic changes and host large numbers of Muslim immigrants imposing their own laws.
- The present situation recalls the traditional waves of jihadist conquest of territories inhabited by Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims. Greek, Serbian, and Slavic historians bitterly chronicled, over the course of centuries, the internal traitors — military figures, displaced aristocrats, princes of the Church — who made pacts with Muslim conquerors and handed citadels and cities over to them.
- The radical activism today of the Muslim diaspora within Western societies and its refusal to integrate… stem from directives issued by the OIC [a sort of global caliphate representing 56 Muslim countries].
- In the West, jihad operates on several levels: indiscriminate terrorism, censorship of “blasphemy,” changes in customs and laws, the ballot box, the adoption of Western concepts in order to turn them against Europeans, such as cancel culture (to shut out Western evil), and calls for “resistance” (against Christian laws, by holding to jihadist principles of conquest and domination) and “liberation” (meaning the replacement of infidel law by sharia).
- We also see the systematic use of the reversal of accusations, in which offenders become victims; the destruction of the infidels’ knowledge such as the rejection of Western culture, history and modern history, and their replacement by linguistic fabrications, such as white racism, Western colonialism and “Islamophobia.”
- Unfortunately, there is a lot to be “phobic” about: paedophilia, death for alleged blasphemy, death for apostasy, permitted rape of infidels, brutality to women and homosexuals, stoning to death for adultery (which includes having been raped), and so on. The principles of Islamic law, as derived from the Quran and sharia, are fundamentally opposed to Western secular laws: they do not recognize individual rights (rather than group rights), gender equality or equality between Muslims and non-Muslims. They do not accept the testimony of non-Muslims and their rights to sovereignty, property or territorial independence. The concept of justice is defined only according to Islamic parameters of justice. Hence, the same words — rights, liberation, resistance, justice, God — can be used without Westerners realizing that their meanings and implications are often quite contradictory to those assumed in the West.
- This disparity, which becomes a confrontation, is particularly evident in United Nations forums, where 56 Islamic countries vote as a bloc against Israel according to a jihadist view of justice based on the concepts of harbi (non-Muslims in a state of war with Islam) and jahiliya (the “age of ignorance,” referring to miscreant non-Muslim societies, including Jews and Christians). The concept is based on the supposed chaos of evil and barbarity covering the world before the advent of Islam in 622 CE).
- The social and peaceful improvements against radicalism highlighted by Riboua, such as the Abraham Accords, in the foreign policies of Muslim states are encouraging, provided that they are not limited to acquiring the levers of Western power, as they increasingly seem to be.
- The name “Palestine,” in fact, belongs to Jewish history. It is unpronounceable in Arabic and absent from the canonical texts of Islam. Muslims received it as a gift, an act of humble allegiance from Christians who fashioned it into a weapon against Israel. Their Muslim allies then adapted it to their Islamic version of the Bible and the Gospel — a version in which, in the Quran, all Jewish figures are Islamized, including Jesus, who becomes Isa, a Muslim prophet whose mission is to abolish all infidel religions, above all Christianity.
- This supposed Quranic Palestine, whose name, temporal and geographical location appear nowhere in the Quran, was claimed as Muslim ?without Jews or Christians ?because in the Quran, Islam preceded Judaism and Christianity, both of which, according to doctrine, appeared only after Islam. In Islam, it is this Palestine that must be restored. It is in this sense that Jews and Christians, are colonists, because the entirety of Biblical history, including the Gospels, is erased. It is this meaning that Christians embrace when they pride themselves on wearing the keffiyeh, the emblem of a Palestine that is a totally political artefact created to eliminate the Christian and Jewish faiths.
- The crowds of Westerners who, encouraged by some Christian clergy, jeer at Israel and worship “Palestine,” are unaware that they are rejecting the foundations of their own civilization. These crowds are campaigning for the Islamization of their countries and their own deaths, or else conversion or submission to Islam as inferior beings called dhimmis.
- America’s main challenge will not come from external jihad but from diaspora Muslims in the United States and Europe, “driven by postcolonial resentment and a politics of permanent resistance…”
- This, too, is jihad: resentment at having been humiliated by the despised infidel, at having to obey him, while Islam is supposed to command and not be commanded, and while Islam rejects the testimony of the dhimmi.
- Indeed, the strict prohibition against Muslims adopting the customs and practices of Jews and Christians or forming friendships with them is as old as the Quran. It lays down these principles and, since its emergence in the eighth century, is the source of endless prohibitions in Islamic jurisprudence.
- Ultimately, Muslim states can sleep soundly: the conquest of the West is well under way…. Thanks to its many clueless helpers in the West, Jihad is doing just fine.
Zineb Riboua, a Moroccan-American researcher, developed an original analysis in her recent essay for City Journal, “The West Faces Two Islams.” She distinguishes between an Islam in the West, infused with Third Worldism and centered on Israeli-Palestinian issues, as opposed to an Islam in the Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Many in those regions have, by and large, modernized, are enthusiastic about technology, and seek a new relationship with their former colonizers from the West.
The fault line, therefore, is said to have shifted onto Western soil, where the West now faces a new homegrown Islam that is steeped in colonial resentment and forged in the Palestinian cause.
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