dhimmitude

Bat Yeor wrote a book on the decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, a book about dhimmitude. What a heartbreaking book, and what a look at history I had no idea about whatsoever. Over a thousand years ago the great civilizations that eventually became modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Egypt were subjugated under invaders. After hundreds of years of massacre, slavery and severe oppression, some of the orginal inhabitants of these areas no longer exist. Dhimmitude ended under great pressure from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning in Turkey. Bat Yeor is a historian who has done pain-staking research in this field.