Islamic law and impose
it
on non-Muslims living in Islamic territory. Consequently,
Mr. Isaac explains, the non-Muslim inhabitants become subjects of the
Islamic policy of "conversion by the sword," which seeks to
eliminate the cultural identity, race, and faith of anything not
Islamic.
He provides many examples, involving such diverse peoples as Jews,
Assyrians, Arab Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian Christians, Egyptian
Copts, and North African Berber Christians. The
book also seeks to help people appreciate other aspects of Islam not
thoroughly analyzed by the world media, aiming to raise the issue of
human rights abuses of many indigenous people living under Islamic rule.
Mr. Isaac hopes to encourage bodies such as the United Nations to
take more active measures against inhumane and undemocratic practices,
which he believes constitute a serious threat to world peace.
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About
the Author
Frederick
P. Isaac was born in 1932 in Kirkuk, Iraq.
His parents fled to Lebanon from Iraq after the massacre of
Assyrian villagers in 1933. They
returned in 1941 after his father was re-commissioned in the British Army. Mr. Isaac has worked in administrative positions with the
Iraqi News Agency, the U.S. International Cooperation Administration, and
various oil companies in Iraq and Kuwait.
Married in 1962, Mr. Isaac moved with his wife and three children
to Australia in 1971. Since
then, he has written about the plight of the Assyrians.
His work has been published in various magazines.
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Book
Description
from Cover
By
its sheer population alone, Islam is asserting itself as a major driving
force in world affairs. Western Powers may have economic and military
superiority, but as a religion, Islam is persistently pursuing its
objective of propagating the Mohammadan mission throughout the world
through its agenda of the Abode of Peace and the Abode of War. Reflecting
Mohammad's charge into battle for Allah, Islam continues to strengthen
its dominance in the Abode of Peace, and expand its activities through the
chain of networked Jihad organizations in the Abode of War.
The
domestic policy of the Abode of Peace Islamic states consistently imposes
its Islamic Shari'a rule on the aboriginal non-Moslems with a view to
total Islamisation of the native minorities and their assimilation. In the
process, these Islamic states have systematically mistreated the
non-Moslem natives by denying them their basic human rights, subjecting
them to daily discrimination and persecution. This treatment amounts to a
clear-cut policy of genocide for aboriginal groups who refuse to convert
to Islam. The Assyrians, as other subjugated aboriginal peoples, are
voicing their demand for the return of their traditional homeland. Islamic
governments remain deliberately oblivious to the pleas and demands of the
suppressed Assyrians and other natives that live under the heavy yoke of
Islam.
The
doctrine of Jihad, an integrated part of Islamic political system,
encourages attacks, incursion and acquisition of other people's
territory by aggression. The international community, together with the
United Nations Organization must shoulder the responsibility to address
these crimes against humanity and help the aggrieved aboriginals free
themselves.
This
book covers the history of Islam in the context of its tenacious objective
of spreading its message, from the Ghazzu raids of the early Islamic
campaigns to the modern Mujahideen fighters who use sophisticated
technology and the power of the petro dollar to help achieve the domestic
and global aims of Islam.
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Book
Review by Bat Ye'or
By
Bat
Ye'or
Published in FrontPage Magazine, 4 March 2003
Indigenous
Peoples Under The Rule of Islam
by Frederick P. Isaac
The
history of the Christians of the Middle East is shrouded in obscurity as
if a conspiratorial
silence is determined to rivet the last nail in a coffin that the West has
put to rest. Flourishing on this amnesia, we now see new histories taking
over the achievements of their predecessors, strutting about with
pretentious, gleaming vestments of civilizations looted through jihad
usurpation.
In
Tabari
-
the renowned 10th century Muslim scholars
-
we read that before the Islamic conquest, Iraq was inhabited by the two
Peoples of the Book. In Islamic parlance it designates Jews and
Christians. Jews have lived in Iraq - Assyria
-
which constituted a province of the Persian Empire
-
since their exile there by Nebuchadnezzar (586 BC). Christianity spread
among the inhabitants through those ancient Jewish communities. They lived
side by side in the same villages. Today there are hardly any Jews left
from the numerous diaspora of antique lineage. As for Assyrian
Christianity, it has declined considerably from the time of Arab-Islamic
invasion, and particularly in the past half century.
It
is this history of a long agony, interrupted temporarily by brilliant and
peaceful periods, that Frederick P. Isaac, an Assyrian himself, has tried
to recapture. His endeavour is not without difficulties as the frequent
destruction of monasteries and churches
-
those reliquaries of libraries and history
-
of massacres, looting and exiles of Assyrian villagers have spread a
silence of death over the centuries.
Isaac
is an heir of this ancient Assyrian history, which he recounts in a simple
and clear language. He also assesses his personal experience, which he
decided to record at his son's request. The Assyrian diaspora is now
questioned by their second and third generation anxious to discover its
roots abandoned by the hasty flight of the persecuted, and forgotten in
the tribulation of exile.
Isaac's
book exposes the religious apartheid condition of Jews and Christians
under shari'a, the traditional Islamic law. He deplores the
collusion, after World War I, of the Western colonial Powers with Muslim
authorities against the indigenous religious minorities. The latter were
betrayed and abandoned by England and France, the Mandate powers.
"Thus
-
he writes -
Assyria was dismembered and its Christian people described as aliens,
groups of different sects of unidentified nationalities.....The aim of the
key power brokers was to deny the Assyrians statehood."(p.130). Though
their country has been appropriated, he writes, the Assyrians are a nation
in their own right.
In
early 1922 the French and British colonial powers abolished the Assyrian
Resettlement Project in their northern region of Mesopotamia. The
rehabilitation program for the Assyrians was cancelled as well as its
relief work and humanitarian assistance. The Christians were scattered
without compensation, protection and shelter, they were robbed of their
homes and treated mercilessly. England parcelled out Assyria and
"sold it to the highest bidder of the four neighbouring Islamic
countries." Isaac's book is a vibrant call to remind the world of
an ancient Christian people, sacrificed to the West's policy of Islamic
appeasement. "The international community has a moral obligation to
relieve the Assyrians from this intolerable situation." The Mandate
powers had dispossessed and fragmented a small nation, a crime that must
be redressed.
Since
the two World Wars, the desire of the Assyrians has always been to live
free from Islamic rule, in their own homeland. But "the West dashed
their expectation for independence from the Islamic domineering
rulers." To comply with Muslim policy, Western nations never
considered the Assyrians a separate people, says Isaac, rather they robbed
them of their homeland and delivered them to their traditional enemies.
This policy of duplicity still continues today by the silence of Western
governments, the media, and intellectuals regarding the fact that
indigenous minorities in the Islamic lands "are subjected to
continuous oppression and humiliation. They live in total anxiety. They
are
in constant fear of losing their jobs, their properties and their
lives."
In
his conclusion, the author describes how Iraq "distorts the truth and
falsifies textbooks of history and social studies about the
Assyrians....as a part of its policy of the educational curricula that it
teaches in schools." (p.176). This policy is general in all the lands
Islamized by jihad. The same denial of Jewish and Christian history
that preceded Islam is constantly enforced. It is epitomized by the
Arab-Israeli conflict where Israel is called a colonial and usurper people
in its own land, a dismissal of the whole Biblical and post-Biblical
history on which Christianity rests. Europe's collusion with the PLO and
its replacement policy fits well the duplicity described by Isaac
concerning the Christians
-
but in the case of Israel, this duplicity which is consonant with the
Islamic refusal of the Bible, destroys Christianity itself.
Bat
Ye'or is the author of three books on Jihad and dhimmitude (www.dhimmitude.org
and www.dhimmi.org). Her latest study
is Islam
and Dhimmitude. Where Civilizations Collide (2002); see her Eurabia:
The Road to Munich National Review Online, October 9, 2002.
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