In Islam, the dhimmi status, that of the protected person, is not a permanent arrangement. It is a temporary intermediate condition born of necessity and constraint, a kind of intermittent Holocaust, meant to grind down non-Muslim existence until it is wiped out completely. Written by Ofer Binshtok No non-Muslim is innocent. By the simple fact that they do not believe, that they are not Muslims, they are guilty of the gravest crime that exists. Quran 8:39 commands fighting the non-Muslims until the world contains only those who live as Muslims, under Islamic law. Quran 9:5 orders the killing of the mushrikun (all non-Muslims; Jews and Christians are also mushrikun according to Quran 9:30 and 9:31). Only the one who converts to Islam is protected. Quran 9:29 commands fighting those who do not believe. The cause for war is simply that a person does not accept Muhammad as the messenger of Allah. This verse is what turns the non-Muslim into a dhimmi, a subhuman, an instrument that sustains the Muslims by paying jizya, a ransom for his life. (Compensation that Allah promised the Muslims for lost income in Quran 9:28) Bukhari 25 states that Muhammad was commanded to fight non-Muslims until they convert to Islam. Those who do not convert are fought without limit of time or place until they are killed or convert. According to Bukhari, Quran 5:33 establishes that the mere fact a person is not a Muslim places him in a state of active war against the Muslims, and his sentence is death by especially cruel means: crucifixion, amputation of limbs. The jizya and the dhimmi status are only an intermediate stage until extinction: temporary protection in exchange for payment while remaining a humiliated subhuman. It is a population that shrinks and withers in suffering over time until it is completely eradicated. This is what actually occurred in the Islamic conquests: The Arabian Peninsula was almost entirely cleansed of non-Muslims. A Christian majority in the Middle East and North Africa was reduced to a tiny minority. The Zoroastrian religion in Persia was nearly wiped out. Anatolia, once a non-Muslim Byzantine Christian majority, became 99.5 percent Muslim (what is now called Turkey). Egypt, North Africa, the Sahel, the Nile Valley and other parts of Africa went from 90 to 100 percent Christian and followers of natural religions to 99 percent Muslim in North Africa, and roughly 85 percent Muslim across the rest of the region. The minorities that remain in these areas after centuries of persecution, restrictions and pressure continue to be persecuted until they are finally eradicated. They have no permanent status. The process does not stop as long as any non-Muslim presence remains.

The Patriarch of the Chaldean Church visits a seminary in Iraq. The Assyro-Chaldeans, descending from The Church of The East, are amongst the most forgotten Christian nations in the world. Decimated by the Iraq War & ISIS, they face an ongoing emigration crisis & need our help if they are going to persist in their homeland. On the current trajectory, there won't be any in Iraq on a 20-30 year timeline, and with them gone, the odds of the survival of Aramaic drop to near-zero. Languages do not survive outside of ancestral land--outside of blood & soil. I pray to see the day that Christendom is united in its desire to support its Eastern flock, not just with prayer but with policy.