Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (50 page)
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Bat Ye’or,
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(Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 56.
112
Mark Durie,
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Adel Guindy,
Hikayat al-Ihtilal
, in translation,“Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings,” (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 17.
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Philip Khuri Hitti, ed.,
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Islam and Dhimmitude
, 67.
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In contrast to modern interpretations that portray the European traveler as a prototypical “Orientalist” with an axe to grind against the “Other”—specifically non-whites and non-Christians—in fact, Polo occasionally portrayed the few Christians he encountered in a negative light (such as those of the island of Socotra) and frequently praised non-Christians, including Muslims. For example, he hails the Brahmins of India as being “most honorable,” possessing a “hatred for cheating or of taking the goods of other persons. They are likewise remarkable for the virtue of being satisfied with the possession of one wife.” He refers to one Muslim leader as governing “with justice” and another who “showed himself [to be] a very good lord, and made himself beloved by everybody.” William Marsden, trans.,
The Travels of Marco Polo
(New York: The Modern Library, 2001), 298, 317, 332.
121
Bat Ye’or,
The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude
(Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 78.
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Ye’or,
Islam and Dhimmitude
, 69.
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Jim Kouri, “IRAQ’S CHRISTIAN BLOODBATH IGNORED BY OBAMA WHITE HOUSE,” News with Views, November 4, 2010,
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news224.htm
; Associated Press, “Iraqi Chrisitan Mourn 58 Dead in Church Siege,” CBS News, November 2, 2010,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/world/main7011759.shtml
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Ye’or,
The Decline of Eastern Christianity
, 79, 108.
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Encyclopedia of Islam
, ed., Juan Eduardo Campo (New York: Facts on File, 2009), 404.
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Hosni Milad and Marcol Adel, “Egyptian Churches Reject the Repeated Cycle of Displacing Copts,” Akhbar el-Youm [The Day’s News], September 29, 2012,
http://akhbarelyom.org.eg/news73157_1.aspx
, translated by the author; Raymond Ibrahim, “Egypt’s Christians: Distraught and Displaced,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, October 5, 2012,
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-christians-distraught-and-displaced/
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