Dhimmitude Watch

Dhimmitude is the Islamic term for the third-class status of non-Muslims living in Islamic countries. Non-Muslims are severely restricted in their civil rights, including denial of freedom of worship and prohibition of certain civil activities. Its terms and condition have varied over time and place, but one thing it always does is make non-Muslims subservient to sharia law and Muslim rule without recourse. See here.

Comes now this report of self-dhimmitude in Great Britain: "Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan because neighbour claimed 'smell of frying bacon offends Muslims."

A hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan - because the smell of her frying bacon 'offends' Muslims.

Planning bosses acted against Beverley Akciecek, 49, after being told her next-door neighbour's Muslim friends had felt 'physically sick' due to the 'foul odour'.

Councillors at Stockport Council in Greater Manchester say the smell from the fan is 'unacceptable on the grounds of residential amenity'.

As I wrote here, the West is being attacked not merely by violent jihadis, but by practitioners of "stealth jihad," or creeping sharia in Europe and North America. Muslims in the West, especially the so-called "moderates," are actively working to integrate sharia law into Western societies and legal systems.

The method: Acceptance-Endorsement-Enforcement.

Nonviolent jihadists use our political institutions against us. This is the method that the Muslim Brotherhood, ideological wellspring of Islamism, calls dawa, or “summons” to the West to become Muslim. I assess their method as threefold: Acceptance-Endorsement-Enforcement.

First, Muslims in the West plead for acceptance of Muslim practices in America, especially the building of mosques. Mosques are the primary means of radicalizing native-land converts. And if building mosques gains public controversy, the door opens for them to claim oppression and plead for religious tolerance.

Second, greater jihadists demand endorsement of Muslim claims of exceptionalism, such as Islam, the Quran or Muhammad being off limits to public debate or criticism. Here also they have learned how to play the victim card by claiming to be offended by the insensitive, intolerant critics.

Finally, they demand enforcement by Western governments of Muslim privileges and special rights. This process is so far along in Europe that I think my thesis hardly needs defending.

As this unjustifiable ruling in England shows. And here's the kicker - the complainant who got the order to shut down the fan is not even Muslim!

Mr Webb-Lee objected to the aplication - complaining that his Muslim friends refused to visit him becase they 'can't stand the smell of bacon'.

Makes me wonder who is more gutless, the town councillors who gave the order or Mr. Webb-Lee for his groveling self-dhimmitudiness.