Posted by
Mustangmike on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:48:59 PM
***UPDATE***
Welcome friends of Maryaville - Here's a link to the full short story by Dan Simmons...
Read the story here.
Author Dan Simmons has penned an astonishing and riveting future history that is must reading for anyone concerned with the ill-named “War on Terror”, and that should be REQUIRED reading for those that are not yet concerned.
An excerpt:
The Time Traveler laughed again, but with more edge this time. "Yes, I know," he said. "We all know . . . up there in the future which some of you will survive to see as free people. Civil liberties. In 2006 you still fear yourselves and your own institutions first, out of old habit. A not unworthy – if fatally misguided and terminally masochistic – paranoia. I will tell you right now, and this is not a prediction but a history lesson, some of your grandchildren will live in dhimmitude."
"Zimmi . . . what?" I said.
He spelled it out. What had sounded like a 'z' was the 'dh.' I’d never heard the word and I told him so.
"Then get off your ass and Google it," said the Time Traveler, his one working eye glinting with something like fury. "Dhimmitude. You can also look up the word dhimmi, because that’s what two of your three grandchildren will be called. Dhimmis. Dhimmitude is the system of separate and subordinate laws and rules they will live under. Look up the word sharia while you’re Googling dhimmi, because that is the only law they will answer to as dhimmis, the only justice they can hope for . . . they and tens and hundreds of millions more now who are worried in your time about invisible abridgements of their 'civil liberties' by their 'oppressive' American and European democratically elected governments."
Read the rest.