Dhimmitude

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Appeasement towards Islamic demands. derogatory, uncountable

    "The most likely scenario for Europe isn't dhimmitude; it's a long period of tension, punctuated by spasms of violence, that makes the Continent a more unpleasant place without fundamentally transforming it."

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"The most likely scenario for Europe isn't dhimmitude; it's a long period of tension, punctuated by spasms of violence, that makes the Continent a more unpleasant place without fundamentally transforming it."

Etymology

c. 1985, from French (c. 1982), from dhimmi + -tude.

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