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  1. "...and their women and children were treated like things."--Armand Abel
  2. "...their men, seized by armed soldiers, were mercilessly consigned to the lot specified in the Koranic verse about the sword...
  3. "...being property of impious men and rebels, was legitimately considered their [the Muhammadan warriors'] booty...
  4. "...indeed, anything within the reach of the Moslem armies as they advanced...
  5. "...to the military operations of the summer ghazu and the winter ghazu...
  6. "...were spared the uncertainty of being exposed arbitrarily, without any guarantee...
  7. "...In this way, those of their subjects who lived within the boundaries of the territory ruled by the Caliphate...
  8. "...and to see their dominions pass from the status of dar al Harb to that of dar al Sulh...
  9. "...Many other princes agreed in this way to become tributaries – often after long struggles – ...
  10. "...according to the formula stated in the dhimma contract itself, by paying 70,000 pounds in gold annually to the Caliph of Baghdad...
  11. "...Thus the [Byzantine] Empress Irene [d. 803] "purchased peace at the price of her humiliation"...
  12. "... it was possible for him, just like for any other tributary or community, to pay the tribute for himself and for his subjects...
  13. "...If the sovereign of the [infidel] country thus attacked [by the mujahideen] desired peace...
  14. "...WAGED IN THE COURSE OF THE WINTER AND SUMMER GHAZU [razzia i.e. brutal slave-massacre-plunder raid]...
  15. "...AND SO NO RESPITE SHOULD BE GRANTED THEM [by the mujahideen], NO TRUCE: PERPETUAL WAR SHOULD BE THEIR [the unbelievers'] LOT...
  16. "...they [the unbelievers] were following a Satanic inspiration and rising up against the designs of Providence...
  17. "...by opposing the progress [the Islamo-Imperialist Manifest Destiny] of the saving religion together with their armies...
  18. "...Their [the infidel] kings were nothing but odious tyrants who...
  19. "... or else KILLED for their REBELLIOUSNESS, they were the rebel subjects of the Caliph...
  20. "..Since they were destined sooner or later to be converted at the approach of the victorious armies of the Prophet’s successor...