*“Dhimmitude,” which will be discussed at length, is the term historian Bat Ye’or has introduced to the lexicon to describe a mode of behavior or state of mind fostered by sharia-sanctioned religious inferiority.

 

*Rahman’s ordeal wasn’t over on his arrival in Italy. In October 2006, when Italian photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was kidnapped in Afghanistan, kidnappers offered to free Torsello in exchange for Abdul Rahman. Italy made no such deal. Three weeks later, Torsello (a Muslim convert, by the way) was released.