Definition of "dhimmis" [dhimmis]

• Plural form of dhimmi. (noun)

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• ""I don't expect 'colonizing' Zionists to live in Palestine as 'dhimmis' - a vastly overworked term of persecution, by the way.""
• "These peoples and populations were known as dhimmis, and if such a status was not humiliating enough, a special tax or tribute, called the jizya, was imposed upon them and upon all dhimmis."
• "The reason is the institutionalized oppression inherent in Islamic law, under which religious minorities are stripped of their legal, religious and social freedoms, and forced to live as second-class citizens or "dhimmis," in a precarious and terrifyingly vulnerable state of existence."