THE POSITION OF NON-MUSLIMS IN AN ISLAMIC STATE

Abstract

Weak and vulnerable, almost by definition1, minorities have all too often been oppressed and presented in many societies throughout the ages. Prominent examples in pre-modem European history include the Jews and the Muslims-especially under the Inquisition in Spain2 and, in more recent times, the Bosnians and Kosovars in the Balkans, the Hutus in Rwanda Burundi and the Chechins in the Russian Republic.