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[quote=Anonymous]Here's more, too lazy to post:

http://www.dhspriory.org/kenny/views/views21.htm

The following chapter of at-Turtûshî represents the severest and most fanatical of Muslim position regarding Christians.— Although no Muslim country of our time recognizes the dhimma system as part of its laws or constitutions; theoretically all citizens are equal, the 1935 editor of at-Turtûshî expressed this wish in a footnote to this chapter.[2]

The Covenant of `Umar

`Abdarrahmân b. Ghunm said: We wrote to `Umar b. al-Khattâb at the time when he made a settlement with the Christian people of Syria:

In the name of God the merciful and kind. This is a letter from the Christians of such and such a city to the Commander of the Faithful. When you took holy possession of us, we asked you for a guarantee of safety (amân) for ourselves, our children, our property, and the people of our community (milla). We agreed to the following conditions:

We will not build in our cities or in their neighbourhood any new monastery, church, monk's cell, or hermitage.
    We will not restore such buildings which fall into ruin, neither by night nor by day, especially when they are surrounded by Muslim compounds.
    We will keep our doors open to people passing by and to travellers; moreover, we will give food and lodging for three days to Muslims who stop at our places.
    We will not harbor a spy in our churches or houses.
    We will not hide from the Muslims any plot to hurt them.
    We will not teach our children the Qur'ân.
    We will not display our religion, or invite anyone to join it.
    We will not prevent any of our relatives from joining Islam if he wishes.
    We will respect Muslims, and give them our seats if they wish to sit down.
    We will not in any way imitate their way of dressing, such as wearing a cap (qalaswa = Hausa hula), a turban, or sandals, or parting the hair.
    We will not speak as they do, or use their surnames [like "Abû-Tâlib"].
    We will not use saddles in riding.
    We will not wear swords, or possess or carry any arms.
    We will not use Arabic letters on our signet rings.
    We will not sell alcoholic drinks.
    We will clip our hair from covering our foreheads.
    We will keep to the same dress wherever we are, and will wear a belt.
    We will not display our crosses or books in any way in the roadways or markets of the Muslims.
    We will play the nâqûs [a wooden percussion instrument] only very lightly in our churches.
    We will in no way read the lessons loudly in our churches when Muslims are about.
    We will not have processions on Palm Sunday and Easter.
    We will not pray loudly while bringing our dead to the grave.
    We will not at all display processional lights in the roadways or markets of the Muslims.
    We will not bury our dead near the Muslims.
    We will not take possession of any slave who belongs to a Muslim through the division of war booty.
    We will not have places where we can look down into Muslim houses...

"We bind ourselves and our community to these stipulations. In return for them we receive a guarantee of safety. If we should contravene any of the stipulations which we accepted from you and made ourselves responsible for, we shall no longer enjoy this dhimma pact, and we shall be liable to be treated as rebels and seditious people."

`Umar wrote back to `Abdarrahmân b. Ghunm, saying, "Ratify what they requested, but add the following two stipulations which I impose on them in addition to what they took upon themselves:
    They may not buy anyone captured by the Muslims.
    If any of then deliberately strikes a Muslim he has broken the pact."

How the tolerated classes are to ride

Nâfi` related from Sâlim, a client of `Umar b. al-Khattâb, that `Umar wrote to the Christians of Syria, saying that they should stop using stirrups, but should ride sitting sideways between the pack-bags (= mangala). They should also dress differently from the Muslims, so that they may be recognized.

It is also related that the Banû-Taghlib [an Arab tribe] visited `Umar b. `Abdal`azîz and said, "O Commander of the Faithful, we are Arabs; tell us what you require." `Umar asked: "Are you Christians?" They answered, "We are Christians." He told them, "Call for a barber," and they did so. He had the barber clip short the hair hanging over their forehead, and cut off a strip of their robes to make a belt for them to wear, and commanded them not to ride sitting an saddles, but only on packbags, sitting sideways. [/quote]

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