Contemporary Islamic terrorism has forged an inchoate strategic alliance between the Israeli and Indian governments, while heightening the awareness of a common threat -- the institution of jihad -- among the civilian populations of these nations.  Now Indian BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who is currently on a six-day goodwill visit to Israel, along with a BJP delegation, has underscored the urgent need for India and Israel to enhance their cooperative anti-terror activities.Rarely understood, let alone acknowledged, however, is the history of brutal jihad conquest, Muslim colonization, and the imposition of dhimmitude shared by the Jews of historical Palestine, and the Hindus of the Indian subcontinent. Moreover, both peoples and nations also have in common, a subsequent, albeit much briefer British colonial legacy, which despite its own abuses, abrogated the system of dhimmitude (permanently for Israel and India, if not, sadly, for their contemporary Muslim neighboring states),...(Read Full Post)