Asymmetry in religious-protection demands follows from the infidel-rule doctrine

Evidence

This may help us to understand the current troubles in such diverse places as Ethiopian Eritrea, Indian Kashmir, Chinese Sinkiang, and Yugoslav Kosovo, in all of which Muslim populations are ruled by non-Muslim governments. It may also explain why spokesmen for the new Muslim minorities in Western Europe demand for Islam a degree of legal protection which those countries no longer give to Chris­ tianity and have never given to Judaism. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1570