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Eurabia

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Eurabia, a portmanteau of "Europe" and "Arabia," is a political neologism referring to Europe becoming subsumed by the Arab World, because of European leaders' perceived capitulation to Islamic influences[1] and/or continued immigration and highbirth rates of Muslims in Europe.

The term was publicized by the writer Bat Ye'or,[2] especially in her 2005 book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, referring to joint Euro-Arab domestic and foreign policies which she characterizes as anti-American and anti-Zionist.[3]

The term is generally used in combination with "dhimmitude," another neologismintroduced by Ye'or, denoting an attitude of concession, surrender and appeasementtowards Islam.

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[edit]Etymology

Further information: Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

Eurabia was originally the title of a newsletter published by the Comité européen de coordination des associations d'amitié avec le monde Arabe.[4] According to Bat Ye'or, it was published collaboratively with France-Pays Arabes (journal of the Association de solidarité franco-arabe or ASFA), Middle East International (London), and the Groupe d'Etudes sur le Moyen-Orient (Geneva).[5] There is no group of this name at the University of Geneva, but there is a Groupe de recherche et d'études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen Orient (GREMMO) at the University of Lyon,[6] and one of its members is the Institut universitaire d'études du développement (IUED) at the University of Geneva.[7]

During the 1973 oil crisis, the European Economic Community (predecessor of the European Union), had entered into the Euro-Arab Dialogue(fr) (EAD) with the Arab League.[8] Bat Ye'or later used the journal title Eurabia (fr) to describe the associated political developments.

Bat Ye'or describes Eurabia as a result of the French-led European policy originally intended to increase European power against the United States by aligning its interests with those of the Arab countries, and regards it as a primary cause of European hostility to Israel. She describes it as follows:

A machinery that has made Europe the new continent of dhimmitude was put into motion more than 30 years ago at the instigation of France. A wide-ranging policy was then first sketched out, a symbiosis of Europe with the Muslim Arab countries, that would endow Europe - and especially France, the project's prime mover - with a weight and a prestige to rival that of the United States. This policy was undertaken quite discreetly, outside of official treaties, under the innocent-sounding name of the Euro-Arab Dialogue [...] This strategy, the goal of which was the creation of a pan-Mediterranean Euro-Arab entity, permitting the free circulation both of men and of goods, also determined the immigration policy with regard to Arabs in the European Community (EC). And, for the past 30 years, it also established the relevant cultural policies in the schools and universities of the EC [...] The Arabs set the conditions for this association:

  1. a European policy that would be independent from, and opposed to that of the United States
  2. the recognition by Europe of a "Palestinian people", and the creation of a "Palestinian state"
  3. European support for the PLO
  4. the designation of Arafat as the sole and exclusive representative of that "Palestinian people"
  5. the delegitimizing of the State of Israel, both historically and politically, its shrinking into non viable borders, and the Arabization ofJerusalem.
From this sprang the hidden European war against Israel, through economic boycotts, and in some cases academic boycotts as well, through deliberate vilification, and the spreading of both anti-Zionism and antisemitism.[9]

Europe's economic greed was instrumentalized by Arab League policy in a long-term political strategy targeting Israel, Europe, and America [...] Through the labyrinth of the EAD system, a policy of Israel's delegitimization was planned at both the EC's national and international levels [...] Strategically, the Euro-Arab Cooperation was a political instrument for anti-Americanism in Europe, whose aim was to separate and weaken the two continents by an incitement to hostility and the permanent denigration of American policy in the Middle East.[10]

The truth is that for 30 years the Europeans were with the terrorists. They can't fight the Arabs; they have allowed the Arabs to dictate their policy since 1974.[11]

[edit]Current usage

Current use of the term has gained supporters, and sometimes differs from that of Bat Ye'or, with more attention to Muslim immigration and demographic, and to the difficulties of assimilating Europe's Islamic populations. Niall Ferguson wrote in The New York Times that the idea of Eurabia has

gained credibility since 9/11. The 3/11 bombings in Madrid confirm that terrorists sympathetic to Osama bin Laden continue to operate with comparative freedom in European cities. Some American commentators suspect Europeans of wanting to appease radical Islam. Others detect in sporadic manifestations of anti-Semitism a sinister conjunction of old fascism and new fundamentalism.[12]

The skeptical Matt Carr, writing in the academic journal Race & Class, describes this imagined scenario as follows:

According to the worst-case Eurabian predictions, by the end of the twenty-first century, most of Europe’s cities will be overrun with Arabic-speaking foreign immigrants, much of the continent will be living under Islamic Sharia law and Christianity will have ceased to exist or be reduced to a state of 'dhimmitude' [...] In the nightmare world of Eurabia, the future will become the past once again and Christians and Jews will become oppressed minorities in a sea of Islam; churches and cathedrals will be replaced by mosques and minarets, the call to prayer will echo from Paris to Rotterdam and London and the remnants of 'Judeo-Christian' Europe will have been reduced to small enclaves in a world of bearded Arabic-speakers and burka-clad women.[13]

The term Eurabia has been popularized by writers such Bat Ye'or, Oriana Fallaci,[14] Robert Spencer,[15] Daniel Pipes,[16] Ayaan Hirsi Ali,[17]Melanie Phillips,[18] Mark Steyn[19] (and several web sites[20]). Others, such as Bernard Lewis[21] and Bruce Bawer have presented comparable scenarios.

The term has become more common partly because it reflects a more general political tendency, which sees Islam as a major threat to Europe and its values[22]. Justin Vaisse, who is sceptical of the claimed transformation into Eurabia, spoke of this mood at the Brookings Institution:

I toured the bookshops and I was looking for books on Islam in Europe. And the only titles I could find, the only books I could find, bore titles likeWhile Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, by Bruce Bawer; The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?, by Tony Blankley; Eurabia, The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye'or; or Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too, byClaire Berlinski [...] And more generally, even more serious authors like Bernard Lewis or Niall Ferguson write things or give interviews[23]speaking of the Islamization of Europe, the reverse colonization, the demographic time bomb that is threatening Europe, et cetera, with the suggestion that the sky is falling.[24]

Waleed Aly, a devout Muslim, in an article published in the Melbourne Age, responding to Raphael Israeli's call for controls limiting Muslim immigration to Australia (lest a "critical mass" develop); observed that Raphael Israeli's comments are a cause for concern "because they are not as marginal as they are mad." Aly continues that Israeli's latest book "is an unoriginal appropriation of the 'Eurabia' conspiracy thesis of Jewish writer Bat Ye'or: that Europe is evolving into a post-Judeo-Christian civilisation increasingly subjugated to the jihadi ideology of Muslim migrants" and that the theory has received "enthusiastic support" from intellectuals in Europe and activists in the USA.[25]

Some partisans of the Eurabia theory have stated that 2005 civil unrest in France did not stop in November 2005, but french medias "stopped reporting about it"[26] "at the request of the French authorities"[26], so there are "unreported race riots in France"[27] since then, but "do not expect Western media to write about such topics"[26]. In November 2006, Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer wrote that the 751 French "Zone urbaine sensible" (fr) urban areas were Muslim no-go areas.[29] In January 2008, Michael Nazir-Ali stated that Islamic extremism had turned "already separate communities into 'no-go' areas" in the U.K.[30] In July 2009 Le Figaro reported that the wearing of the burka and other Muslim clothing is growing rapidly in France.[31] According to Thomas Landen, by 2009 there were arranged car trips through Sharia Muslim areas of various European cities, such as Sint-Jans-Molenbeek of Belgium and Rosengård in Sweden, that he called "Eurabia Safaris".[28]

[edit]Implications and response

Not all supporters of the theory see it as inevitable.[32] Some advocate the prohibition of Islam[33] and some advocate a direct confrontation.

In an article entitled Confrontation, not appeasement, Ayaan Hirsi Ali demands a confrontational policy at European level to meet the threat of radical Islam, and compares non-confrontational policies with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler.[34] Amongst other things, she proposes:

  • Constant monitoring of the demographic growth of the Muslim population in Europe, who should remain a minority and must not be given special treatment
  • Registration of all violent incidents against native Europeans, Jews and homosexuals, including the (religious) identity of the perpetrator
  • Europe must recognise the United States and Israel as allies in the struggle against radical Islam
  • development of alternative energy sources to reduce our dependence on foreign oil(to reduce dependence on oil (fr))
  • An European immigration policy (fr), which makes entry conditional on allegiance to the national constitution: all immigrants should sign a contract to obey the Constitution, and should be deported if they break it
  • Ideological confrontation with the young generation infected by radical Islam, and all Muslims must explicitly denounce radical Islam
  • Offer good education, close all Islamic schools, and prohibit the opening of new ones

During the conference "The Collapse of Europe" at Pepperdine University, Ayaan Hirsi Ali asked for reform, meaning "to reduce governmentwhere government is not necessary, and especially the welfare state."[35]

[edit]Criticism

The Economist has described the concept of Eurabia as scaremongering.[36] Matt Carr wrote that "What began as an outlandish conspiracy theory has become a dangerous Islamophobic fantasy"[13]

The first academic work to address the Eurabia thesis is Integrating Islam Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France, by scholars Justin Vaisse and Jonathan Laurence[37]. Professor Laurence begins:

Those who utter the term 'Eurabia' conjure up a mutant European continent under pressure from oil-producing states that has all but abandoned its values and policies to a horde of Arab immigrants. Our book attempts to dismantle that position by exploring the actual evolution of French policies towards Muslims and organized Islam since the 1970s. We try to do away with one of the false premises of 'Eurabia', namely, that French and European governments - fuelled by self-loathing multiculturalist policies- have capitulated to Muslims' cultural and religious demands.[24]

Justin Vaisse says the book intends to debunk "four myths of the alarmist school." Using Muslims in France as an example, he says:

  • The Muslim population is not growing as fast as the scenario claims, since the fertility rate of immigrants declines[38]
  • Muslims are not a monolithic or cohesive group[39]
  • Muslims do seek to integrate politically and socially[citation needed]
  • Despite their numbers, Muslims have little influence on foreign policy (e.g. policy toward Israel)[40]

According to David Aaronovitch:

[Eurabia] is a concept created by a writer called Bat Ye’or who, according to the publicity for her most recent book, "chronicles Arab determination to subdue Europe as a cultural appendage to the Muslim world — and Europe's willingness to be so subjugated". This, as students of conspiracy theories will recognise, is the addition of the Sad Dupes thesis to the Enemy Within idea.[41]

Claim of France leading the Eurabia conspiracy and "Europe's willingness to be so subjugated" can be seen as xenophobia toward France orEurope. According to Randy McDonald, "many Eurabianists are motivated by domestic politics"[22], by example the "European countries [being] skeptical about the Bush Administration’s foreign policy"[23] (including the Iraq War and pre-war since 2002) and "'Eurabia' has come into a new vogue among conservatives (particularly Anglophone ones) who blame European reluctance to support United States foreign-policy initiatives (like, say, Iraq)"[24].

Many partisans of the Eurabia theory claim that there is already 12%[42] Muslims in France, although 2007 polls showed only 3% Muslim.[43]According to The Economist, "[Bruce Bawer] uses wildly exaggerated statistics to give warning that Muslim birth rates will soon turn Europe into 'Eurabia'. The Muslim share of Switzerland's population is not an 'astonishing 20%', as Mr Bawer claims, but 4.3%, at least according to the 2000 Swiss census."[44] According to the CIA World Factbook and several other source, there were 14 to 16 million Muslims in European Union in 2007, that is 3% of total population (495 M). According to Matt Carr, an "expansion from 3 per cent to 40 per cent within twenty years would be nothing short of miraculous".[13][45]

Writer Ralph Peters concedes that Muslim assimilation is an issue and sees clashes between Muslim immigrants and Europeans as likely, but argues that the Eurabia thesis is the reverse of the real situation. "The endangered species isn't the 'peace loving' European lolling in his or her welfare state," he writes, "but the continent's Muslim immigrants." Citing Europe's violent and intolerant history, Peters predicts that once Europeans feel significantly threatened by Muslims, whether or not those feelings are justified, they will "over-react with stunning ferocity," ending in the ethnic cleansing of Muslims.[46]

French academic historian Ivan Jablonka, from École Normale Supérieure in Paris, asserts that Robert Spencer or Bat Ye'or's views lack of academic seriousness: their purported historical and interpretative continuity between some data picked up from Middle Age Islamic civilization and modern activism is a political construction poorly substantiated. For Jablonka, writings of authors like Spencer or Bat Ye'or relentlessly intent to designate "new enemies for wars to come", and "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis shares some of its certainty with the far right. The book faill easyly in the conspiracy paranoia".[47]

Common sense refutation of Eurabian theory proponents like Mark Stein, author of America Alone, is that their demographic predictions are based on extrapolating existing Muslim birth rates in Western Europe and, crucially, assuming that they will continue at this rate forever. Historical trends have repeatedly suggested that second or third generation descendents of immigrants have birth rates comparable to the native population.[48]

[edit]Comparisons with antisemitism

The theory of Eurabia has been compared to antisemitic writings by left-wing British journalist Johann Hari, who calls the two "startlingly similar" and says that "there are intellectuals on the British right who are propagating a conspiracy theory about Muslims that teeters very close to being a 21st century Protocols of the Elders of Mecca"[49], referring to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, journalist Andreas Malm[50] quotes Mark Steyn predicting genocide[51] and highlights theconspiratorical claims against Islam as a whole made by the Eurabia writers. In a follow-up article, journalist Eva Ekselius claims "Like the Jews were depicted as the foreign, the other, onto which one could project all the traits the culture wants to deny in themselves, so the 'muslims' now get to take over the second-hand props of anti-semitism" and makes a direct comparison to pre-war Europe.[52]

Israeli peace activist Adam Keller, in a letter of protest sent on June 2, 2008 to the Israeli publisher of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, wrote:

In 1886 the French antisemite Edouard Drumont published 'La France Juive' (Jewish France), creating the false nightmarish image of a France dominated by Jews, and sowing the poisonous seeds which came to fruit when Vichy French officials collaborated in the mass murder of French Jewry. [...] Bat Ye'or follows in notorious footsteps indeed by creating the false nightmarish image of a Europe dominated by Arabs and Muslims.[53]

[edit]See also

[edit]Books

[edit]References

  1. ^ See for example "the EU collectively surrendered to the dictates of Islamism. That is: Europe has adopted voluntary dhimmitude." in Eurabia, Time to Speak(Archive copy at the Internet Archive), "The EU must die, or Europe will die. It’s that simple. [...] the people who created Eurabia [...] The EU should be viewed that way, as a de facto, slow-motion abolition of European democracy" in Why the EU Needs to be Destroyed, and Soon, Gates of Vienna, 2006-06-05, "The refusal of theWestern elite class to protect their nations from jihadist infiltration is the biggest betrayal in history." in Serge Trifkovic, Can the West be saved?, 2008-05-10, "The Euro-Mediterranean 'Dialogue' is a masterpiece of abject surrender. The European Union functions therein as an intermediate stage of an ominous Eurabian project" in Nidra Poller, Referendum On A Constitution For A Patchwork Nation Without Borders, "the Euro-Arab Dialogue and the creation of the Eurabian networks [...] documented by Bat Ye'or [are] the greatest betrayals in the history of Western civilization" in Fjordman, A European Declaration of Independence, Brussels Journal, 2007-03-16, copy in frontpagemag.com[1], 2007-03-22;
  2. ^ "the Egyptian-born writer Bat Yeor popularized the term 'Eurabia' to express her vision of a Muslim-infiltrated Europe capitulating Munich-like to Islamism" in Roger Cohen, Why Obama should visit a mosque, The New York Times, 2008-06-25
  3. ^ 'Eurabia' Defined, Andrew G. Bostom, American Thinker, November 15, 2005
  4. ^ (French) Archive list Universités de Paris
  5. ^ Bat Ye'or, Le dialogue Euro-Arabe et la naissance d'Eurabia, Observatoire du Monde Juif, December 2002, English translation
  6. ^ (French) GREMMO websites [2] and [3]
  7. ^ (French) IUED website
  8. ^ MEDEA: Euro-Arab dialogue
  9. ^ Bat Ye'or, Beyond Munich The Spirit of Eurabia[4], 2004; see also this articles list
  10. ^ Bat Ye'or, Eurabia, National Review, 2002-10-09; see also "Eurabia is a tangible entity" in How Europe Became Eurabia[5], Front Page Magazine, 2004-07-27, "[a] process of surrender and moral support to jihadist ideology that is rotting Europe" and "Europeans are [...] conditioned by Palestinianism to hate America and Israel" in The Palestinianization of Europe[6], Front Page Magazine, 2007-04-26, "France, today, is one of the most anti-Semitic nations of modern Europe and the closest ally of Arab nations and their ruling dictators [...] Europe has been taken over by Arabs in particular and Muslims in general. [...] Aiding them in every way is France and the European Union whose hatred for Israel is as strong as its Muslim allies" in Alan Caruba, Call it Eurabia Now, National Anxiety Center, 2005-02-16, copy in Faith Freedom International web site, "many think a full-blown “Eurabia” is inevitable and irreversible" in Brigitte Gabriel, Remembering a Fallen Soldier…, 2009-09-14;
  11. ^ Bat Ye'or quoted in Caroline Glick, Europe's Arab gambit, The Jerusalem Post, 2004-04-04, copy here
  12. ^ Niall Ferguson, The way we live now: 4-4-04; Eurabia?, The New York Times, 2004-04-04
  13. ^ a b c d Matt Carr, You are now entering Eurabia, Race & Class, Vol. 48 No. 1, July 2006, Institute of Race Relations; see also his 2006-07-17 lecture;
  14. ^ "Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam" Oriana Fallaci quoted in Tunku Varadarajan, Prophet of Decline, The Wall Street Journal, 2005-06-23; (Italian) "Sono quattr' anni che parlo di nazismo islamico, di guerra all' Occidente, di culto della morte, di suicidio dell' Europa. Un' Europa che non è più Europa ma Eurabia e che con la sua mollezza, la sua inerzia, la sua cecità, il suo asservimento al nemico si sta scavando la propria tomba." in Oriana Fallaci, Il nemico che trattiamo da amico, Corriere della Sera, 2006-09-15
  15. ^ Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch websites
  16. ^ Daniel Pipes's website
  17. ^ "The monopoly of force that is now exclusive to states will be challenged by armed subgroups. European societies will be divided along ethnic and religious lines. The education system will not succeed in grooming the youth to believe in a shared past, let alone a shared future. The European states will find themselves limiting civil liberties. Europeans will come to accept the de facto implementation of Sharia law in certain neighborhoods and even cities. The exploitation of the weak, women and children will be commonplace. Those who can afford to emigrate will do so. Instead of an ever-growing union in Europe, future generations may witness an ever-disintegrating one." in Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Europe's Immigration Quagmire, LA Times, 2006
  18. ^ Melanie Phillips, Eurabia on the rampage, 2005-11-04; Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within, Encounter, London, 2006;
  19. ^ Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, 2006 and 2008; It's the Demography, Stupid, 2006-01-04; The future belongs to Islam, 2006-10-20
  20. ^ including Gates of Vienna, Paul Belien's Brussels Journal, Free Republic, Front Page Magazine, Fjordman's The Eurabia Code article and Defeating Eurabiacompilation, Richard Landes's Eurabia article (this web page list several web resources)
  21. ^ [7], [8], [9], [10] [11], [12], and "which could lead within the foreseeable future to significant Muslim majorities in at least some European cities or even countries" in Europe and Islam
  22. ^ see by example "Immigration from Muslim countries and the demographics will result in the Eurabia that the brave Bat Ye'or is warning about." in Geert Wilders, 2008-12-14
  23. ^ several of those authors are pointed by Filip Dewinter in a 2007-02-18 speech at Robert A Taft Club, Archive copy at the Internet Archive
  24. ^ a b Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France, 2006-09-13;
  25. ^ Waleed Aly, Hatred in a head count, The Age, 2007-02-19; see also Raphael Israeli's answer to Australian media coverage, 2007-02-22
  26. ^ a b c d e Thomas Landen, From the Ivory Tower: Newsweek Sees No Danger, Brussels Journal, 2009-07-16
  27. ^ Olivier Guitta, Mugged by la Réalité. The unreported race riot in France., The Weekly Standard, 2005-04-11, quoted in Robert Spencer, The unreported race riot in France, dhimmiwatch, 2005-04-08
  28. ^ a b Landen, Thomas (2009-08-27). "Eurabian Safari". Hudson Institute.
  29. ^ Daniel Pipes, The 751 No-Go Zones of France, danielpipes.org, 2006-11-14, Robert Spencer, The 751 No-Go Zones of France, dhimmiwatch, 2006-11-24; see also "the riots that gripped immigrant suburbs in France in the autumn of 2005 [...] were largely assertions of Muslim authority over Muslim neighborhoods, and thus clearly jihadist" in Bruce Bawer, An Anatomy of Surrender, City journal, "[in France] many suburbs [are] no-go areas for the police and increasingly for non-Muslims too" in Daniel Johnson, J'accuse, "For more than twenty years France’s Muslim areas have been out of control. Indeed, they only turned into Muslim ghettoes in the first place because Muslim violence and harassment forced everyone else out. And they became no-go areas for the police, seen by the Muslims as occupation forces entering their territory. [...] French Muslims want to be segregated. The ghettoes are a way of ensuring a separate Islamic existence without having to assimilate into French society." in Melanie Phillips, Why France is burning, 2005-11-07, "France's 751 no-go areas, the so-called zones urbaines sensibles (ZUS, sensitive urban areas), where 5 million people – 8 percent of the population – live" in Paul Belien, Sensitive Urban Areas: Has France Become a Narco State?, Brussels Journal, 2008-01-16, "In France, over 750 territorial enclaves have been given up by the state and are no longer controlled by the French authorities. These are the so-called 'zones urbaines sensibles' (ZUS, sensitive urban areas). They have even been listed as such on an official website. The ZUS are run by Muslim gangs, while the inhabitants live under a combination of Shariah law and mafia rule." in From the Ivory Tower[26], "in France [...] Many Arab ghettos are outside the law: no-go areas for the police." in David Pryce-Jones, Jews, Arabs, and French Diplomacy: A Special Report, Commentary Magazine, May 2005, "The Sharia areas of Europe [such] what the French officially call the ZUS (zones urbaines sensibles - sensitive urban areas) [...] Even today, eight million of the sixty million [13%] inhabitants of France already live in one of the country’s 751 ZUS." in Eurabian Safari [28];
  30. ^ Michael Nazir-Ali (2008-01-06). "Extremism flourished as UK lost Christianity". Sunday Telegraph.
  31. ^ Cécilia Gabizon (2009-07-02). "À Vénissieux, terre d'expansion de la burqa". Le Figaro. Retrieved 2009-07-13.; "Partout en France, le nombre de femmes «ninja» suit une courbe «exponentielle», selon l'imam de Guyancourt (Yvelines), Abdelali Mamoun. Des communautés prospèrent en région parisienne. À Trappes, aux Mureaux, à Mantes, Argenteuil, Stains, Nanterre, Sartrouville, mais aussi Puteaux, Grigny, Évry ou encore Longjumeau et, désormais, dans des zones plus rurales."
  32. ^ for those who do, see especially "Eurabia represents a geo-political reality" and "Western Europe [...] future is Eurabia. Period.", Bat Ye'or quoted by Jamie Glazov, Eurabia[13], Front Page Magazine, 2004-09-21
  33. ^ (French) manifesto in Le devoir de précaution
  34. ^ a b (Dutch) Confrontatie, geen verzoening, de Volkskrant, 8 April 2006, copy here
  35. ^ 2007-06-19, quoted by bigpicweblog.com, conference The collapse of Europe at Pepperdine University with americanfreedomalliance.org; see also "[Mark Steyn] argues for dissolving Europe's welfare" in Johann Hari, 'America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It' by Mark Steyn, The New Statesman, 2007-03-12, Bruce Bawer claiming that european "big-government, welfare-state social democracy" is a "kind of fundamentalism" in While Europe Slept interview with Bruce Bawer[14], Front Page Magazine, 2006-05-23;
  36. ^ "Tales from Eurabia". The Economist. June 22 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2008. "Integration will be hard work for all concerned. But for the moment at least, the prospect of Eurabia looks like scaremongering."
  37. ^ Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaïsse (fr), Integrating Islam Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France, Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8157-5151-6
  38. ^ See also Randy McDonald, France, its Muslims, and the Future, 2004-04-13, Doug Saunders, The 'Eurabia' myth deserves a debunking, The Globe and Mail, 2008-09-20, Fewer differences between foreign born and Swedish born childbearing women, Statistics Sweden, 2008-11-03, Denmark: Immigrants/Danes have same number of children, Statistics Denmark quoted by dr.dk, 2009-05-06, Mary Mederios Kent, Do Muslims have more children than other women in western Europe?, Population Reference Bureau, prb.org, February 2008; for fertility of Muslims outside Europe, see the sentences "The dramatic decline in Iran's fertility provides a recent example of how strict Islamic practices can coexist with widespread use of family planning," (in Do Muslims have...), "Turkish women have 1.92 children in average, Tunisian women 1.74. Iranian women? 1.8 children." in Øyvind Strømmen, Fisking Mark Steyn, 2006-11-07, and the articles by Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi and Mary Mederios Kent, Fertility Declining in the Middle East and North Africa, prb.org, April 2008, especially the figure 2, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran, especially the figure 1, Yoram Ettinger, Demographic implosion in Muslim societies, The Jerusalem Post, 2008-10-28; see also "[Muslims] breed like rats" in Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride, "3.5 children per couple (which is the estimated European Muslim fertility rate)" in Mark Stey, De-bonning Turkey at the Internet Archive, National Review, 2007-04-17, "a fertility rate of 3.5 (the Euro-Muslim estimate)" in Mark Stey, Population Data, National Review, 2009-05-05, "[according to MarkSteyn] the fertility rate [...] of Muslim countries is exploding" ("[d'après Mark Steyn] le taux de fécondité [...] des pays musulmans explose") in Richard Martineau (fr), Quand le monde sera musulman, Journal de Montréal, 2008-06-19;
  39. ^ See also "Merely speaking of a 'Muslim community in France' can be misleading and inaccurate: like every immigrant population, Muslims in France exhibit strong cleavages based on the country of their origin, their social background, political orientation and ideology, and the branch or sect of Islam that they practice (when they do)." in Justin Vaisse, Unrest in France, November 2005, 2006-01-12; "What Turkish and Senegalese and Indonesian Muslims have in common [...] isn't immediately obvious." in Randy McDonald, Why "Eurabia" Is Like "Jew York City": An Examination of Terminologies, 2005-01-17;
  40. ^ See also Justin Vaïsse, La France et les musulmans: une politique étrangère sous influence?, April 2007 (French); Pascal Boniface (fr), 50 idées reçues sur l'état du monde, 2008, ISBN 978-2-200-35052-9, chapters 23 "La France est pro-arabe" & 24 "La politique extérieure française est guidée par l'antiaméricanisme"(French);
  41. ^ David Aaronovitch (2005-11-15). "It's the latest disease: sensible people saying ridiculous things about Islam". The Times. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
  42. ^ "France is already 12% Muslim and Switzerland 20%"[15] in Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept, "Muslims are around 12 percent of the French population." inGuy Millière (fr), A New Muslim Country[16], 2003-05-12, "In France at least 12 percent of the population is already Muslim" in Lowell Ponte, Goodbye Europe[17], 2006-03-27, "In France approximately ten percent of the population are Muslims." in Geert Wilders, speech to the Danish parliament, 2008-06-01, "In France, the percentage may reach to 12 or 13 percent." in Francis Fukuyama, Europe vs. Radical Islam - Alarmist Americans have mostly bad advice for Europeans, 2006-02-27; sometimes 20%: "France is already 20% Muslim" in Arlene Peck, It's them vs. us... Everywhere!, "France is already 20% Muslim" inA letter to my sons by Posey McMillan/Carl Hutchinson/Michael Sullivan, "almost twenty percent of the people in France" in Thomas Segel, The French-Muslim Connection, 2004-05-04, "France has the largest percentage of Muslims of any country in Europe" in Gates of Vienna, 2008-10-31, "[France] is now occupied by Islamic immigrants totally twenty percent of the population." in Larry H. Abraham, The clash of civilizations and the great caliphate, May 2004, Archive copy at the Internet Archive, "The highest estimate of Muslims in France is 12 million on a population of 61 million [that is] 20 per cent" in From the Ivory Tower[26];
  43. ^ (French) Ifop,Sofres (Archive copy at the Internet Archive); people who are muslim or have muslim ancestors are supposed to be between 5% and 10%
  44. ^ Muslims and the West, The Economist, 2006-06-22, copy here
  45. ^ see also "the EU's population will be 40 percent Muslim by 2025", Mark Steyn quoted in Andrew Sullivan, America Less Alone?, The Daily Dish, 2007-03-12;Steyn and his numbers; "the entire thesis of Steyn's book evaporates into thin air" in Andrew Sullivan, Quote for the Day, 2007-03-09; The North Repopulates, 2009-05-03, Martin Walker, The World's New Numbers, [18]; "[For some claim of him, Mark Steyn] needs to turn 20 million European Muslims into more than 150 million in nine years, which is a lot of humping." in Johann Hari, Ship of fools: Johann Hari sets sail with America's swashbuckling neocons, July 2007; Fjordman, Robert Spencer (chapter 18), Daniel Pipes and some others claiming since 2004 that 25% of Malmö population is Muslim (According to wikipedia.org, there is 25% Muslims in the foreigners inhabited Rosengård district, which total population is about 22,000, and 55,000 Muslimsin Malmö metropolitan area, that is 9% of 628,000 total population); "Europe will – maybe not in 20, but rather 30-40 years from now – have a Muslim majority of population", Morten Messerschmidt (da) quoted in Jamie Glazov, Europe's Suicide?[19], Front Page Magazine, 2006-04-26; "native Swedes [will be] turned into a minority in their own country [...] in a few decades if [the current] level of immigration continues." in Fjordman, My Farewell to Little Green Footballs, Gates of Vienna, 2007-11-14; "a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now." in Geert Wilders, 2008-09-25; "At present demographic rates, by 2020 the majority of children in Holland — i.e., the population under 18 — will be Muslim." in Mark Steyn, Europeans are Worse than Cockroaches, The Spectator, 2003-11-08; "In Holland, in the year 2020, 10 years away, half of all the people aged 18 and under will be Muslim." in Stuart Varney,Glenn Beck Show, 2009-06-08; "the continent could be majority-Muslim within decades" in Daniel Pipes, Muslim Europe, New York Sun, 2004-05-11; "Demographically it is only a matter of time before the followers of the only true religion prevail here. The number of Muslims in Western Europe is appeasing according to official estimates, fifteen million, but that number has long been disputed by some critics who say that now goes to forty million. [...] At some point, the majority of Europeans will be Muslim" ("Demografisch gezien is het nog maar een kwestie van tijd tot de volgelingen van het enige ware geloof ook hier de overhand krijgen. Het aantal moslims in West-Europa ligt volgens sussende officiële schattingen op vijftien miljoen, maar dat aantal wordt allang betwist door critici van wie sommigen zeggen dat het inmiddels om veertig miljoen gaat. [...] Op enig moment zal de meerderheid van de Europeanen bestaan uit moslims") in Ayaan Hirsi Ali,Confrontation, not appeasement[34]; "Within 20 years, one person out of four in France will be Muslim" in Guy Millière[20] quoted by Fjordman; "the imminent arrival of Eurabia can be dismissed as poor mathematics. Muslim minorities in Europe are indeed growing fast and causing political friction, but they account for less than 5% of the total population, a tiny proportion by American standards of immigration. Even if that proportion trebles in the next 20 years, Eurabia will still be a long way off." in The Economist; "It's now obvious: at end of 21st century, white Europeans will be minority in their continent" ("la perspective apparait désormais clairement : à la fin du XXIe siècle, les Européens de souche seront minoritaires sur leur continent") in Aymeric Chauprade (fr), Chronique du choc des civilisations, ISBN 978-2205-06220-5, page 58; "many demographers estimate that as much as 20-30 per cent of the [French] population under 25 is now Muslim. [...] Given current birth rates, it is not impossible that in 25 years France will have a Muslim majority." in Barbara Amiel, Is France on the way to becoming an Islamic state?, The Daily Telegraph, 2004-01-25 (quoted by Fjordman); John Lichfield, Our Man In Paris: France will never be a Muslim state, The Independent, 2004-02-03; "in France, approximately one birth in three is to a Muslim family." in Jennifer Morse, Acton Institute, 2006-01-25; "a third of the young people in France have been born to Muslim parents" in John Reilly, 2006; "1 out of every 3 babies born in France today is a Muslim baby." in Hugh Fitzgerald, Douce France, 2004-06-23; "Given current birthrates, France could be a majority Muslim country in 25 years" in Sam Harris, On the Reality of Islam, 2006-02-07; "Within twenty years, Muslims will be a majority in France." in Guy Milliere, France is Almost Finished[21], 2003-04-10; "Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and many other [european] cities from Scandinavia to the Côte d’Azur will reach majority Muslim status in the next few years." in Mark Steyn, Israel Today, the West Tomorrow, Commentary Magazine, May 2009; "By 2025, one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families." in Paul Belien, The Rape of Europe, Brussels Journal, 2006-20-25; "[in Belgium and in Netherlands] 50% of all newborns are Muslim" in Muslim Demographics video at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash); "France may be half Muslim by 2050" in Richard Baehr, Why Europe Abandoned Israel, The American Thinker, 2007-01-13; "Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century." in Adrian Michaels, Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent, telegraph.co.uk, 2009-08-08, "Last year, five per cent of the total population of the 27 EU countries was Muslim. But rising levels of immigration from Muslim countries and low birth rates among Europe's indigenous population mean that, by 2050, the figure will be 20 per cent, according to forecasts. Data gathered from various sources indicate that Britain, Spain and Holland will have an even higher proportion of Muslims in a shorter amount of time." in Adrian Michaels, A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050, telegraph.co.uk, 2009-08-08; "according to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about fifty years" in Pat Condell, Islam in Europe at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash), 2007-08-17; "Of course France has 2 children per woman, but out of five newborns, two [40%] are already Arabic or African. In Germany 35 per cent of all newborns already have a non-German background [...] Or take the Tunisian example. A woman in Tunisia has 1.7 children. In France she may have six because the French government pays her to have them.", Gunnar Heinsohn quoted in Lars Hedegaard (da), Interview: A Continent of Losers, sappho.dk, May 2007, original Danish version; "The Europeans simply aren't reproducing", Bruce Thornton in Peter Robinson, 2008-03-06 interview, video at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash), transcript; "This government is enthusiastically co-operating with the Islamization of the Netherlands. In all of Europe the elite opens the floodgates wide. In only a little while, one in five people in the European Union will be Muslim." ("Althans, met de integratie van Nederland in de dar-al-islam, de islamitische wereld. Enthousiast werkt dit kabinet mee aan de islamisering van Nederland. In heel Europa zet de elite de sluizen open. Nog even en dan is één op de vijf mensen in de Europese Unie moslim.") in Geert Wilders,speech to the Dutch parliament, 2009-09-16;
  46. ^ Ralph Peters, The 'Eurabia' Myth, New York Post, 2006-11-26
  47. ^ (French) Ivan Jablonka, La peur de l'Islam, Bat Ye'or et le spectre de l'Eurabie (The fear of Islam, Bat Ye'or and the specter of Eurabia), La Vie des idées (fr), 2006-05-01
  48. ^ see the note 38
  49. ^ Johann Hari, Amid all this panic, we must remember one simple fact - Muslims are, The Independent, London, 2006-08-21; see also "It is not an exaggeration to see in these wild conspiracy theories a mutation of Europe’s old, toxic anti-Semitism. What are Fallaci and Ye’or offering but the Protocols of the Elders of Muhammad?" in Johann Hari, Islam in the West, Dissent magazine, winter 2007, Øyvind Strømmen, The Elders of Mecca, 2009-02-22, "The whole idea of Eurabia is a conspiracy theory, there is no doubt about it." ("Tanken om Eurabia är en klockren konspirationsteori."), Jonas Otterbeck quoted in Niklas Orrenius(sv), "Eurabia" jämförs med konspirationsteorier ("Eurabia" is compared with conspiracy theories), Sydsvenskan, 2009-09-05, quoted and translated in Is Eurabia a Conspiracy Theory?, Gates of Vienna, 2009-09-06 and criticized in Kent Ekeroth (Sweden Democrats), Media om seminariet, 2009-09-07;
  50. ^ (Swedish) Andreas Malm (sv), De Räddas Revelj, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 2008-02-10
  51. ^ "Why did Bosnia collapse into the worst slaughter in Europe since World War Two? [...] The Serbs figured that out, as other Continentals will in the years ahead, if you can't outbreed the enemy, cull'em." in Mark Steyn, America Alone; see also Mark Steyn#Eurabia, Mark Kleiman, Mark Steyn's Final Solution to the Euro-Muslim Problem, The Reality Based Community, 2007-02-18, Andrew Sullivan, Steyn and Genocide, The Daily Dish, 2007-02-19, Andrew Sullivan, Steyn, Reynolds, Genocide, The Daily Dish, 2007-02-21, Christopher Hitchens, Facing the Islamist Menace, City journal, Winter 2007 edition;
  52. ^ (Swedish) Eva Ekselius, Bli Moderna Nu, Annars..., Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 2008-03-27 ("[...] Liksom judarna utmålades som det främmande, det andra [...]")
  53. ^ Adam Keller, Drumont's Jewish disciple, 2008-06-02; see also "Stripped of its Islamic content, the broad contours of Ye’or’s preposterous thesis recall the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the first half of the twentieth century and contemporary notions of the 'Zionist Occupation Government' prevalent in far-right circles in the US." in You are now entering Eurabia[13], "the 'Jewish threat' in the 1930s was entirely fictional, whereas the 'Islamic threat' now is very real." in Fjordman,Swedish Welfare State Collapses as Immigrants Wage War, Brussels Journal, 2006-03-28, 'their own rhetoric and ideas are indistinguishable from those of the anti-Semites of the early 20th century [...] Substitute "Muslim" for "Jew" in the scared-stiff [...] screeds of Steyn, Amis, and others, and you will hear an exact replica of the anti-Semitism that was so rife throughout Western "civilization" in the pre-Holocaust years.' in Chris Floyd, Panic Attackers: Once More Into the Sink of Fear With Steyn, Amis and the Islamophobes, 2009-08-15;

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