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How Europe Became Eurabia
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 7/27/04 | Bat Ye’or

Posted on 07/27/2004 4:14:41 AM PDT by kattracks

Last Tuesday, the 25 nations of the European Union (EU) voted unanimously to support  a United Nations Resolution condemning Israel’s defensive fence (ignoring that this barrier was constructed to keep jihadist murderers from entering the nation via Judea and Samaria). The EU’s craven, morally bankrupt stance was sadly consistent with Eurabian policies evident now for three decades. In fact, the EU has been completing a slow metamorphasis into the "Christian" arm of the Pan-Arab world, different in religious observation (or lack of same) but united in its views of Israel and America.

The European Community (EC), and later the EU, has been aligned with Arab policy regarding Israel and the United States since its June 1977 declaration. Disruption of the Western alliance by separating Europe from America, and the piecemeal destruction of Israel were the pillars of the Euro-Arab alliance that gave birth to Eurabia. The formation of this tactical alliance can be traced clearly to a document issued 24 years ago. Prompted by fears of Khomeini's Shi’ite theocracy in Iran, international Arab terrorism and the rise of oil prices, the EC adopted the 1980 Venice Declaration. This declaration made clear that the EC, under French leadership, had adopted Pan-Arab conditions regarding Israel without qualification, including: the 1949 armistice as Israel’s legitimate borders;  Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem; an Arab Palestinian state; the recognition of the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinians, as well as its participation in all negotiations, and the obligation of Israel to negotiate with Arafat, exclusively; and the refusal to recognize a separate peace between Israel and any Arab country, for the resolution of the "Palestinian problem." By adopting all those conditions (which contradicted UN Resolution 242) Europeans could in turn justify their ahistorical designation of Judea and Samaria as occupied Arab land. Ultimately, the entire European effort to delegitimize and vilify Israel hinges upon this inaccurate, disingenuous formulation. In the 1970s and 80s, the Communist bloc and the burgeoning Euro-Arab alliance granted international legitimacy to the denial of Israel’s rights by the PLO. France, and to a lesser extent Germany, directed  the entire European Community foreign policy in accord with Arab-Islamic sentiments. A careful reading of the Venice Declaration (1980), the  Fez Islamic Conference (1980), the Amman Arab Summit (1980), and the Taif-Mecca Islamic Summit (1981) reveals the similarities between the European and Arab positions in relation to Israel. Europe’s modified wording is just a fig-leaf.

 

This subterfuge allows the EU to pose as a “neutral” agent between Israel and the Arab world and to retain a role in the peace-for-terrorists-process. At the Durban circus in September 2001, European representatives tried in vain to conceal the anti-American and anti-Semitic animus that permeates Eurabian policies, most visibly through the collusion of Eurabian and Arab NGOs. And again, during the recently completed International Court of Justice proceedings in The Hague, Eurabian judges employed similar tactics but joined their colleagues from the Muslim world in finding Israel’s anti-terrorist barrier “illegal” (and thus denying the Jewish state its legal right to self-defense).

 

Beyond a fleeting awareness, the overwhelming majority of Europeans and Americans do not understand the new Eurabian entity, which only the first step in a steady progression toward its Arabization and Islamization. Europe has evolved from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment/secular elements, to a "civilization of dhimmitude," i.e., Eurabia: a secular-Muslim transitional society with its traditional Judeo-Christian mores rapidly disappearing.

This evolution of Europe has been duplicated internally within every EU country. This deliberate, comprehensive process has taken place through several means: the control of  Middle Eastern Studies departments at European universities, and the re-writing of historical textbooks;  allowing Euro-Arab bodies to screen cultural exchanges and publications relating to Islam and the Arab Muslim world for unwelcome content; taboos imposed on issues related to immigration and Islam; disinformation campaigns demonizing Israel (and America), while fostering a comprehensive and “brotherly” alliance between EU and Arab League countries on the political, economic, cultural, and social levels; and the servile obedience of the EU's mainstream media to all these initiatives. 

Most recently, this program of Euro-Arab symbiosis has been codified in a detailed report entitled, “Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean Area.” Released last October, this report (whose contributors included Umberto Eco and Tariq Ramadan) was to establish complete interdependence between Europe and the Arab-Muslim world. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, established the High-Level Advisory Group which stated the aims, policies, and routine functions of the foundation. The Advisory Group mandated that the foundation have complete financial and administrative independence in managing its budget and in choosing its partners. In support of this remarkable request, the Advisory Group argued that the foundation needed considerable resources to cover its activities that would be extraordinarily expensive, as they will encompass all the countries of the EU. The Advisory Group further justified such conditions by invoking its lofty aim, which “is nothing less than peace itself.” And this “peace” -- accomplished through “brotherly love” and “dialogue” between the North and the South of the Mediterranean -- will be achieved by a total economic, political, and cultural fusion.

This May (2004), the EU followed this report up by accepting the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures, named after Anna Lindh, the Swedish minister murdered by a deranged man. Lindh was a staunch defender of Arafat and advocated an economic boycott of Israel by the EU, a policy long desired by Eurabian politicians. Not surprisingly, the Anna Lindh Foundation draws inspiration from the spirit of Edward Said, the late  dhimmi ideologue bent upon subverting Western culture, and values. The Anna Lindh  Foundation endeavors to fight what it dubs “Fortress Europe” on Arab immigration issues, and to establish a totalitarian academic structure which alone will be entitled to teach and publish material on the Euro-Arab Mediterranean. It will also monitor the texbooks and university curricula for all of the EU. Moreover, the Foundation promotes  the vision of a unified Euro-Mediterranean world where people are not even defined as being from the North or the South, (terms considered too provocative as they might evoke visions of a once-Christian North and a very Muslim South). The Euro-Arab continent will instead be populated by an amorphous mass called only “Us,” without acknowledged ethnic, national, or religious features. In reality, Europe is creating a gigantic Muslim community, or “umma,” which is also inhabited by an anonymous (and precipitously dying) European dhimmi population.

 

One can choose to ignore it, but Eurabia is a tangible entity. Eurabia has a discernible historical development, and its functionaries are now well entrenched in each European parliament, and at the head of the European Commission. Often Javier Solana merely parrots the Arab League's Amr Moussa, or the Palestinian Authority's Yasser Arafat. Hence Solana's parrots the pan-Arab refrain that no reforms can be achieved in any Muslim country before the settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, reiterating the same fatuous statements made by Amr Moussa. The EU continues to proclaim that all negotiations must be conducted with Arafat alone and that the Middle East conflict is at the center of world politics. Those two assertions were repeated endlessly at the Fez, Amman, and Taif Summits (1980-81). The EU’s unlimited funds finance anti-Israeli and anti-American campaigns, as well as the "dialogue" industry. Regarding Israel in particular, it appears as if the EU has become the obsequious mouthpiece of the Arab League.

 This Eurabian ethos operates at all levels of European society. Its countless functionaries, like the Christian janissary slave-soldiers of past Islamic regimes, advance a jihadist world strategy. Eurabia cannot change direction; it can only use deception to mask its emergence, its bias and its inevitable trajectory. Eurabia’s destiny was sealed when it decided, willingly, to become a covert partner with the Arab global  jihad against America and Israel. Americans must discuss the tragic development of Eurabia, and its profound implications for the United States, particularly in terms of its resultant foreign policy realities. Americans should consider the despair and confusion of many Europeans, prisoners of a Eurabian totalitarianism that foments a culture of deadly lies about Western civilization. Americans should know that this self-destructive calamity did not just happen, rather it was the result of deliberate policies, executed and monitored by ostensibly responsible people. Finally, Americans should understand that Eurabia’s contemporary anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism are the spiritual heirs of 1930s Nazism and anti-Semitism, triumphally resurgent.



TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batyeor; dhimmitude; eu; eurabia; muslims

1 posted on 07/27/2004 4:14:41 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
How Europe Became Eurabia

The 'Fabian' plan: "V"

2 posted on 07/27/2004 4:20:26 AM PDT by maestro
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To: Travis McGee
You're gonna love this.
3 posted on 07/27/2004 4:23:21 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
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To: kattracks
Europeans just aren't happy unless they are licking someone's boot, or in this case, a dirt encrusted foot.
4 posted on 07/27/2004 5:28:20 AM PDT by Leisler (Democrat Plantation Slaves Revolt!)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.


5 posted on 07/27/2004 5:39:08 AM PDT by SJackson (He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has 10 times since 1983, Sandy Berger)
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To: SJackson

What she writes is shocking. More is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=batyeor

What is also shocking is that I did not see other researchers picking up this thesis. Is Bat Ye'or alone in this? Is she wrong and seeing things that are not there? She sounds convincing to me.


6 posted on 07/27/2004 5:53:37 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: SJackson
Post modern atheism, hunger fro Arab oil, low birth rates, anti-Semitism. Wusses in awe of strident Muslims

What more can one expect?
7 posted on 07/27/2004 5:56:52 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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To: Tolik

Before expanding on the European experience where foreign influence is changing political considerations, it would be wise to look at our own culture and the political considerations that are changing our country due to foreign influence. Si Senor?


8 posted on 07/27/2004 6:02:27 AM PDT by meenie
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To: dennisw
Post modern atheism.....

More like post-Christian era socialism.

9 posted on 07/27/2004 7:01:42 AM PDT by wtc911 (6 Flags Dancing Guy is Urkel.....wanna bet?)
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To: Balkans; joan; Destro; Lion in Winter; getgoing


A must read


10 posted on 07/27/2004 7:19:16 AM PDT by DTA
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To: Leisler

I don't think that is is dirt encrusting the feet.


11 posted on 07/27/2004 7:35:05 AM PDT by SledgeCS (Do you consider yourself a true American because a hyphen diminishes and divides what it describes)
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To: kattracks

bttt


12 posted on 07/27/2004 8:07:12 AM PDT by happygrl
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To: Tolik
She has devoted her life to the study and explication of Islamic law and reconquest. If you look at Amazon, I think she has 3-4 books out on this. We own 2 of them, one being out of print. The volumes we own are extensively footnoted. She speaks Arabic and the foundation of her study is legalistic. She appears to have read and understood the entirety of Arabic Islamic law.

Off the top of my head, Daniel Pipes. Oriana Fallachi and Steven Schwartz and an Islamic apostate, convert to Christianity are also writing about this. Pym Fortune in the Netherlands died for stating similar truths.

In the EU, such writings are hate speech. They are forbidden and punished by prison, fines and lack of access to publication. Bridget Bardot, for example, lauded over her animal-wacko support, was recently punished for making anti-Islamist statements.

The American press spikes this sort of article. Most of the anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-Christian,anti-Republican, anti-conservative avalanche we have had to contend with the past 3 1/2 years is because the Islamists have the same goal for America and, indeed, for the entire world.
13 posted on 07/27/2004 10:11:32 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Proud Bush-Cheney04 volunteer)
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To: reformedliberal
In my arguments with another side when I brought in her research about Europe accommodating Arabs in the centralized and organized way, that their current condition was predetermined by the steps taken back in the 70s, and that they knowingly turned their policy from support of Israel to support of Arabs, I was asked to bring other than Bat Ye'or sources. I am good in searching Internet, but found only scraps or echo of that agreements that were established back in 70s. May be all that documents are in French?

I did not have her books in-front of me, only the Internet sources.
14 posted on 07/27/2004 10:27:05 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik
Her footnotes are often Arabic legal documents and mind-numbing EU legal documents.

There is no way to argue this w/a leftist. These are unthoughts. The inculcated will become angry at you for even thinking these things and they will go ballistic if you have documentation. They will then proceed to discredit the documentation. Come up w/additional documentation and those, too will be discredited and you will be denigrated for having no credible sources. If you quote the various European Islamists (one in the Netherlands is also a lawyer and a Dutch citizen called Abu Jah Jah and is searchable), you will be accused of quoting out of context, being a racist or being too uneducated to understand nuance.

One of Ye'ors' main threads is dhimmitude. The left, the apologists for EU/UN/Islamists exhibit the mind set of the slave/serf. It has already happened.

I no longer even try w/those who have finished drinking the Kool-Aid. Sometimes, I listen to them spout, just to get the flavor of how they have adapted the talking points to particular situations. However, if it is someone important to you, you can simply begin a file of evidence from around the world:hate speech laws, activists sitting in churches to make sure no *hate* or *bias* or *politics* is spoken,Islamic call to prayer in Michigan, students role playing Islam in California public schools, mainstream Protestant *churches* discussing taking down their crosses in order to be *sensitive*,various civil rights groups protecting jihadis, et al. Document everything. Look specifically for sources that are not conservative or Jewish or Christian, as these will be dismissed as biased and ignorant.

But, I think it is a lost cause. Until we have to deal w/honor killings and gang rapes by Muslim youths and Christians being jailed, etc, no one will listen. Even when it becomes evident what is occurring, there will always be 20% who will willingly adhere to dhimmitude.
15 posted on 07/27/2004 10:51:44 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Proud Bush-Cheney04 volunteer)
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To: reformedliberal
Very good response, thanks.

I am talking about some long time friends, otherwise smart and nice, who dislike Bush and are critical of Israel. I guess propaganda works. I am not ready to give up on people I knew practically all my life. And they are not 100% leftists neither, far from it: a mixture of some conservatism and libertarianism with liberalism taking somewhat more than 50%.

You well described the discrediting of sources process. Sounds familiar.

On number occasions I was trying to cut through with the logic like: when you are stuck with somebody in the room, who would you prefer?

Or something similar to what Dennis Prager brilliantly wrote today: Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179258/posts

Best regards,
16 posted on 07/27/2004 11:32:16 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: kattracks
How Europe Became Eurabia

Did it have anything to do with Clinton bombing the wrong side unilaterally to give Osama (not the senate candidate from IL) a foothold over there so he could plan the 911 attacks in Germany?

17 posted on 07/27/2004 11:39:53 AM PDT by bankwalker (Washington needs an enema.)
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To: bankwalker
>>>>>>Did it have anything to do with Clinton bombing the wrong side unilaterally to give Osama (not the senate candidate from IL) a foothold over there so he could plan the 911 attacks in Germany?<<<<

Sandy Bergler could answer that question Without creation of AQ foothold in BOsnia perhaps there would be no 9-11. (some of the "10 errors of CIA and FBI" would be averted or prevented)

18 posted on 07/27/2004 11:54:49 AM PDT by DTA
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To: kattracks
Before Europe can become Islamicized it must first be de-Europeanized. That is the root problem, the self-hatred among the elites and the people in EVERY country in the West. Internal corruption not external threat. It's just geographical and historical coincidence that Europe is going Islamic. Here is an article from Paul Gottfried on this subject, and another from "The Spectator".
19 posted on 07/27/2004 2:26:33 PM PDT by jordan8
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To: jordan8

bump


20 posted on 07/27/2004 2:52:39 PM PDT by Eva
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