Posted on 02/18/2005 9:05:01 AM PST by quidnunc
It was just a coincidence that "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" appeared in the mail the same day a New York Times article on the subject of Eurabia landed on the doorstep. "Eurabia," the long-awaited book by Bat Ye'or, is a comprehensive, even overwhelming and absolutely shocking explication of how and why it is that Europe is transforming itself into what the Egyptian-born historian calls "a new geopolitical entity " Eurabia." The New York Times article, on the other hand, a muddled analysis by Craig S. Smith about the "fear of Islamists" and the "far right" in Belgium, is one more illustration of how desperately Bat Ye'or's trail-blazing work is needed.
Few of us have the long-view vision to make sense of the sweep of history as it smokes past our eyes; Bat Ye'or, as a historian of Islam, and, in particular, the dhimmi (the non-Muslim peoples who live as second-class citizens under Islamic rule), has precisely the laser-lens required. She also has the fortitude of the historian/gumshoe to wade through the stacks of articles, memoranda and conference declarations generated by something called the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD).
Created 30-odd years ago at the instigation of France and the Arab League, the practically unknown EAD has provided structural and theoretical underpinnings to a Euro-Arab axis — Eurabia. These have fostered the political, economic and cultural bonds between Europe and the Arab world that Bat Ye'or maintains were designed to create "a global alternative to American power."
How? Very basically " and this is detailed in the book — by shepherding a meeting of Euro-Arab minds, first and foremost, on the Arab League war on Israel. This would come about in exchange for freely flowing Arab oil into Europe, which would come about in exchange for freely flowing Muslim immigration into Europe…
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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It won't be long before Bat Yor is on the fatwa hit list, or just turns up dead. The Muhammadans went about conquering Europe all wrong in centuries past. All they had to do was just knock on the door and ask to be let in!
---interesting. I would expect that the combining of European nanny-state socialism and Islam will create something as repressive (and as successful) as the former USSR, with the smart ones trying to escape to what is left of the US of A----
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Well, in light of what happened in New Jersey to the Coptic Christian family (and the subsequent lying and denial by the local gub'mint officialdom there - the usual "It was just a robbery" lie), I would be very surprised if Bat Yeor weren't already on an official TROP™ 'top asassination goals of 2005.'
In centuries past, there were Christians in Europe who were willing to fight the Mohammedan swarms. Now, they're invited in to promote the new EU state religion - multiculturalism.
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Bat Ye'or bump!
I refer you and all FR viewers to the article by David
Pryce-Jones in the Dec. '04 issue of Commentary, titled
"The Islamization of Europe?". Because the native EUROS
are ageing and have a rapidly declining birth rate they
are welcoming the sunami of Islamists to Europe to wait
on their tables and keep their streets clean until their
pension systems collapse. This augments the anti-Semitism
and anti-Americanism that comes from the EU. Just as we
in the U.S. are losing the 2nd Mexican War by out-of-
control borders and the massive influx of illegals, so
the EUROS are losing the Crusades again.
There's those two words that seem to always go together these days..france/arab. We might as well just start putting them together from now on.
The sooner the rest of Europe understands this the better. Maybe a few will get out without being forced to convert to Islam or become slaves.
I understand that greater Europe is the main concern for the future but the true state is that we have "Franabia" only for now.
This distinction will be very important when we try to throw all of Europe into one group. I am sure that Poland, Italy and Britain would object to an assumption of a current state of "Eurabia".
I have never heard that. I have heard they draw just under 25% in the Flemish regions in opinion polling, but that is not the same thing. As usual, quality numbers on Islam, militant Islam and anti-Islam in European countries are hard to get.
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Are you familiar with the work of Bat Ye’or and the issue of Dhimmitude, as well as her more recent research into the issue of Eurabia? I tend to be somewhat skeptical of ‘conspiracy’ theories (not that her views on Eurabia are conspiratorial in the classic sense), but it does suggest some rather worrying possibilities with regard to European alliances with Arab causes (and personalities) and the long term implications this has for American-European relations.
Victor Davis Hanson: Yes, I am familiar with her work. She is not a conspiracist at all, but an empiricist, whose work is based on observation, facts, and logic: look at the demography of Europe; look at the history of Christians living under Muslims (going to Church in Saudi Arabia is not the same as worshipping in a mosque in Madrid); and read not what Western elites say about Muslim clerics, but what Muslim clerics themselves say. So, yes, she is a scholar and should not be dismissed because her views bother us because they are largely insightful. Europe has a gut-check time coming very soon as it ponders Islamic populations in its own borders, the admission of Turkey into the EU (in some ways very good for the US, a disaster for Europe), and nuclear missile capability of Iran. We shall see whether it reawakens or not.
Thanks for the ping.
Interesting article.
I disagree with most of Buchanan's views (I don't like
his isolationism & anti-Semitism) but he in definitely
correct in his assessment re: the EUROS and Islam.
Actually, there's nothing profound about it -- elementary
arithmetical extrapolation. We're only just beginning to
realize we're facing a similar problem here. Right now
it's not as severe as what the EUROS face, but if we
don't anticipate the inevitable result of present trends,
we'll pay the price.
When Pat explained his concept of Erurabia, he used just simple arithmatic and the number of children each race and religion were having.
As a matter of fact he said even hear the end of Western Civillization "IS" happining.
Thanks for replying about a fact that is SO disturbing and SO FEW seem to care.
Frannie
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