Posted on 04/29/2005 11:49:00 AM PDT by quidnunc
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
By Bat Ye'or
Fairleigh Dickinson University
322pp., $23.95
How is it that ten percent of France is Muslim, 15% of Denmark is Muslim and close to half of the births in the next generation will be Muslim? Imperious mosques and lawless Muslim neighborhoods dot the landscape of major European cities. And Spain willingly and meekly chose to acknowledge its Islamic past, and that pro-Arab opinion is rampant and anti-Israeli sentiment vitriolic.
European appeasement apparently did not end in Munich in 1938.
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye'or is a definitive work for the early 21st century. Its very title and subtitle brim with insight and controversy: that Europe is merging with Arabism and, with Arabia, constitutes a bellicose and anti-democratic force.
In her earlier books, Bat Ye'or surveyed, documented and exposed the phenomenon of Jewish and Christian dhimmi subjugation under Islam in the lands of the Middle East and beyond. This aspect of Muslim/non-Muslim relations, largely concealed by intent and ignorance, evoked interest and debate.
Now this new work, 270 pages accompanied by eight documentary appendices, extends the examination of dhimmitude into the heart of Europe itself.
Central to this book is a sweeping political conception and moral indictment. The evolving ties between Europe and Muslim North Africa/Arab Middle East, within the nexus of bureaucratic machinations in Brussels and various European capitals, have transformed Europe into an appendix of the Arab-Muslim world.
Europe, manifesting anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and an anti-Israel bias, has succumbed to Arab policy dictates. The former European Commission and now the EU has opened its media, schools and parliaments to singularly Arab views, whereby a Euro-Mediterranean partnership provides the political umbrella for dhimmitude in Europe.
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I don't even want to think about it.
Dhimmitude was a legal status given to non-Muslims living in Islamic lands. Since they were considered inferior to Muslims, dhimmis endured certain legal restrictions, like special taxes, dress codes, no second amendment rights, and other disabilities. In some Muslim countries, it still applies.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmis.
Thanks!
This may be in the cards, but it will be awhile yet. The euro-peons have not yet had to taste the truth on a widespread personal scale.
When they do, the packs of rabid moslem dogs will discover that an EU without the merest shred of American Constitutional protections will become a very dangerous place to be.
That is the one small silver lining to being behind the Iron Curtain. It did spare Poland from the fate of her western neighbors. I hope their joining the EU won't change that.
The five permanent members of the UN security council are nuclear powers: China, England, France, Russia, United States. France has been a nuclear power since 1960.
French nuclear arms:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/france/nuke.htm
Well people tend to exaggerate, and sometimes lie to convince you. For an example, not everyone from Africa are Muslim, but when an author wants to exaggerate, they count all African immigrants as Muslims.
E. Vesselbo, a sociologist in Denmark projected that by 2060, 50% of Denmark's population will be Muslim. His projection assumes accelerated rate of immigration, plus 2nd & 3rd generation Muslims maintaining 1st generation's birth rate.
How realistic is that? If anyone thinks the 2nd and 3rd generation are going to have 4 children/family, they're delusional.
BUT it doesn't take a majority to have major impact on a nation's politics and foreign policy. Look at our Jewish and Cuban lobby.
God,everyone here on FR is so smart. Am I the only one who never heard this word before?
Thanks for the link!
God,everyone here on FR is so smart. Am I the only one who never heard this word before?Collectively, we're pretty smart; billions and billions of neurons and a million years of collective 'history' on-line!
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