Re: Lewis views Christendom and Islam as civilizations that have been in perpetual collision ever since the advent of Islam in the 7th century. In a seminal essay The Roots of Muslim Rage (1990), he saw the struggle between the West and Islam gathering strength. It was in that essay that he coined the phrase "clash of civilizations", which received prominence in the eponymous book by Samuel P. Huntington.[8]
A better authority on Islam is Pr Michael A. Sells:
haverford.edu
The New Crusades
Constructing the Muslim Enemy
Edited by Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells
columbia.edu
Let me suggest you to read the chapter by John Trumpbour, a good debunking of Bernard Lewis and his ilk:
The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the Remaking of the Post-Cold War World Order, by John Trumpbour
Re: Lewis advocates closer Western ties with Israel and Turkey,...
Quite a hypocritical posture by avowed Zionist Bernard Lewis... I have already debunked the silly notion that the US and Israel were sincerely hoping for Turkey to join the EU as a full-fledged member:
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Re: """In 2004 Lewis told the German newspaper Die Welt that "Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century."""
Well, I don't subscribe to that Judeofascist scaremongering about Europe morphing into Eurabia(*)... I'm afraid you somehow misconstrued my message #18264 when I elaborated on how Islam is being instrumentalized as a political platform. Indeed, there's currently no serious attempt by Europe's Muslim minorities to set up Islamic parties or even Islamic/Muslim lobbies --even though it would make sense in countries that still boast "Christian-Democrat" parties. For instance, Germany's CDU or Belgium's CD&V....
So, when I say that Muslim minorities are politicizing Islam, I mean that they're merely turning it into a means of emancipation. Islam, from the viewpoint of Europe's Muslims is first and foremost a self-centered endeavor whereby disenfranchised Muslims seek to assert themselves.... It's basically a way for them to call for respect and dignity. They want decent mosques, not makeshift venues in derelict neighborhoods. They want Muslim women allowed to wear headscarves. They want their children entitled to attend Muslim schools and curricula --just like Jewish kids are. But they don't seek to enforce all of the above on the rest of society! Theirs is not a jihad to impose sharia laws across Europe. They merely want public authorities to facilitate their practice of Islam --not its proselytizing.
Somehow, Europe's Muslim minorities face a challenge similar to that of America's Blacks: the Civil Rights crisis in 1960s America was not about "converting" white Americans to "blackness", it was about redressing the inequities and cruelties of Jim Crow.... Rev M.L. King and Malcom X never sought to "blacken" America, they never sought to "Africanize" the US --they just wanted their fair share of the American Dream. Likewise, today's Muslims don't seek to Islamicize Europe, they don't dream of converting Europe into Eurabia, they want secular Europe to acknowledge them as full-fledged citizens.
Of course, racist, supremacist whites don't see it that way... Whether American whites or European whites, Judeofascists claim that the mere attempt by nonwhite minorities --African Americans or European Muslims-- to call for equality, for equal rights with whites, is but the first step to sedition... Racist Americans claim that the true agenda of black activists is to mongrelize white America and to spoil its white, Christian heritage. Similarly, Judeofascist scaremongers warn about the rampant Islamification of Europe whereas the true menace is for Europe to be Israelized by Judeofascists.
(*) You are now entering Eurabia
By Matt Carr
Abstract: In recent years, an increasingly influential intellectual consensus on both sides of the Atlantic has presented Europe as a doomed and decadent continent that is being transformed into an Islamic colony called ‘Eurabia’. The term was originally coined by the British-Swiss historian Bat Ye’or to describe what she identified as a secret project between European politicians and the Arab world for the ‘Islamicisation’ of Europe. What began as an outlandish conspiracy theory has become a dangerous Islamophobic fantasy that has moved ever closer towards mainstream respectability, as conservative historiansand newspaper columnists, right-wing Zionists and European [Judeo]fascists find common cause in the threat to ‘Judeo-Christian’ civilisation from Muslim immigrants with supposedly incompatible cultural values.
gess.wordpress.com
Here's the full PDF text:
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