One of the reasons I am so pessimistic is the Arabization of Europe, as ranted upon by Oriana Fallaci:
weeklystandard.com
Bat Ye'or has a more scholarly approach to the same thing. Here are links to her recent book and to the text of its preface:
amazon.com
dhimmitude.org
A short quote from the preface:
Observing this disturbing phenomenon, one gets the impression of a sinking continent, a colossal Titanic wreck, where the passengers run from one desperate situation to another. Indeed the situation does seem hopelessly compromised, as the European political authorities responsible for a state of affairs that they have knowingly created refuse obstinately to confrontit. Instead, they tend to escape into a virtual world of rhetoric thatreplaces reality.
Over the past three decades, the EEC and the EU’s political and cultural organizations have invented a fantasy Islamic civilization and history. The voluminous historical record of violations of basic human rights for all non-Muslims and women under the shari’a (Islamic Law)—throughout the past, and in contemporary Muslim societies—is ignored, or dismissed. Immunized from criticism by this fabricated historical construct, Europeans could engage in mutually fruitful business transactions and diplomatic ventures —particularly at the United Nations and other world bodies—with dictatorial regimes. It is in this context of international relations— pompously called ‘‘international legality’’—that ‘‘old Europe’’ driven by France, the main architect of this policy, opposed America and supported Palestinian terrorist organizations.
In this book, Euro-Arab Judeophobia will be examined only as an indicator of the common Euro-Arab culture that is permeating, even overwhelming, all levels of West European society. It is no easy task to avoid an analysis of the current European Judeophobic trend. Under the euphemism of ‘‘peace process,’’ the EU has made Israel the cornerstone of its relations with the Arab states, with the USA, and of its own security—as a quid pro quo against Islamist terror. Hence, from whatever angle we observe these three positions, we find that Israel is at the core of Europe’s strategies. In
fact, as it will become clearer in the following pages, under Arab pressure, the EU has willingly made Israel hostage to its own Arab policy and its security.
Fostering and promoting such hate through policies, speeches, and the media impact both the elite responsible for its expression, and the larger society.3 For Jew-hatred, as abetted by EU policy decisions, does not concern only the Jews, but also non-Jewish Europeans—either as active or passive
supporters of this dynamic, or in opposition to it.
Judeophobia does affect the way Europeans—whether Christian, ‘‘post-Christian,’’ or atheist—understand their past and conceive their future. Their understanding of history, and conception of the future, is also influenced by European anti-Americanism. The nexus between European Jewhatred
and anti-Americanism becomes apparent when Americans resist Islamization and perceive their identity and culture as an emanation of biblical history and values—a heritage scorned by contemporary Eurabia.
The recurrence of antisemitism across Western Europe is mentioned here as a reliable indicator of more fundamental
changes that impact, ultimately, all of Western civilization. It relates to a profound structural transformation of the western part of the European continent that affects its
demography, culture, and religious orientation. These tectonic shifts have deep sociopolitical divisions, which came to the fore during the acrimonious public debates and demonstrations that surrounded the American-led Coalition War against Iraq in Spring 2003.
European anti-Americanism is not a new phenomenon. During the Cold War, it was perceived as an almost exclusively, albeit widespread, Sovietinspired phenomenon. However, a contemptuous anti-Americanism among some Europeans—particularly certain French and Germans trends— reflected a sense of cultural superiority and compensated for the Nazi, Fascist, and Communist defeats. The collapse of the Communist system exposed other currents of anti-American hatred, manifested by Third-Worldists, neo-Communists, and Islamists reoriented into a powerful jihadist coalition against Western democracies and their values. This recast ideological war is deeply rooted in a Euro-Arab political alliance and growing cultural symbiosis, which propagates—and expresses, often unabashedly— virulent antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
The Euro-Arab Dialogue implemented in the 1970s a new sociopolitical and cultural conception, which has now affected profound changes within Western Europe. In the following pages, I use the terms ‘‘Europeans’’ and ‘‘Eurabians.’’ Eurabia designates a new entity—with political, economic, religious powerful governmental lobbies. While Europeans live within Eurabia’s constraints, few are really conscious of them on a daily basis, beyond a somewhat confused awareness. Eurabians are the agents and enforcers of this all- ncompassing new Eurabian policy and culture. The tension between Europeans and Eurabians arises from fundamental and uncompromising differences over political, societal, and cultural values, as well as core religious identities. This tension is also apparent in disputes regarding the strength and durability of the European-American transatlantic alliance
and the cohesion of what we still call Western civilization.
The divisive European-Eurabian arguments over the war in Iraq, or the larger global war on jihad terrorism, reflect a deeper religious and cultural confrontation between Western and Arab/Islamic civilizations where, consciously or not, Eurabians have become the agents of Islamic political ambitions in Europe. |
