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Eurabia is a political neologism which refers to an alleged arabisation and islamisation of Europe. It is frequently used together with claims that European leaders are apathetic or sympathetic to extremist Islamic influences. Some authors describe Eurabia as an Islamophobic conspiracy theory, and it secondly refers to demographic scenarios. Both the theories and scenarios have failed to be taken seriously by academics and policy makers.

Origin of the concept

Eurabia was the title of a newsletter published by the Comité européen de coordination des associations d'amitié avec le monde Arabe. According to Bat Ye'or, who has been perhaps the most influential Eurabia theorist in recent years, it was published collaboratively with France-Pays Arabes (journal of the Association de solidarité franco-arabe or ASFA), Middle East International (London), and the Groupe d'Etudes sur le Moyen-Orient (Geneva).

After the September 11 attacks Muslims and the Arab world emerged as a perceived threat. Muslim minority populations and Muslim immigration gained new political significance. Scholar José Pedro Zúquete notes that

the threat that the Crescent will rise over the continent and the spectre of a Muslim Europe have become basic ideological features and themes of the European extreme right

Eurabia had then re-entered into the vocabulary through Bat Ye’Or’s work, most notably the book published in 2005, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis,, although she first used the term in 2002. Subsequently, the coining of the term has been attributed to her. In Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye'or claims that Eurabia is the result of the French-led European policy originally intended to increase European power against the United States by aligning its interests with those of the Arab countries. During the 1973 oil crisis, the European Economic Community (predecessor of the European Union), had entered into the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) with the Arab League. Ye’or notes it as a primary cause of alleged European hostility to Israel, referring to joint Euro-Arab foreign policies that she characterizes as anti-American and anti-Zionist. Her definition of Eurabia is:

Eurabia is a geo-political reality envisaged in 1973 through a system of informal alliances between, on the one hand, the nine countries of the European Community (EC) which, enlarged, became the European Union (EU) in 1992 and on the other hand, the Mediterranean Arab countries. The alliances and agreements were elaborated at the top political level of each EC country with the representative of the European Commission, and their Arab homologues with the Arab League's delegate. This system was synchronised under the roof of an association called the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) created in July 1974 in Paris.

Ye’or established the close connection of the Eurabia conspiracy and the term "dhimmitude", denoting alleged “western subjection to Islam”.

Impact

Academic

Academics at first showed little interest in the Eurabia theories due to their lack of factual basis. The theme was treated in studies of rightist extremism and Middle East Politics. This changed after the 2011 Norway attacks, which resulted in the publication of several works specifically treating the Eurabia conspiracy theories. However, member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Janne Haaland Matlary has discouraged such analyses, arguing that “it is poor use of time to analyse something so primitive”. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, a project under the Pew Research Center released a comprehensive report in January 2011, which projected a 2 percentage point growth of the European Muslim population in the period 2010-2030, from 6% to 8% of the total European populace.

European politics

The theories have failed to impact most policy makers and academics. They have, however become a basic theme in the European extremist right. Through political competition with far-right parties with parliamentary representation the main anti-islamic theme has also penetrated into mainstream European politics, for instance in the case of Geert Wilders:

This government is enthusiastically co-operating with the Islamization of the Netherlands. In all of Europe the elite opens the floodgates wide. In only a little while, one in five people in the European Union will be Muslim. Good news for this multiculti-government that views bowing to the horrors of Allah as its most important task. Good news for the CDA : C-D-A, in the meanwhile stands for Christians Serve Allah.

This has led to the adaption of political positions that were previously considered extreme, but has also led to significant alterations in the asserted positions of the far right, notably when it comes to the rights of women and homosexuals.

2011 Norway attacks

2083: A European Declaration of Independence, the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, includes a lengthy discussion of and support for the "Eurabia" theory. It also contains several articles on the Eurabia theme by Bat Ye’Or and Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (Fjordman). As a result, the theory received widespread mainstream media attention following the attacks.

U.S. politics

In the United States, the theories have found strong proponents in the counterjihad movement, among them the president of Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer and right-wing political commentator Daniel Pipes,. Eurabia theories have also been espoused by less typical conservatives, e.g. Bruce Bawer. In his 2011-2012 run for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum warned that Europe was “creating an opportunity for the creation of Eurabia”, and that the continent was “losing, because they are not having children.”

Eurabia Literature

Main works

Bat Ye’Or’s ‘’Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis’’ was the first print publication in the Eurabia genre. Subsequent titles include Melanie Phillips’ ‘’Londonistan’’,, Walter Laqeur’s ‘’The Last Days of Europe’’,, Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen’s ‘’Defeating Eurabia’’, Oriana Fallaci’s ‘’The Force of Reason’’, and Bruce Bawer’s ‘’While Europe Slept’’.. The term is often used by the writers (Fallaci), (Steyn) and several web sites, many of them affiliated with the counterjihad movement.

Laqueur has since nuanced his position and written that "the fears that Europe risks becoming a Muslim-dominated Eurabia, adopting Sharia, are a vast distortion of the views of serious students of Europe's present state and future prospects". He notes that Muslim immigrants to Europe come from many different countries, the majority non-Arab, and that they have "common interests... but also great differences, even in their attitudes to religion".

Critical comment

The Economist, acknowledging that integration of immigrants was a difficult process, nevertheless rejected the concept of Eurabia as "scaremongering". Simon Kuper in Financial Times described Ye'or's book as "little-read but influential", and akin to "Protocols of the Elders of Zion in reverse", adding that "though ludicrous, Eurabia became the spiritual mother of a genre". In another article, Kuper wrote that most academics who have analysed the demographics dismiss the predictions that the EU will have Muslim majorities.

According to Marján and Sapir, the very idea of "Eurabia" is "based on an extremist conspiracy theory, according to which Europe and the Arab states would join forces to make life impossible for Israel and Islamize the old continent."

Writing in Race & Class in 2006, author and freelance journalist Matt Carr argued that Eurabia had moved from "an outlandish conspiracy theory" to a more mainstream and "dangerous Islamophobic fantasy". He observed that Ye'or's "book ha been well received, not only by established heralds of the Islamic threat, such as Melanie Phillips, Daniel Pipes and Oriana Fallaci, but by respected historians such as Niall Ferguson and Churchill’s biographer Martin Gilbert, who, whatever their political views, might at least be expected to recognise the absence of historical discipline or methodology when they see it." Carr proposed that the idea of Eurabia was a "paranoid" but "politically convenient" fantasy, and that its "popularity... in this circle" served "to legitimise the broader neocon social and economic agenda".

Justin Vaisse, co-author of Integrating Islam Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France, seeks to discredit what he calls, "four myths of the alarmist school," using Muslims in France as an example. Specifically he wrote that the Muslim population growth rate was lower than that predicted by Eurabia, partly because the fertility rate of immigrants declines with integration. He further points out that Muslims are not a monolithic or cohesive group, and that many Muslims do seek to integrate politically and socially. Finally, he wrote that despite their numbers, Muslims have had little influence on French foreign policy.

David Aaronovitch writes that the proponents of Eurabia confuse Islamists with mainstream Muslims. He acknowledges that the threat of "jihadist terror" may be real, but that there was no threat of Eurabia. Aaronovitch concludes that those of study conspiracy theories will recognize Eurabia to be a theory that combines the Sad Dupes thesis to the Enemy Within idea.

The Eurabia theory has been compared by British columnist Johann Hari to historically antisemitic writing. He calls the two "startlingly similar" and says that "there are intellectuals on the British right who are propagating a conspiracy theory about Muslims that teeters very close to being a 21st century Protocols of the Elders of Mecca."

In his book Wars of Blood and Faith, US military analyst Ralph Peters states that far from being about to take over Europe through demographic change, "Europe's Muslims are living on borrowed time" and that in the event of a major terrorist attack in Europe, thanks to the "ineradicable viciousness" of Europeans and what he perceives as a historical tendency to over-react to real or perceived threats, European Muslims "will be lucky if they're only deported."

Eric Kaufmann, author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2011), argues that a Muslim majority is extremely unlikely in Europe in the near or long-term. He states "Even if higher Muslim fertility rates do not persist, Islam will make a significant imprint on European life—so saner Eurabian ideas should be publicly discussed. Nonetheless, the overwhelming weight of demographic evidence points towards a decline in Muslim fertility and a more plural Europe."

Notes

1. Examples of proponent's use:
   • Geert Wilders (September 16, 2009). "Speech in the Dutch parliament". Geert Wilders' blog. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • Bruce Thornton (March 26, 2005). "The Civilization of Dhimmitude - A review of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye'or". Victor Davis Hanson on the web. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • Bat Ye'Or (July 27, 2004). "How Europe Became Eurabia". FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • David Pryce-Jones (2008). Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews. New York: Encounter books. ISBN 978-1-594032-20-2. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • Theodore Dalrymple (2011). The New Vichy Syndrome. Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism. New York: Encounter books. ISBN 978-1-59403-372-8. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   Examples of non-proponents' description:
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   • David Aaronovitch (September 15, 2005). "It's the latest disease: sensible people saying ridiculous things about Islam". The Times. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • Johann Hari (Winter 2007). "Islam in the West". Dissent_(magazine). Retrieved June 8, 2012.
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3. See:
   • Fekete, Liz (2012). "The Muslim conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre". Race & Class. 53 (3): 30-47. doi:10.1177/0306396811425984.
   • Carland, Susan (2011). "Islamophobia, fear of loss of freedom, and the Muslim woman". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 22 (4): 469-473. doi:10.1080/09596410.2011.606192.
   • David Lagerlöf; Jonathan Leman; Alexander Bengtsson (2011). The Anti-Muslim Environment - The ideas, the Profiles and the Concept (PDF). Stockholm: Expo Research. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • Shooman, Yasemin (2010). "The concept of the Muslim enemy in the public discourse". In Jocelyne Cesari (ed.). Muslims in the West after 9/11: religion, politics, and law. Routledge. pp. 198–228. ISBN 0-415-77654-6. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
   • Johann Hari (Winter 2007). "Islam in the West". Dissent_(magazine). Retrieved June 8, 2012.
   • Fekete, Liz (2006). "Enlightened fundamentalism? Immigration, feminism and the Right". Race & Class. 48 (1): 1-22. doi:10.1177/0306396806069519.
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4. ^ Simon Kuper (September 9, 2011). "The end of Eurabia". Financial Times. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
5. ^ "Tales from Eurabia". The Economist. June 22, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2008. Integration will be hard work for all concerned. But for the moment at least, the prospect of Eurabia looks like scaremongering.
6. ^ Grim, Brian J.; Karim, Mehtab S.; Cooperman, Alan; Hackett, Conrad; Connor, Phillip; Chaudhry, Sahar; Hidajat, Mira; Hsu, Becky (January 2011). Stencel, Sandra; Rosen, Anne Farris; Yoo, Diana; Miller, Tracy; Ramp, Hilary (eds.). The Future of the Global Muslim Population (Projections for 2010-2030) (pdf). Washington D.C.: Pew Research Center. Retrieved May 12, 2012. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
7. WorldCat.org "Eurabia (item listing)". Worldcat. Retrieved May 11, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
8. ^ Bat Ye'or (December 2002). "Le dialogue Euro-Arabe et la naissance d'Eurabia" (pdf) (in French). Observatoire du monde juif. Retrieved May 11, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help) English translation
9. ^ Zúquete, José Pedro (October 2008). "The European Extreme Right and Islam: New directions?". Journal of Political Ideologies. 13 (3): 321–344. doi:10.1080/13569310802377019. Retrieved April 22, 2012.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
10. Ye’or, Bat (2005). Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. New Jersey, USA: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0838640777.
11. Bat Ye'or (2002-10-09). "Eurabia". National Review.
12. ^ Fekete, Liz (2012). "The Muslim conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre". Race & Class. 53 (3): 30-47. doi:10.1177/0306396811425984.
13. "Euro-Arab dialogue". MEDEA. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
14. Bat Ye'or quoted by Jamie Glazov, Jamie Glazov (September 21, 2004). "Eurabia". Frontpage Magazine. Sherman Oaks, CA: David Horowitz. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
15. "Eurabiske vers" (in Norwegian). Morgenbladet. August 19, 2011. Retrieved April 27, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
16. Roy, Olivier (2008). The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-80043-3.
17. Gardell, Mattias (2011). Islamofobi (in Norwegian). Oslo. ISBN 9788243006683. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
18. "Advarer mot å ta Breivik seriøst" (in Norwegian). Norsk Rikskringkasting. Norsk Telegrambyrå. May 2, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
19. Geert Wilders. "speech in the Dutch parliament, September 16, 2009". Retrieved May 12, 2012.
20. Bhandar, Davina (2010). "Cultural politics: disciplining citizenship". Citizenship Studies. 14 (3): 331–343. doi:10.1080/13621021003731963. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
21. Mepschen, Paul; Duyvendak, Jan Willem; Tonkens, Evelien H. (2010). "Sexual Politics, Orientalism and Multicultural Citizenship in the Netherlands". Sociology. 44 (5): 962–979. doi:10.1177/0038038510375740. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
22. See:
    • Doug Saunders (July 25, 2011). "Norway gunman's manifesto calls for war against Muslims". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 12, 2012. Full text
    • Doug Saunders (July 26, 2011). "'Eurabia' opponents scramble for distance from anti-Muslim murderer". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 12, 2012. Full text
    • Fredrik Mandal; Kenneth Nodeland (July 24, 2011). "Terroristen ville bruke atomvåpen" (in Norwegian). Bergens Tidende. Retrieved May 12, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
    • Archer, Toby (July 25, 2011). "Breivik's Swamp". Foregin Policy. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • "Massedrapsmannen kopierte "Unabomberen" ord for ord" (in Norwegian). Norsk Rikskringkasting. July 24, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
    • Timothy Rutten (July 27, 2011). "The Norway attacks illustrate once again the danger posed by hate-laced propaganda". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Scott Shane (July 24, 2011). "Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S." The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Andrew Brown (July 24, 2011). "Anders Breivik is not Christian but anti-Islam". The Guardian. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Seumas Milne (July 28, 2011). "In his rage against Muslims, Norway's killer was no loner". The Guardian. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Abel Mestre; Caroline Monnot (July 26, 2011). "L'inspiration des extrémistes post-11-Septembre" (in French). Le Monde. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
    • Jostein Gaarder; Thomas Hylland Eriksen (July 28, 2011). "A Blogosphere of Bigots". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Malise Ruthven (August 9, 2011). "The New European Far-Right". The New York Review of Books.
23. "Psykiater om Breivik: – Så komplisert at vi først i historiens lys kan få svar" (in Norwegian). Tv2.no. July 28, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |transtitle= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
24. see for instance:
    • Spencer, Robert, ed. (2005). The Myth of Islamic Tolerance:How Islamic Law treats Non-Muslims. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
    • Robert Spencer (October 21, 2007). "Photos from Eurabia". jihadwatch.org. Robert Spencer. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Robert Spencer (May 19, 2009). "Eurabia's capital: Rotterdam". jihadwatch.org. Robert Spencer. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Robert Spencer (July 12, 2009). "Newsweek wants you to relax and forget about the jihad against Europe". jihadwatch.org. Robert Spencer. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Robert Spencer (December 25, 2009). "Christmas in Eurabia". jihadwatch.org. Robert Spencer. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
25. see for instance:
    • Daniel Pipes (October 10, 2004). "Europeans fleeing Eurabia". danielpipes.org. Retrieved May 12, 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
    • Daniel Pipes (March 1, 2007). "Eurabian Nights". The National Interest. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
    • Daniel Pipes (April 15, 2008). "Europe or Eurabia?". The Australian. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
26. Bawer, Bruce (Winter 2006). "Crisis in Europe". The Hudson Review Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter 2006). The Hudson Review.
27. Max Blumenthal (January 5, 2012). "Santorum warns of 'Eurabia,' issues call to 'evangelize and eradicate' Muslims". Al-Akhbar English. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
28. ^ Simon Kuper (October 11, 2007). "The Crescent and the Cross". Financial Times. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
29. Melanie Phillips (2006). Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within. London: Encounter. ISBN 9781594031441.
30. Walter Laqeur (2007). The Last Days of Europe. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 9780312368708.
31. Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (2008). Defeating Eurabia. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781409247159. (available online)
32. Oriana Fallaci (2004). La forza della ragione (in Italian). Milano: Rizzoli. ISBN 9788817002967. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
33. Bruce Bawer (2007). While Europe Slept. New York: Anchor/Random House. ISBN 978-0767920056.
34. Tunku Varadarajan (June 23, 2005). "Prophet of Decline". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved none. Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
35. Dopo Londra (September 15, 2006). "Il nemico che trattiamo da amico". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved May 13, 2012. Fallaci saysTemplate:It "Sono quattr' anni che parlo di nazismo islamico, di guerra all' Occidente, di culto della morte, di suicidio dell' Europa. Un' Europa che non è più Europa ma Eurabia e che con la sua mollezza, la sua inerzia, la sua cecità, il suo asservimento al nemico si sta scavando la propria tomba." ("Since four years I am talking about the Islamic Nazism, the war to the West, the cult of death, the suicide of Europe. A Europe that is no longer Europe but Eurabia, which with its softness, its inertia, its blindness, its servitude to the enemy is digging its own grave.")
36. Mark Steyn (2006). America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-0847827534.
37. Mark Steyn (January 2, 2006). "It's the Demography, stupid". The New Criterion. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
38. Mark Steyn (October 10, 2006). "The future belongs to Islam". Macleans.ca. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
39. including Gates of Vienna, Paul Belien's Brussels Journal, Free Republic, Front Page Magazine, Richard Landes's Eurabia article, Fjordman's The Eurabia Code article and Defeating Eurabia compilation (this web page list several web resources)
40. Walter Laqueur (2009). Best of Times, Worst of Times. University Press of New England. p. 211.
41. Simon Kuper (August 19, 2007). "Head count belies vision of 'Eurabia'". Financial Times. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
42. Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1177/0306396806066636, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1177/0306396806066636 instead.
43. See also Randy McDonald, France, its Muslims, and the Future, 2004-04-13, Doug Saunders, "The 'Eurabia' myth deserves a debunking", The Globe and Mail, 2008-09-20, Fewer differences between foreign born and Swedish born childbearing women, Statistics Sweden, 2008-11-03, Mary Mederios Kent, Do Muslims have more children than other women in western Europe?, Population Reference Bureau, prb.org, February 2008; for fertility of Muslims outside Europe, see the sentence "The dramatic decline in Iran's fertility provides a recent example of how strict Islamic practices can coexist with widespread use of family planning.", and (the articles) Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi and Mary Mederios Kent, Fertility Declining in the Middle East and North Africa, prb.org, April 2008, especially the figure 2, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran, especially the figure 1;
44. See also "Merely speaking of a 'Muslim community in France' can be misleading and inaccurate: like every immigrant population, Muslims in France exhibit strong cleavages based on the country of their origin, their social background, political orientation and ideology, and the branch or sect of Islam that they practice (when they do)." in Justin Vaisse, Unrest in France, November 2005, 2006-01-12
45. See also Justin Vaïsse, La France et les musulmans: une politique étrangère sous influence?, April 2007 Template:Fr
46. David Aaronovitch (2005-11-15). "It's the latest disease: sensible people saying ridiculous things about Islam". London: The Times. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
47. Hari, Johann. "Amid all this panic, we must remember one simple fact - Muslims are not all the same", The Independent, 21 August 2006; see also "It is not an exaggeration to see in these wild conspiracy theories a mutation of Europe’s old, toxic anti-Semitism. What are Fallaci and Ye’or offering but the Protocols of the Elders of Muhammad?" in Johann Hari, "Islam in the West", Dissent magazine, winter 2007;
48. Peters, Ralph (2007). Wars of blood and faith: the conflicts that will shape the twenty-first century. Stackpole Books. pp. 333–334. ISBN 978-0-8117-0274-4.
49. Kaufmann, Eric (20 March 2010). "Europe's Muslim Future", Prospect, Issue 169.

Further reading

See also

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• Greater Middle East
• Islamophobia
• Stop Islamisation of Europe
• Counterjihad
• Finlandization
• Political demography

Books by Bat Ye'or

• Bat Ye'or, L'antisionisme euro-arabe in Nouveaux visages de l'antisémitisme: haine-passion ou haine historique?, 2001, ISBN 978-2-913973-16-9
• Bat Ye'or, Le dialogue Euro-Arabe et la naissance d'Eurabia, Observatoire du monde juif, December 2002
• Bat Ye'or, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Madison, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8386-4077-X
• Bat Ye'or, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, Madison, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8386-3942-9
• Bat Ye'or, Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-61147-445-9

External links

Proponents

• Niall Ferguson, Eurabia?, The New York Times, 2004-04-04
• Bruce Thornton, The Civilization of Dhimmitude, 2005-03-26.
• Christopher Caldwell, Islamic Europe?, The Weekly Standard, 2004-10-04
• Adrian Michaels, Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent, telegraph.co.uk, 2009-08-08
• Giulio Meotti, Welcome to Eurabia, 2011-05-02
• Bat Ye'or, Who conspired?, Dreuz.info, 2012-03-05

Opponents

• Simon Kuper, The Crescent and the Cross, Financial Times, 2007-11-10
• Thomas Jones, Short Cuts: How to concoct a conspiracy theory, London Review of Books, July 2005
• John Lichfield, Our Man In Paris: France will never be a Muslim state, The Independent, 2004-02-03;
• Johann Hari, 'America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It' by Mark Steyn, New Statesman, 2007-03-12;
• Øyvind Strømmen, The Elders of Mecca, 2009-02-22;
• William Underhill, Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong, Newsweek, 2009-07-20;
• Douglas Todd, Do Muslims seek to dominate the West? And could they do it?, Vancouver Sun, 2009-08-15;
• John Esposito and Sheila Lalwani, Debunking the myth of a 'Eurabia', San Francisco Chronicle, 2011-02-07;
• Øyvind Strømmen, So, what’s the deal with Fjordman?, 2011-08-05;
• Adam Keller, Drumont's Jewish disciple, 2008-06-02
• Daniel Luban, The New Anti-Semitism, Tablet Magazine, 2010-08-19
• Matt Carr, Christopher Caldwell dissected, 2009
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• Eurabia
• Islamization
• Euroscepticism
• Islam-related controversies
• Political neologisms
• Islam in Europe
• Demographics of Europe
• Anti-Islam