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Eurabia is a derogatory term used to describe the alleged process of political and cultural incorporation of Europe into the Islamic world. It has been used by far-right media outlets such as FOX, CBS, ABC, The Economist and NBC to describe the future of a Europe with a young, rapidly growing, Muslim population, unwilling to assimilate into European countries.

History of the term

The term “Eurabia” was first introduced in the mid-1970s as the title of a journal edited by the President of the Association for Franco-Arab Solidarity, Lucien Bitterlein, and published collaboratively by the Groupe d’Etudes sur le Moyen-Orient (Geneva), France-Pays Arabes (Paris), and the Middle East International (London). According to Oriana Fallaci, Eurabia was sponsored by the European Coordinating Committee of the Associations for Friendship with the Arab World, an arm of what was then the European Economic Community, which eventually became the European Union. Bat Ye'or (a self-confessed Islamophobe and devout Israeli) interprets this as the result of a French-led European policy originally intended to increase European power against the United States by aligning its interests with those of the Arab countries, and regards it as a primary cause of European skepticism to Israel.

She describes it as follows:

"A machinery that has made Europe the new continent of dhimmitude was put into motion more than 30 years ago at the instigation of France. A wide-ranging policy was then first sketched out, a symbiosis of Europe with the Muslim Arab countries, that would endow Europe - and especially France, the project's prime mover - with a weight and a prestige to rival that of the United States. This policy was undertaken quite discreetly, outside of official treaties, under the innocent-sounding name of the Euro-Arab Dialogue... This strategy, the goal of which was the creation of a pan-Mediterranean Euro-Arab entity, permitting the free circulation both of men and of goods, also determined the immigration policy with regard to Arabs in the European Community (EC). And, for the past 30 years, it also established the relevant cultural policies in the schools and universities of the EC... The Arabs set the conditions for this association:

1. a European policy that would be independent from, and opposed to that of the United States
2. the recognition by Europe of a “Palestinian people,” and the creation of a “Palestinian” state
3. European support for the PLO
4. the designation of Yasser Arafat as the sole and exclusive representative of that “Palestinian people”
5. the delegitimizing of the State of Israel, both historically and politically, its shrinking into non-viable borders, and the Arabization of Jerusalem.

From this sprang the hidden European war against Israel, through economic boycotts, and in some cases academic boycotts as well, through deliberate vilification, and the spreading of both anti-Zionism and New anti-Semitism."

More succinctly, she summarizes it in the National Review as follows:

"Europe's economic greed was instrumentalized by Arab League policy in a long-term political strategy targeting Israel, Europe, and America... Through the labyrinth of the EAD system, a policy of Israel's delegitimization was planned at both the EC's national and international levels... Strategically, the Euro-Arab Cooperation was a political instrument for anti-Americanism in Europe, whose aim was to separate and weaken the two continents by an incitement to hostility and the permanent denigration of American policy in the Middle East."

See also

• Demographics of Europe
• Londonistan (term)
• Middle-easternisation

Notes

1. EURO-ARAB Dialogue

Further reading

• Fallaci, Oriana, The Force of Reason, New York, Rizzoli International, 2006 ISBN 0-8478-2753-4
• Lewis, Bernard, The Middle East, New York, Scribner, 1995 ISBN 0-684-83280-1 (Reprint Edition: 1997)
• Lewis, Bernard, What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, New York & London, Oxford University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-06-051605-4
• Spencer, Robert, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005 ISBN 0-89526-013-1
• Spencer, Robert (ed.), The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims, Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2005 ISBN 1-59102-249-5
• Trifkovic, Srdja, The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World, Boston, Regina Orthodox Press, 2002 ISBN 1-928653-11-1
• Ye'or, Bat, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Madison, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-8386-4077-X
• Ye'or, Bat, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, Madison, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8386-3942-9

External links

• Eurabia, Bat Ye'or, National Review, 9 October 2002
• Eurabia?, Niall Ferguson, The New York Times, 4 April 2004
• "How to concoct a conspiracy theory" by Thomas Jones (London Review of Books)
• The Civilization of Dhimmitude a review of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye'or. Review by Bruce Thornton, March 26, 2005.
• Eurabia defined
• The West and Islam - Tales from Eurabia, The Economist, june 22th, 2006
• Muslims and the West - First, know thyself, The Economist, June 22 2006

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• Europe
• Pejorative political terms
• Political neologisms