Europe Islamified
I just finished reading Bat Ye’or’s magnificent book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. Her book explains in great detail how the European elites opened up their borders to allow a huge immigrant population of Muslims to satisfy their own global intentions. These European Elites (e.g., prime ministers and ambassadors) decided to roll the dice. They gambled that if could convince the Arab leaders to exchange European investment and infrastructure capablilities for oil and a steady pool of immigrants, the Europeans would create a Euro-Arab hegemon that would rival the United States. Unfortunately, their gamble didn’t pay off. Rather, they’ve played right into the Arabs hands and have created a Eurabia where the Arabs–not the Europeans–are the power brokers.
One of the great nuggets within Eurabia is the vocabulary of Islamic conquest (e.g., dhimmitude, and jihad, dar al-harb) that is learned. With that understanding, it’s easier to see how Osama bin Laden and his minnions carved out their radicalism.
The Islamification of Europe is not only a threat to indigenous Europeans but threatens to pull away Britain to an anti-American posture and quell the Eastern Europeans from friendly and supportive relations with the United States. Ye’or’s book should be required State Department reading. I highly recommend it.