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September 24, 2006

Book Review: Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis

Following the Spanish re-conquest of Granada in 1492, and later the rebirth of Greece in the 19th century, Islam was relegated to the outskirts of Europe. Then in the 1970's, as if from out of nothing, Islamic communities sprung up across the continent. How did this happened?

Europe's politicians planned it and executed it, answers Bat Ye'or in her Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. Following the 1973 oil embargo, politicians of almost all major Western European parties decided to pursue a policy of "dialogue" with its "southern neighbors", and as a result allowed the settlement of large muslim populations in Europe's territory, and refused to pursue a policy of integration (however hopeless the attempt might have been). Indeed, they pursued a policy that explicitly recognized "the cultural differences" between the unassimilated immigrants and the unsuspecting natives.

The conspiracy-minded might think Europe has been the victim of a cruel conspiracy, but they would be tragically mistaken: truth be told, the policies were pursued openly and met almost no resistance. The Euro-Arab dialogue (who could possible be against dialogue), an organization which answered to no national body, decided it would be so, and politicians of all stripes sheepishly followed.

The idea of Eurabia, Bat Ye'or argues, was dreamt up in French intellectual circles seeking to create a third alternative to the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States. The rising superpower would come out of a political and economic union between a unified Europe and its southern neighbors; Europe would provide technical know-how, leadership (don't laugh), while "the southern neighbors" would provide manpower, raw materials, and virgin markets. Ordinary Europeans, naturally, were not consulted on the matter, and as often happens, the intellectuals got their wish.

A simple look at the numbers should have told our wise planners that Eurabia would eventually become a whole lot Arabia, and very little Euro. But if they did look at the numbers, it did not deter them. (It is very telling that these same utopian planners tend to believe, or at least publicly state, that birth rates oscillate wildly, with no discernable cause.) As usual, there are no facts strong enough to deter utopian dreamers.

Bat Ye'or chronicles the birth and development of Eurabia with uncanny skill. (Did you know, for example, that the myth of al-Andalus, the medieval muslim light-unto-the-European-nations is of recent origin and a fabrication of these same intellectuals?) Her work provides the powerful ammunition of truth to those of us who wish to reverse the EuroArabian process, those of us who will not submit. And for that, we shall always be grateful to Bat Ye'or.

Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 24, 2006 8:36 AM

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