The term “Eurabia” was not invented by Bat Ye’or, it was the title of a collaborative journal promoting closer relations between Europe and the Arab world. Reeling from fear of terrorism and the oil crisis, and under the sway of France, which tried to build a block against the US, the European Economic Comunity allowed the Arab League to dictate terms and set up a process called the Euro-Arab Dialogue. In essence, this process committed Europe to ultimately establishing a free-market, an open borders “Mediterrenean community” and cultural accommodations on one hand and a hostile policy towards Israel and the US barely distinguishable from that of the Arab League. The staggering rate of Muslim immigration, Europe’s political postures towards the US and Israel, and occasional candid proclamations by Europe’s political and cultural elites provide the clearest evidence of this process. And let’s not forget the open proclamations by the Islamists and their successful demands for communal autonomy, a separate legal system and special rights, priviledges and protections. Bat Ye’or is not alone in her thesis that through fear and avarice, Europe has essentially surrendered to Islam’s world-wide resurgence without a shot being fired.

I can’t guess your age, but my bet is that you will be able to watch the process get uglier and uglier as time goes on. I can’t see a happy outcome, neither for the ever-weakening Europeans, nor for its rapidly growing, impoverished and increasingly radicalized and violent Muslim minorities. Personally, I’m glad to have made my home in North America having sadly written-off Europe long ago, and only hope that Europe’s unfortunate fate will stir the remaining liberal democracies in preventing a similar fate before it’s too late.

There is no such thing as Eurabia except in the mind of conspiracy theorists and Europeans-haters, and Bat Ye’or’s thesis is obviously a conspiracy theory.

In her words: “Eurabia represents 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. A working body composed of committees and always presided jointly by a European and an Arab delegate planned the agendas, and organized and monitored the application of the decisions.

Eurabia is the future of Europe. Its driving force, the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation, was created in Paris in 1974. It now has over six hundred members — from all major European political parties — active in their own national parliaments, as well as in the European parliament. The creation of this body and its policy follow the 23 resolutions of the “Second International Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples”, held in Cairo in January 1969. Its resolution 15 formulates the Euro-Arab policy and its all-embracing development over thirty years in European domestic and foreign policy.”

For a an excellent background covering the history, methodology and implications of this geo-political reality refer http://www.dhimmitude.org/archive/by_eurabia_122002_eng.doc

Came to your site via jpost. It was a great article. Insightful and worrying. Excellent blog too.

I’m curious as to why this telegraph article was published now. I assumed the study referred to was a recent one, but it seems to be 2 years old.(and I can’t find it online)

It appears that the UK has granted a sort of veto to Muslims citizens when it comes to foreign policy. Which is quite extraordinary when you think about it. (Gert Wilders, Israel policy , cartoon stance)

I don’t think this is being analyzed at all.

I understand that every group will have a stance on certain issues, which they’ll want to put forward.
But in terms of British Muslims , the government seems to have created a new equation whereby terrorism against Britain isn’t completely illegitimate. Rather it is illegitimate only if specific political stances are taken. I think that this is very dangerous.

To what extent would this continue under Tory rule? Would the percentage of Muslims in Britain change the extent to which this would happen?

Keep up the good work,
David.