WILL EUROPE BECOME ISLAMIC?

The rapid Islamization of Europe
How quickly is Europe being Islamized? So quickly that even historian Bernard Lewis, who has continued throughout his honor-laden career to be strangely disingenuous about certain realities of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, told the German newspaper Die Welt forthrightly that "Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century." Or maybe sooner. The effects of the machinations that Bat Ye'or details .... are playing out on Europe's streets, as outlined by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in this piece from WorldNetDaily. An excerpt:

What Europe has long sown it is now reaping. Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized oppression of non-Muslims in Muslim societies, chronicles in her forthcoming book "Eurabia" how it has come to this. Europe, she explains, began 30 years ago to travel down a path of appeasement, accommodation and cultural abdication before Islam in pursuit of short-sighted political and economic benefits. She observes that today, "Europe has evolved from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment/secular elements, to a 'civilization of dhimmitude,' i.e., Eurabia: a secular-Muslim transitional society with its traditional Judeo-Christian mores rapidly disappearing."

SEE ALSO: Eurabia
Interview of Bat Ye'or, the world's foremost authority on dhimmitude. Her latest study is Islam and Dhimmitude. Where Civilizations Collide. Her forthcoming book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, will be published in January 2005.Be sure to read this interview. Here is an excerpt:

It is essentially a political project for a total demographic and cultural symbiosis between Europe and the Arab world, where Israel will eventually dissolve. America would be isolated and challenged by an emerging Euro-Arab continent that is linked to the whole Muslim world and invested with tremendous political and economic power in international affairs. [...]France and the rest of Western Europe cannot change their policy anymore. Their future is Eurabia. Period.