For more than 30 years, Bat Ye’or, a refugee from Egypt, has been writing about dhimmis — Christians and Jews living under oppression in Muslim lands. Now, she has a new book, Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate, that looks at Muslims living in lands that once were Christian but today call themselves multicultural. She predicts Europe will not remain multicultural for long. She is convinced that Europe, sooner rather than later, will be dominated by Islamic extremists and transformed into “Eurabia” — a term first used in the mid-1970s by a French publication pressing for common European-Arab policies.
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Immigrants can enrich a nation. But there is a difference between immigrants and colonists. The former are eager to learn the ways of their adopted home, to integrate and perhaps assimilate — which does not require relinquishing their heritage or forgetting their roots. Colonists, by contrast, bring their culture with them and live under their own laws. Their loyalties lie elsewhere.
Ye’or contends that a concerted effort is being made not only to ensure that Muslim immigrants in Europe remain squarely in the second category, but also that they become the means to transform Europe politically, culturally, and religiously. Leading this effort is the Organization of the Islamic Conference, established in 1969, which, a few months ago, no doubt on the advice of a highly compensated public-relations professional, renamed itself the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The OIC represents 56 countries plus the Palestinian Authority. It claims also to represent Muslim immigrants — the “Diaspora” — in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. It is pan-Islamic: It seeks to unify and lead the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims. In a manual first published in 2001, “Strategy of Islamic Cultural Action in the West,” the IOC asserts that “Muslim immigrant communities in Europe are part of the Islamic nation.” It goes on to recommend, Ye’or notes, “a series of steps to prevent the integration and assimilation of Muslims into European culture.”
The IOC, she argues, is nothing less than a “would-be, universal caliphate.” It might look different from the caliphates of the Ottomans, Fatimids, and Abbasids. It might resemble, instead, a thoroughly modern trans-national bureaucracy. But, already, the OIC exercises significant power through the United Nations, and through the European Union, which has been eager to accommodate the OIC while simultaneously endowing the U.N. with increasing authority for global governance. Among the other organizations that Ye’or says are doing the OIC’s bidding are the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and the European Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation (PAEAC).
In the eyes of OIC officials, no problem in the contemporary world is more urgent than “Islamophobia,” which it calls “a crime against humanity” that the U.N. and the EU must officially outlaw. Even discussing why so much terrorism is carried out in the name of Islam is to be forbidden. The OIC insists, too, that international bodies ban “defamation of religion,” by which it means criticism of anything Islamic. Defamation of Judaism, Christianity, Bahai, Hinduism, and even heterodox Muslim sects such as the Ahmadiyya is common within the borders of many OIC countries, a fact the OIC refuses to acknowledge.
Instead, the OIC has specifically “warned” the EU and the “international community” of the “dangers posed by the influence of Zionism, Neo-Conservatism, aggressive Christian evangelicalism, Jewish extremism, Hindu extremism and secular extremism in international affairs and the ‘War on Terrorism.’”
Though funding for terrorist groups flows generously from individuals in oil-rich OIC countries, the organization itself is not a supporter of terrorism. Neither, however, is it an opponent. Violence directed against those it views as enemies of Islam is defined as “resistance” — even when civilians, including women and children, are the intended victims.
Every American should read and think about this column because it is the bitter truth that is threatening the world. The mantra of minority empowerment and leaning over backwards to accommodate other people with different backgrounds is destructive.
I'll say something now that most people will not accept but I believe it's the only way out.
Christianity must pick up the Crusaders' sword again!
We can't fight a resurgent radical Islam with a lame plea of "Can't we just all get along?" Modernity and concern about the rights of other is no defense against a religious fascistic movement! The Crusades never ended!
Rand, re: "I'll say something now that most people will not accept but I believe it's the only way out.
Christianity must pick up the Crusaders' sword again!"
Rand, Patrick Buchanan has argued the same thing, that we must rediscover the "fighting faith" of our forefathers, or perish under the Islamic scimitar. Not necessary "perish" literally, but quite possibly that way - as Muslims have been known to slaughter infidels in places like Armenia and the Sudan, as well as the many acts of Islamic terrorism being committed around the globe today. Even if we avoid this fate physically, we will lose our homes and nations to the tide of Islamic colonists... er... immigrants, flooding our shores.
We may as well call ourselves crusaders, because the soldiers of Allah already do.
very depressing article but i still have hope as the europens as well as americans are beginning to wake up. hopefully it is not to late.
i have already sent an email to my congressman about the oic resolution to ban the "defamation" of religion that hillary is actually talking to them about and encourage others to please do the same
We have Jewish neighbors who find it difficult to hide their anti Christian feelings at times. My oldest son once felt moved to posit them this question.
There are 2.4 billion Christians in the world today.
There are 1.2 billion Muslims.
There are 380 million Jews.
If all of the Jews were suddenly gone how long to you think the Christians would survive?
If all of the Christians were gone how long do you think the Jews would survive.
Be careful who you chose to hate. They may end up being your best defenders.
Remember the only religious leader who openly supported Hitler was the Grand Mufti of Palestine who helped conceive of the final solution.
Obviously Mike, you've never visited Europe in recent decades. Visit Marsailles, Brussells, Louvain, Berlin, the Parisian suburbs, Amsterdam, Memlo, Birmingham, Manchester, and London. Perhaps your smugness will evaporate. But then again, liberals usually have no interest in the truth.
For those liberals who must live in Europe, opinions are a bit different. Germany is finally waking up to its demographic nightmare. The German government published a report that warned that its 2050 population will be just half of its 2010 population if present fertility rates continue. For a population to be halved in a generation, its Total Fertility rate must fall to or near 1.0 children per female. And the German government took into account its more fecund Muslim minorities. What that means is, the native German population will fall even more than 50%, as Turks, Pakistani, and North African women generally have 1.8 to 2.5 children. This is not fear mongering, but brutal facts.
MikeB - You are an idiot if you did not get his point. His post was a direct reply to your earlier one, in which you claimed to have traveled abroad recently.
What did YOU see, in your travels? Did you see any of the same things, as described? If so, were you troubled by them?
MY point is, you know exactly what was being said, and you choose to unceasingly post left-wing drivel, while ignoring (as typical libs do) the actual facts. Go on over to HuffPo, where you can double their "hits"
"What that means is, the native German population will fall even more than 50%, as Turks, Pakistani, and North African women generally have 1.8 to 2.5 children. This is not fear mongering, but brutal facts."
Are the consequences of that "brutal fact" good, bad, or neutral? How and why?
Mike,
The brutal facts are rather obvious. Try visiting one of the many No-Go Zones of London, Berlin, Brussells, Marsailes, or Memlo. While you're at it, take a few gay couples along with you, and see how long you last.If you don't know of any gays, take along a few females with no head coverings. Europe has over 300 No-Go Zones. Now, imagine the entire continent as one large No-Go Zone. Is that brutal enough for you?
So let me answer it. The fact is neither good nor bad. But JPK seems to think it's bad. Please explain how it's a bad fact. Good luck. Like trying to explain to me how it's bad that the number of Hispanic Americans is increasing at a faster rate than white Americans. Remember -- we're talking kids being born in Germany.
MikeB, try getting over race for a change. The London Tube bombers 3rd generation Englishmen. Thier grand parents may have come from Pakistan or Egypt, but for all practical purposes they were upper middle class Englishmen. But, besides thier youth, they had one thing in common -they were all Muslim and attended the same mosque. Now imagine, a nation with 30% of its population filled young jihadits.
