Eurabia

[[File:Eurabia map.png|thumb|right|165px|Eurabia. Apparently Iceland, Greenland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Iran, and the European part of Russia aren't in it.]]
{{Islamophobia}}{{conspiracynav}}"'''Eurabia'''" is an Islamophobic [[conspiracy theory]] and a [[doomsday scenario]] in which [[Europe]] will be [[Islam]]ized in the near future (like [[Judaism|another Semitic culture]] was, [[Neo-Nazism|and often still is]], [[Antisemitism|blamed]] for the same thing). The doomsday scenario involves Muslims (whom the kind of people who promote this theory conflate with Arabs) forming the majority of [[Europe]]'s population by the end of the 21st century, due to immigration and to higher birth-rates. They will then seize control and Islamise the continent. The conspiracy theory suggests that this is being deliberately planned by European [[elite]]s, and especially by the [[European Union]]. The Eurabia theory combines [[Islamophobia]] and [[Euroscepticism]].

The Eurabia theory is a politically significant conspiracy theory in Europe. It has been adopted by [[populist]] politicians such as [[Geert Wilders]], and was also the main ideological inspiration for [[far right]] [[terrorist]] [[Anders Behring Breivik]], who killed 77 people in [[Norway]] in 2011. His manifesto ''2083'' contains repeated references to Eurabia, and his attacks aimed to contribute to its defeat.

==Origin and claims==
Unlike most conspiracy theories, Eurabia can be traced to a single source and a single author. The "self-taught [[Jewish]] intellectual" Gisèle Littman published the book ''Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis'' in 2005, under the name [[Bat Ye'or]].<ref>Adi Schwartz,[http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-brussels-1.190865 "The protocols of the elders of Brussels"], ''Ha'aretz'', 20 June 2006</ref> She was born in [[Egypt]]: her family fled the country after the [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] revolution, and her research was mainly on the treatment of Jews in the Middle East. She married David Littman, an activist who campaigned against [[antisemitism]] in Muslim-majority countries. 

The original version of Eurabia [[PIDOOMA|claimed]] that the European Economic Community, the forerunner of the EU, made a deal with Arab powers in the mid-1970's. In exchange for [[oil]], it would turn against [[Israel]] and accept immigrants from Muslim countries (North [[Africa]] and the Middle East). The current version is broader. It claims that there is a Europe-wide mass immigration policy to "transform" the continent, and that it will create a Muslim majority in cities from around 2020, 
which has obviously failed — most cities in Europe are not even close to ⅓ Muslim,
 and in the rest of the continent later, perhaps after 2050. The Eurabia theory claims that [[multiculturalism]] is part of this strategy, and that political elites are [[Appeasement|appeasing]] [[Islamism|militant Islam]] and conceding to Muslim demands to impose their culture.

Many authors have contributed to the current version, which was promoted through books, articles, and especially in the blogosphere. Book authors include Bruce Bawer, Theodore Dalrymple, Oriana Fallaci, and Serge Trifkovic. [[Melanie Phillips]] promoted a [[UK]] variant, about [[London]] being transformed into "'''Londonistan'''".{{efn|The demonym of Londonistan is Londonistani.}} In the [[US]], the Eurabia theory was promoted by the [[Gates of Vienna]] blog (Ned May), conspiracist blogger [[Pamela Geller]], Canadian-American [[pundit]] Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, [[Daniel Pipes]], and general purpose loonies [[Frank Gaffney]] and Netherlands's Arthur van Amerongen.

The most comprehensive source for the current version is the Norwegian blogger [[Fjordman]] (Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen), who is quoted extensively in Breivik's manifesto. This is how Fjordman summarises the Eurabia scenario for the future of Europe:

{{quotebox|The EU continues its transformation into a continent-wide organization with clear totalitarian leanings, and a very pro-Islamic stance. Europe’s fate is sealed when Turkey is allowed into the Union, and becomes its largest member. Historian Bat Ye’or, who first coined the term “Eurabia”, thinks that Europe’s ties with the Arab-Islamic world are now so firmly entrenched and established that Eurabia is an irreversible fact. Europe will cease to be a Western, democratic continent, and will become an appendix to the Arab world. Eurabia will become a global center for Jihad activities, as the dhimmi taxpayers and infidel Western technology give a boost to the Ummah. Muslims will be heavily concentrated in the major cities, and the dhimmi native population will retreat into the countryside. The old nation states will thus slowly die, as their major cities, which constitute the brain and “head” of its culture, are cut off from the rest of the body. Europe’s decline into Eurabia will be sped up by the fact that millions of educated natives with the means to it will move to the USA or other nations. There will be no major war in Western Europe, as its civilization is already dead and very few will bother fighting for it.}}

The scenario is that European elites decided in the 1970s to Islamize Europe, and for that purpose started a program of mass immigration of Muslims. The immigrants are not coming for [[economic]] reasons, but to [[Irony meter|colonize Europe]], Islamize it, and destroy its [[Christian]] heritage and values. The Muslim immigrants are taking over the cities of Europe, district by district. They establish no-go areas, and introduce [[Sharia law]]. The authorities conceal the true number of Muslims, but they will soon be a majority in most cities. The Muslims continuously impose their own culture, and the political elites [[Appeasement|appease]] them. Muslim families are [[Stereotype|''all'']] very large, so their share of the total population is growing. Ultimately they will form a majority, and they will reduce non-Muslims to the status of [[dhimmi]] (serf).<ref group=note>Funnily enough, there is a Christian movement, [[Quiverfull]], whose adherents ''actually dedicate themselves to producing as many children as physically possible'', health and economic concerns be damned, in order to secure their status as the demographically dominant majority. Given this fact, the Eurabia theory accusing Muslims of doing the exact same thing for the exact same reason sounds an awful lot like it's yet another case of the [[far right]] engaging in [[psychological projection]].</ref> Europe will then be a Muslim continent, perhaps part of a global [[caliphate]], where all [[Sunni]]s and [[Shiite]]s would get along!

==Evidence==
Unsurprisingly, proponents of the Eurabia hysteria rarely provide [[evidence]]. Claims about the [[demographic]] transformation of Europe rest on assumptions of extremely high birthrates among Muslim immigrants, which are supposed to continue indefinitely. However, general tendency is for immigrant populations to reduce their birth rates over time to approximate the birth rates of their new home countries.<ref>G. Nargund, (2009) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/ "Declining birth rate in Developed Countries: A radical policy re-thin is reqired"], ''Facts, Views and Visions in ObGyn''</ref> Serious demographic projections don't suggest anywhere near a Muslim majority: the Pew Research Center estimates that the Muslim share of Europe's population will rise "from 6% of the region’s inhabitants in 2010 to 8% in 2030."<ref>[http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ The Future of the Global Muslim Population], Pew Research</ref> The only documentary evidence cited for Eurabia is the 1975 "Strasbourg Resolution" — a non-binding declaration on Euro-Arab co-operation. The document has a [[myth]]ical status among Eurabia proponents, but its text does not substantiate any conspiracy theory.<ref group=note>This is similar to how certain [[United Nations|UN]] documents, such as [[Agenda 21]], are viewed by [[New World Order|NWO]] conspiracy theorists.</ref> Coincidentally, Eurabia conspiracy theorists [[cherry picking|just happen]] to [[willful ignorance|ignore]] the major European-Israeli [[free trade]] deal made that same year.<ref>Caroline du Plessix, (2011) [http://bcrfj.revues.org/6675 "The European Union and Israel"], ''French Research Center in Jerusalem''</ref>

The theory gives no plausible reason European elites and an — [[Anti-Europeanism|ostensibly notoriously secular]] — EU would want to Islamize the entire continent. A few Eurabia proponents suggest that they are [[Cultural Marxism|cultural Marxists]], whose real goal is to destroy [[West]]ern civilization, and that Islam is simply their instrument (even though this would mean them too). Aha.

==See also==
*[[Anders Behring Breivik]]
*[[Fifth Column]]
*[[Fjordman]]
*[[Free State Project]], an ''actual'' attempt by [[libertarianism|regressive zealots]] to invade a region and replace its culture and politics with their own
*[[Islamofascism]]
*[[Max Hermansen]]
*[[The Great Replacement]]
*[[White genocide]]
*[[Yellow Peril]], remarkably similar to Eurabia fears
*[[Quiverfull]], a Christian movement that ''is literally trying to outbreed the "atheist scum" to secure Christian domination of America'' 

==External links==
*[http://www.economist.com/node/7086222 Tales from Eurabia], ''The Economist''
*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article590235.ece It's the latest disease: sensible people saying ridiculous things about Islam], David Aaronovitch
*[http://dougsaunders.net/2013/09/10-myths-about-muslim-immigrants-in-the-west/ 10 Myths About Muslim Immigrants in the West], Doug Saunders
*[http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-amid-all-this-panic-we-must-remember-one-simple-fact--muslims-are-not-all-the-same-412756.html Amid all this panic, we must remember one simple fact - Muslims are not all the same], [[Johann Hari]]
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