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Here's my review of Bat Ye'or's new book Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate.
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Bat Ye’or, author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, has published a new book titled Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate. It is a concise, five-chapter book, and the contents mince no words. "The Destruction of the Nations of Europe" is ominously the final chapter. And the link between Europe and Islam is under the chapter "The European Union and the Organization of the Islamic Conference: A Common Struggle." There are two chapters on multiculturalism, one simply titled "Multiculturalism," and the other "Multiculturalism, the OIC and the Alliance of Civilizations."
The general theme of the book is the European link with Islam, and how many stages of Islam’s presence in Europe were aided and abetted by the policies and directions of European governments and leaders.
Eurabia is a term coined by Bat Ye’or, and she explains this concept fully in her book. Under the subtitle: "The Origin of Eurabia," Ye’or paints a frightening picture of former Nazis collaborating with Muslim leaders to enter and influence the infrastructures of European society and politics under a Muslim and Arab body. One of these earliest associations was initiated in 2002 under The Euro-Arab Dialogue, which formalized agreements between the European Economic Commission and countries in the Arab League that were made as far back as 1973. But, the history goes further than that, when Nazi antisemitism was supported by the Arab world, and Hitler actively sought the alliance of Muslim countries in his (and their) quest to annihilate the Jews.
Bat Ye’or writes in Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate:
...in Islam peace only exists between Muslims, and not between Muslims and non-Muslims5. The word “peace” applied to non-Muslims requires conversion or submission (dhimmitude)…striving in the path of Allah to spread Islam in the world is not war but a pious, just action and a religious duty.Islam is not only a religious concept, but a warrior one as well, where the world’s non-believers (non-Muslims) are brought to Allah through armed jihad. The world has always belonged to Allah, and those parts that were taken away over the centuries have to be returned to him, hence the argument for violent wars against “infidel” territories, who blaspheme against Allah but who can receive eternal blessing and salvation once they and their people return to Islam.
Under the heading "The Centrality of Israel in Islamic-Christian Relations" Bat Ye’or clarifies what is the common bond that binds Muslims and Christians and of course Europeans: the hatred of Jews and of Israel. The tactic Muslims have used to bring Christians to their fold is through the dejudaization the Bible. There is no tactic for Jews, as Mohammed has clearly delineated, only death. Bat Ye’or once again references Europe’s darkest hour, Nazism, to show this bond between Islam and a Europe without its Christian roots. She writes:
The policy of dejudaization of Christianity is not new. Based on prejudice and ignorance of Judaism, it reached in paroxysm in Nazism and served as a binding force between, on the one hand, Nazis and antisemites in Europe, and on the other hand, their faithful allies in the Muslim world – including the Arab Churches and Christian Arabs, particularly Palestinians.Modern Europe continued with this antisemitism and Muslim collaboration through a clever strategy of immigration. Hypocritical leaders chastised, and won over, their populations by labeling aversion to immigration as racism, and that it is equal to the evil of the antisemitism that led to the death of thousands of Jews only a few decades ago.
Europe’s pact with Arabs was sealed in 1973 through the European Community (precursor to the European Union). Persistent terrorist attacks in European cities by Palestinians, and the OPEC oil boycott broke the European front, and the leaders made a deal with the Muslim world to recognize the PLO, to side with the Arab world against Israel and the United States, and to allow unrestricted Muslim immigration into Europe to dampen European nationalistic movements. The Muslim lands would in turn quell the terrorist attacks and give Europeans access to their oil. The Iraq war in 2003, President Bush’s "war on terror" campaign, prompted fresh anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments, with renewed Euro-Arab pacts, including strengthening ties with the PLO.
One of the most frightening revelations of the book is the collaboration of European nations with former Nazi Germany officials who had "recycled themselves in influential positions in postwar European society...The war against the Jews waged in World War II did not stop in 1945, for its ideology and tactics continued through other channels converging in Palestine," writes Bat Ye’or.
The policy of open immigration of Muslims into European countries led to the most amorphous effect of the Arab-European pact, which manifested itself into a policy of multiculturalism. But, Muslims and Arabs refused to be integrated into European society, creating pockets of their culture within the cities they inhabited. Rather than confront this, the history of multiculturalism in Europe has been to find ways to circumvent this refusal and still allow such alien cultures to live in their societies. Islamic customs, holidays, dress-codes and law were accorded an equal footing with those of their host countries. “Diversity” was coined to accommodate these cultural impasses. This precipitated “The destruction of the nations of Europe” as Bat Ye’or titles her penultimate chapter, which amongst other elements, has allowed totalitarian, anti-diverse, anti-multicultural Islam to flourish, and the ever-growing Muslim population, now several generations old, to expand and destroy the centuries-old European civilizations.
The "networks of global governance" – the Islamic Caliphate – are now in place. Bat Ye’or concludes:
In the twenty-first century we are reliving a replica and restoration of the Islamic Caliphate of the seventh century, through approval and pliability of Western leaders. One might compare these demands on the West with Article 23b of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which stipulates:Everyone shall have the right to participate directly or indirectly in the administration of his country’s public affairs. He shall also have the right to assume public office in accordance with the provisions of shari’a.