Meanwhile, the complaceniks held down prestigious chairs at European universities and think tanks and assure us there’s no problem. Timothy Garton Ash is an Oxford professor who directs its European Studies Centre, the sort of chap National Public Radio calls in when they need an “expert” on the EU.

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The populations of Europe are aging fast, so more immigrants will be needed to support the pensioners, and these will largely be Muslim immigrants.  For this increasingly Muslim Europe to define itself against Islam would be ridiculous and suicidal…Let’s imagine, for a moment, Europe in 2025 at its possible best.  A political, economic, and security community of some forty free countries and 650 million people, embracing all the lands in which the two world wars began, and producing, still, a large part of the wealth of the world.  A further 650 million people, born in the most explosive parts of the early twenty-first-century globe, but now living in a great arc of partnership with this European Union, from Marrakesh, via Cairo, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Tbilisi, all the way to Vladivostok.  That would not be nothing.

No, indeed.  It would certainly be something, but quite what he declines to say.  And that’s what Garton Ash sees as the Continent’s “possible best” – a giant Euro-Muslim “arc of partnership”.  Faced with a choice between correcting course or drifting irrevocably into Eurabia. Garton Ash has chosen consciously to embrace the latter.  He will not be the last.

AMERICA ALONE By Mark Steyn  p. 125. 

This book describes Europe’s evolution from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment secular elements, into a post-Judeo-Christian civilization that is subservient to the ideology of jihad and the Islamic powers that propagate it.  The new European civilization in the making can be called a “civilization of dhimmitude.”  The term dhimmitude comes from the Arabic word “dhimmi”.  It refers to subjugated, non-Muslim individuals or people that accept the restrictive and humiliating subordination to an ascendant Islamic power to avoid enslavement or death.¹   The entire Muslim world as we know it today is a product of this 1,300 year-old jihad dynamic, whereby once thriving non-Muslim majority civilizations have been reduced to a state of dysfunctional dhimmitude.  Many have been completely Islamized and have disappeared.   Others remain as fossilized relics of the past, unable to evolve. 

Eurabia by Bat Ye’or The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or p. 9

1.   Bat Ye’or, The Dhimmi:  Jews and Christians under Islam, translated from the French by David Maisel, Paul Fenton and David Littman.   With a preface by Jacques Ellul.  Revised and enlarged English edition (Rutherford, NJ:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985).

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