[lit-ideas] Re: Eurabia, Preface (2)
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:15:26 -0500
LH:
Thus ends the preface to Eurabia, The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye’or.
And thus ends any possibliity I'll read anything further you or anyone else
to say about Eurabia. Jesus, Lawrence, don't you have anything better to
do?
Mike Geary
Memphis
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From: Lawrence Helm
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:01 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Eurabia, Preface (2)
This is the second note on Bat Ye’or’s preface:
"Over the past three decades, the EEC and the EU’s political and cultural
organizations have invented a fantasy Islamic civilization and history. The
voluminous historical record of violations of basic human rights for all
non-Muslims and women under the shari’a (Islamic Law) – throughout the past,
and in contemporary Muslim societies – is ignored, or dismissed. Immunized
from criticism by this fabricated historical construct, Europeans could
engage in mutually fruitful business transactions and diplomatic ventures –
particularly at the United Nations and other world bodies – with dictatorial
regimes. It is in this context of international relation s– pompously called
‘international legality- -- that ‘old Europe’ driven by France, the main
architect of this policy, opposed America and supported Palestinian
terrorist organizations.
"In this book, Euro-Arab Judeophobia will be examined only as an indicator
of the common Euro-Arab culture that is permeating, even overwhelming, all
levels of West European society. It is no easy task to avoid an analysis of
the current European Judeophobic trend. Under the euphemism of ‘peace
process,’ the EU has made Israel the cornerstone of its relations with the
Arab states, with the USA, and of its own security – as a quid pro quo
against Islamist terror. Hence, from whatever angle we observe these three
positions, we find that Israel is at the core of Europe’s strategies. In
fact, as it will become clearer in the following pages, under Arab pressure,
the EU has willingly made Israel hostage to its own Arab policy and its
security."
. . .
"Judeophobia does affect the way Europeans – whether Christian,
‘post-Christian,’ or atheist – understand their past and conceive their
future. This understanding of history, and conception of the future, is also
influenced by European anti-Americanism. The nexus between European
Jew-hatred and anti-Americanism becomes apparent when Americans resist
Islamization and perceive their identity and culture as an emanation of
biblical history and values – a heritage scorned by contemporary Eurabia."
. . .
European anti-Americanism is not a new phenomenon. During the Cold War, it
was perceived as an almost exclusively, albeit widespread, Soviet-inspired
phenomenon. However, a contemptuous anti-Americanism among some Europeans –
particularly French and Germans trends – reflected a sense of cultural
superiority and compensated for the Nazi, Fascist, and Communist defeats.
The collapse of the Communist system exposed other currents of anti-American
hatred, manifested by Third-Worldists, neo-Communists, and Islamists
reoriented into a powerful jihadist coalition against Western democracies
and their values. This recast ideological war is deeply rooted in a
Euro-Arab political alliance and growing cultural symbiosis, which
propagates – and expresses, often unabashedly – virulent antisemitism and
anti-Zionism.
"The Euro-Arab Dialogue implemented in the 1970s a new sociopolitical and
cultural conception, which has now affected profound changes within Western
Europe. In the following pages, I use the terms ‘Europeans’ and ‘Eurabians.’
Eurabia designates a new entity – with political, economic, religious,
cultural, and media components – superimposed on Europe by powerful
governmental lobbies. While Europeans live within Eurabia’s constraints, few
are really conscious of them on a daily basis, beyond a somewhat confused
awareness. Eurabians are the agents and enforcers of this all encompassing
new Eurabian policy and culture. The tension between Europeans and Eurabians
arises from fundamental and uncompromising differences over political,
societal, and cultural values, as well as core religious identities. This
tension is also apparent in disputes regarding the strength and durability
of the European-American transatlantic alliance and the cohesion of what we
still call Western civilization. The divisive European-Eurabian arguments
over the war in Iraq, or the larger global war on jihad terrorism, reflect a
deeper religious and cultural confrontation between western and Arab/Islamic
civilizations where, consciously or not, Eurabians have become the agents of
the Islamic political ambitions of Europe.
"This book will elucidate the origins of contemporary European dhimmitude
and examine its propagation. Similar developments, at a much more inchoate
stage, have been discerned in America, through examination of school
textbooks and university curricula." [her reference here reads "See Gilbert
Sewall, ‘Islam and the Textbooks,’
http://www.historytextbooks.org/islamreport.pdf., The American Textbook
Council, 2003, 35 pp.; www.Campus-Watch.org.’ Daniel Pipes, "Jihad and the
Professors,’ Commentary, November 2002; and for all Pipes writings on this
subject, http://www.danielpipes.org/art/cat/47. Martin Kramer, Ivory Towers
on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Washington, DC.:
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001).]
Lawrence
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