The Eurabia Code, Part I
Author: Fjordman
Eurabia – which asserts that the Islamicization of Europe didn't happen merely
by accident but with the active participation of European political leaders - is
hardly ever referred to at all, despite the fact that it is easy to document.
Does the notion of Eurabia hit too close to home? Perhaps it doesn't fit with
the anti-American disposition of many journalists? Curiously enough, even those
left-leaning journalists who are otherwise critical of the European Union
because of its free market elements never write about Eurabia.
Because of this, test whether the Eurabia thesis is correct, or at least
plausible. The Eurabia Code, alluding to author Dan Brown's massive bestseller
The Da Vinci Code.
What follows is a brief outline of the thesis put forward by writer Bat Ye'or in
her book "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis." My information is based on her
book (which should be read in full). In addition I have drawn from some of her
articles and interviews. I republish the information with her blessing, but this
summary is completely my own.
In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Bat Ye'or explained how French
President Charles de Gaulle, disappointed by the loss of the French colonies in
Africa and the Middle East as well as with France's waning influence in the
international arena, decided in the 1960's to create a strategic alliance with
the Arab and Muslim world to compete with the dominance of the United States and
the Soviet Union.
"This is a matter of a total transformation of Europe, which is the result
of an intentional policy," said Bat Ye'or. "We are now heading towards
a total change in Europe, which will be more and more Islamicized and will
become a political satellite of the Arab and Muslim world. The European leaders
have decided on an alliance with the Arab world, through which they have
committed to accept the Arab and Muslim approach toward the United States and
Israel. This is not only with respect to foreign policy, but also on issues
engaging European society from within, such as immigration, the integration of
the immigrants and the idea that Islam is part of Europe."
"Europe is under a constant threat of terror. Terror is a way of applying
pressure on the European countries to surrender constantly to the Arab
representatives' demands. They demand, for example, that Europe always speak out
for the Palestinians and against Israel."
Thus, the Eurabian project became an enlarged vision of the anti-American
Gaullist policy dependent upon the formation of a Euro-Arab entity hostile to
American influence. It facilitated European ambitions to maintain important
spheres of influence in the former European colonies, while opening huge markets
for European products in the Arab world, especially in oil-producing countries,
in order to secure supplies of petroleum and natural gas to Europe. In addition,
it would make the Mediterranean a Euro-Arab inland sea by favoring Muslim
immigration and promoting Multiculturalism with a strong Islamic presence in
Europe.
The use of the term "Eurabia" was first introduced in the mid-1970s,
as the title of a journal edited by the President of the Association for
Franco-Arab Solidarity, Lucien Bitterlein, and published collaboratively by the
Groupe d'Etudes sur le Moyen-Orient (Geneva), France-Pays Arabes (Paris), and
the Middle East International (London). Their articles called for common
Euro-Arab positions at every level. These concrete proposals were not the
musings of isolated theorists; instead they put forth concrete policy decisions
conceived in conjunction with, and actualized by, European state leaders and
European Parliamentarians.
During a November 27, 1967 press conference, Charles de Gaulle stated openly
that French cooperation with the Arab world had become "the fundamental
basis of our foreign policy." By January 1969, the Second International
Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples, held in Cairo, in its resolution 15,
decided "…to form special parliamentary groups, where they did not exist,
and to use the parliamentary platform support of the Arab people and the
Palestinian resistance." Five years later in Paris, July 1974, the
Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation was created, under the
Euro-Arab Dialogue rubric.
Bat Ye'or has highlighted this shared Euro-Arab political agenda. The first step
was the construction of a common foreign policy. France was the driving force in
this unification, which had already been envisaged by General de Gaulle's inner
circle and Arab politicians. The Arab states demanded from Europe access to
Western science and technology, European political independence from the United
States, European pressure on the United States to align with their Arab policy
and demonization of Israel as a threat to world peace, as well as measures
favorable to Arab immigration and dissemination of Islamic culture in Europe.
This cooperation would also included recognition of the Palestinians as a
distinct people and the PLO and its leader Arafat as their representative. Up to
1973 they had been known only as Arab refugees, even by other Arabs. The concept
of a Palestinian "nation" simply did not exist.
During the 1973 oil crisis, the Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries announced that, due to the ongoing Yom Kippur War between
Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt and Syria, OPEC would no longer ship
petroleum to Western nations that supported Israel. The sudden increase in oil
prices has had lasting effects. Not only did it create a strong influx of
petrodollars to countries such as Saudi Arabia, which permitted the Saudis to
fund a worldwide Islamic resurgence, but it also had an impact in the West,
especially in Europe.
However, Arab leaders had to sell their oil. Their people are very dependent on
European economic and technological aid. The Americans made this point during
the oil embargo in 1973. According to Bat Ye'or, although the oil factor
certainly helped cement the Euro-Arab Dialogue, it was primarily a pretext to
cover up a policy that emerged in France before that crisis occurred. The
policy, conceived in the 1960s, had strong antecedents in the French
19th-century dream of governing an Arab empire.
This political agenda has been reinforced by the deliberate cultural
transformation of Europe. Euro-Arab Dialogue Symposia conducted in Venice (1977)
and Hamburg (1983) included recommendations that have been successfully
implemented. These recommendations were accompanied by a deliberate, privileged
influx of Arab and other Muslim immigrants into Europe in enormous numbers.
The recommendations included:
1. Coordination of the efforts made by the Arab countries to spread the Arabic
language and culture in Europe,
2. Creation of joint Euro-Arab Cultural Centers in European capitals,
3. The necessity of supplying European institutions and universities with Arab
teachers specialized in teaching Arabic to Europeans, and
4. The necessity of cooperation between European and Arab specialists in order
to present a positive picture of Arab-Islamic civilization and contemporary Arab
issues to the educated public in Europe.
These agreements could not be set forth in written documents and treaties due to
their politically sensitive and fundamentally undemocratic nature. The European
leaders thus carefully chose to call their ideas "dialogue." All
meetings, committees and working groups included representatives from European
Community nations and the European Council along with members from Arab
countries and the Arab League. Proceedings and decisions took place in closed
sessions. No official minutes were recorded.
The Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) is a political, economic and cultural institution
designed to ensure perfect cohesion between Europeans and Arabs. Its structure
was set up at conferences in Copenhagen (15 December 1973), and Paris (31 July
1974). The principal agent of this policy is the European Parliamentary
Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation, founded in 1974. The other principal
organs of The Dialogue are the MEDEA Institute and the European Institute of
Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation, created in 1995 with the
backing of the European Commission.
In an interview with Jamie Glazov of Frontpage Magazine, Bat Ye'or explained how
"in domestic policy, the EAD established a close cooperation between the
Arab and European media television, radio, journalists, publishing houses,
academia, cultural centers, school textbooks, student and youth associations,
tourism. Church interfaith dialogues were determinant in the development of this
policy. Eurabia is therefore this strong Euro-Arab network of associations -- a
comprehensive symbiosis with cooperation and partnership on policy, economy,
demography and culture."
Eurabia's driving force, the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab
Cooperation, was created in Paris in 1974. It now has over six hundred members -
from all major European political parties - active in their own national
parliaments, as well as in the European parliament. France continues to be the
key protagonist of this association.
A wide-ranging policy was sketched out. It entailed a symbiosis of Europe with
the Muslim Arab countries that would endow Europe – and especially France, the
project's prime mover – with a weight and a prestige to rival that of the
United States. This policy was undertaken quite discreetly, and well outside of
official treaties, using the innocent-sounding name of the Euro-Arab Dialogue.
The organization functioned under the auspices of European government ministers,
working in close association with their Arab counterparts, and with the
representatives of the European Commission and the Arab League. The goal was the
creation of a pan-Mediterranean entity, permitting the free circulation both of
men and of goods.
On the cultural front there began a complete re-writing of history, which was
first undertaken during the 1970s in European universities. This process was
ratified by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe in September
1991, at its meeting devoted to "The Contribution of the Islamic
Civilization to European culture." It was reaffirmed by French President
Jacques Chirac in his address of April 8, 1996 in Cairo, and reinforced by
Romano Prodi, president of the powerful European Commission, the EU's
"government," and later Italian Prime Minister, through the creation
of a Foundation on the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations. This foundation
was to control everything said, written and taught about Islam in Europe.
Over the past three decades, the EEC and the EU's political and cultural
organizations have invented a fantasy
Islamic civilization and history. The
historical record of violations of basic human rights for all non-Muslims and
women under sharia (Islamic Law) is either ignored or dismissed. In this
worldview the only dangers come from the United States and Israel. The creators
of Eurabia have conducted a successful propaganda campaign against these two
countries in the European media. This fabrication was made easier by
pre-existing currents of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in parts of Europe,
although both sentiments have been greatly inflated by Eurabians and their
collaborators.
On January 31, 2001, with the recrudescence of Palestinian terrorist jihad,
European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten declared to the European
Parliament that Europe's foreign policy should give special attention to its
southern flank (the Arab countries, in EU jargon), adding that he was delighted
by the general agreement to give greater visibility to the Mediterranean
Partnership.
Bat Ye'or thinks that "Our politicians are perfectly informed of Islamic
history and current policies by their embassies, agents and specialists. There
is no innocence there, but tremendous inflexibility in corruption, cynicism and
the perversion of values."
In the preface to her book, she states that "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."
The new European civilization in the making can correctly be termed a
''civilization of dhimmitude.'' The word dhimmitude comes from the Islamic legal
designation ''dhimmi.'' It refers to the subjugated, non-Muslim individuals who
accept restrictive and humiliating subordination to Islamic power in order to
avoid enslavement or death. 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 dysfunction and
dhimmitude. The dhimmis are inferior beings who endure humiliation and
aggression in silence. This arrangement allows Muslims to enjoy an impunity that
increases both their hatred and their feeling of superiority, under the
protection of the law.
Eurabia is a novel new entity. It possesses political, economic, religious,
cultural, and media components, which are imposed on Europe by powerful
governmental lobbies. While Europeans live within Eurabia's constraints, outside
of a somewhat confused awareness, few are really conscious of them on a daily
basis.
This Eurabian policy, expressed in obscure wording, is conducted at the highest
political levels and coordinated over the whole of the European Union. It
spreads an anti-American and anti-Semitic Euro-Arab sub-culture into the fiber
of every social, media and cultural sector. Dissidents are silenced or
boycotted. Sometimes they are fired from their jobs, victims of a totalitarian
"correctness" imposed mainly by the academic, media and political
sectors.
According to Ye'or, France and the rest of Western Europe can no longer change
their policy: "It is a project that was conceived, planned and pursued
consistently through immigration policy, propaganda, church support, economic
associations and aid, cultural, media and academic collaboration. Generations
grew up within this political framework; they were educated and conditioned to
support it and go along with it."
Are Bat Ye'or's claims correct, or even possible?
Bernard Lewis has pointed out that, by common consent among historians,
"the modern history of the Middle East begins in the year 1798, when the
French Revolution arrived in Egypt in the form of a small expeditionary force
led by a young general called Napoleon Bonaparte--who conquered and then ruled
it for a while with appalling ease."
In an unsuccessful effort to gain the support of the Egyptian populace, Napoleon
issued proclamations praising Islam. "People of Egypt," he proclaimed
upon his entry to Alexandria in 1798, "You will be told that I have come to
destroy your religion; do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your
rights, to punish the usurpers, and that more than the Mamluks, I respect God,
his Prophet, and the Qur'an."
According to an eyewitness, Napoleon ended his proclamation with the phrase,
"God is great and Muhammad is his prophet." To Muslim ears, this
sounded like the shahada - the declaration of belief in the oneness of Allah and
in Prophet Muhammad as his last messenger. Recitation of the shahadah, the first
of the five pillars of Islam, is considered to mark one's conversion to Islam.
Muslims could thus conclude that Napoleon had converted to Islam. In fact, one
of his generals, Jacques Ménou, did convert to Islam.
The French were later defeated and forced to leave Egypt by the English admiral
Lord Nelson. Although the French expedition to Egypt lasted only three years, it
demonstrated that the West was now so superior to the Islamic world that
Westerners could enter the Arab heartland, then still a part of the Ottoman
Empire, at will. Only another Western power could force them to leave. The shock
of this realization triggered the first attempts to reform Islam in the 19th
century.
A positive result of Western conquest was the influx of French scientists into
Egypt and the foundation of modern Egyptology. Most importantly, it led to the
discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which was later used by French philologist
Jean-François Champollion to decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
However, the encounter also left a lasting impact in Europe, and above all in
France.
The French invasion of Algeria in 1830 marked another chapter in this tale.
Later, the French ruled Tunisia and Morocco. Finally, after the First World War,
the French gained mandates over the former Turkish territories of the Ottoman
Empire that make up what is now Syria and Lebanon. After the Second World War,
French troops gradually left Arab lands, culminating with war and Algerian
independence in 1962. However, their long relationship with Arabs resulted in
France's belief that she had a special relationship with and an understanding of
Arabs and Muslims. Along with French leadership in continental Europe, this
would now provide the basis of a new foreign policy. President de Gaulle pushed
for a France and a Europe independent of the two superpowers. In a speech, he
stated that "Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is
Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the destiny of the
world." In 1966, he withdrew France from the common NATO military command,
but remained within the organization.
Following the Six Days War in 1967, de Gaulle's condemnation of the Israelis for
their occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip marked a significant change
in French foreign policy. Previously, France - as well as the rest of Western
Europe - had been strongly pro-Israel, even going to war together with Israel as
late as 1956 against Nasser's Egypt. From 1967 on, however, France embarked on a
decidedly pro-Arab course.
It has been said that English foreign policy has remained the same since the
16th century. Its goal was to prevent any country, whether Spain, France, or
later Germany, from dominating continental Europe to the extent that it
represents a threat to England. On the other hand, one could argue that French
foreign policy has also remained the same for several centuries; its goal is to
champion French leadership over Europe and the Mediterranean region in order to
contain Anglo-Saxon (and later Anglo-American) dominance. This picture was
complicated by the unification of Germany in the late 19th century, but its
outlines remain to this day.
Napoleon is the great hero of French PM de Villepin. Several prominent French
leaders stated quite openly in 2005 that the proposed EU Constitution was
basically an enlarged France. Justice Minister Dominique Perben said: "We
have finally obtained this 'Europe à la française' that we have awaited for so
long. This constitutional treaty is an enlarged France. It is a Europe written
in French." From its inception, European integration has been a French-led
enterprise. The fact that the French political elite have never renounced the
maintenance of their leadership over Europe was amply demonstrated during the
Iraq war.
President Chirac famously said in 2003 after Poland, Hungary and the Czech
Republic backed the US position "They missed a good opportunity to shut
up," adding "These countries have been not very well behaved and
rather reckless of the danger of aligning themselves too rapidly with the
American position."
Jean Monnet, French economist never elected to public office, is regarded by
many as the architect of European integration. Monnet was a well-connected
pragmatist who worked behind the scenes towards the gradual creation of European
unity.
Richard North, publisher of the blog EU Referendum and co-author (with
Christopher Booker) of The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive,
relates that for years - at least from the 1920s - Jean Monnet had dreamed of
building a "United States of Europe." Although what Monnet really had
in mind was the creation of a European entity with all the attributes of a
state, an "anodyne phrasing was deliberately chosen with a view to making
it difficult to dilute by converting it into just another intergovernmental
body. It was also couched in this fashion so that it would not scare off
national governments by emphasising that its purpose was to override their
sovereignty."
In their analysis of the EU's history, the authors claim that the EU was not
born out of WW2, as many people seem to think. It had been planned at least a
generation before that.
The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950, widely presented as the beginning of the
efforts towards a European Union and commemorated in "Europe Day,"
contains phrases which state that it is "a first step in the federation of
Europe", and that "this proposal will lead to the realization of the
first concrete foundation of a European federation." However, as critics of
the EU have noted, these political objectives are usually omitted when the
Declaration is referred to, and most people are unaware of their existence.
A federation is, of course, a State and "yet for decades now the champions
of EC/EU integration have been swearing blind that they have no knowledge of any
such plans. The EEC/EC/EU has steadily acquired ever more features of a
supranational Federation: flag, anthem, Parliament, Supreme Court, currency,
laws."
The EU founders "were careful only to show their citizens the benign
features of their project. It had been designed to be implemented incrementally,
as an ongoing process, so that no single phase of the project would arouse
sufficient opposition as to stop or derail it." Booker and North call the
European Union "a slow-motion coup d'état: the most spectacular coup d'état
in history," designed to gradually and carefully sideline the democratic
process and subdue the older nation states of Europe without saying so publicly.
The irony is that France is now held hostage by the very forces she herself set
in motion. The Jihad riots by Muslim immigrants in France in 2005 demonstrated
that Eurabia is no longer a matter of French foreign policy, it is now French
domestic policy. France will burn unless she continues to appease Arabs and
agree to their agenda.
The growth of the Islamic population is explosive. According to some, one out of
three babies born in France is a Muslim. Hundreds of Muslim ghettos already de
facto follow sharia, not French law. Some believe France will quietly become a
Muslim country, while others are predicting a civil war in the near future.
Maybe there is some poetic justice in the fact that the country that initiated
and has led the formation of Eurabia will now be destroyed by its own
Frankenstein monster. However, gloating over France's dilemma won't help. The
impending downfall of France is bad news for the rest of the West. What will
happen to French financial resources? Above all, who will inherit hundreds of
nuclear warheads? Will these weapons fall into the hands of Jihadist Muslims,
too?
The Eurabia Code, Part I
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