Are these simply isolated events? Or is Europe in the grip of a new wave of Islamophobia?
First, the books described by writer and critic Pankaj Mishra in a long polemical article in The Guardian as works of "Eurabia-mongers" who believe that Europe is about to be "over-run" by Muslims with at least one American writer claiming that they are already "conquering Europe's cities, street by street."
A common theme running through these books is that Europe's 53 million-strong Muslim population is a "demographic time-bomb" which needs to be defused immediately if the continent does not want to end up as "Eurabia." The solution is simple if stark: keep Muslims out of Europe and, if necessary, throw them out. Some of the suggestions on how to deal with the Muslim "problem" amount to ethnic cleansing.
For flavour, consider this chilling passage from Canadian commentator Mark Steyn's book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It: "In a democratic age, you can't buck demography — except through civil war. The Serbs figured that out — as other Continentals will in the years ahead; if you can't outbreed the enemy, cull 'em."
American writer Bruce Bawer's new book Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom, which has been hailed as "an essential wake-up call" for the West (New York Times Book Review called it "unquestionably correct"), is a vitriolic attack on European liberals, including sections of the liberal media, who — it argues — have been driven by a combination of fear and political correctness to appease radical Islam at the cost of their "most cherished values."
http://newageislam.com/new-wave-of-islamophobia-in-europe?/muslims-and-islamophobia/d/1698
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