EU elites finally fear something about Islamization

When Islam scholar Bernard Lewis told an interviewer for a German newspaper in July that Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century, his intention was not to warn about immigration or the increasing influence of Muslims or the loss of European culture. If he had been talking about such things, his comment would not have set off the furor that it did among the elites of the European Union, for the simple reason that those elites do not care about their historic civilization and Islam’s threat to it. They are not concerned about the Islamic threat to European culture because to destroy that culture is the agenda of the EU itself. What the EU elites do care about is the expansion of their own bureaucratic and transnational power, and that was what Lewis said is doomed by Islamization. Asked by the German reporter whether the EU could serve as a global counterweight to the United States, Lewis replied, “No,” adding that he saw only three countries as potential “global” players: China, India, and Russia. “Europe,” he noted matter-of-factly, “will be part of the Arabic west, of the Maghreb.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 29, 2004 12:11 PM | Send