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Thornton’s review of Eurabia
Here is a useful review of Bat Ye’or’s Eurabia by Bruce Thornton. Thornton offers a good summary of the book’s themes, except that he almost exclusively emphasizes the pro-Palestine aspect of Eurabia. Yes, Eurabia, as Bat Ye’or shows, had its genesis in Europe’s agreement to support at all costs the PLO (which in its 1964 charter called for the destruction of Israel), and this “Palestinianism” has been perhaps the chief engine in the construction of Eurabia for these last 30 years. But at the same time, the very concept of “Eurabia” means a merger between Europe and the Moslem world in which Europe is being demographically and culturally Islamized, and Thornton, in his focus on European anti-Israelism, barely touches on the much more fateful question of European Islamization. One possible clue to this myopia is that the review was published at Victor Hanson’s website, and Thornton has previously co-written articles with Hanson. Yes, Hanson is known for worrying about immigration, but mainly about illegal immigration, not immigration as a demographic and cultural invasion, invited and empowered by ourselves, that is leading to the elimination of our culture. What I think I detect in this review (though I hope I’m wrong) is the neoconservative assumption that it’s ok to defend tiny beseiged Israel from Moslems, and it’s ok to defend “democracy” from Moslems, but it’s not ok to defend the West as a concrete historic civilization from Moslems.
In this connection, let us also remember the glee or cold indifference expressed by various Bush supporters over the prospect of hated “old Europe” being submerged by Islam. Email entry |