Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160703 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
This provocative and disturbing book is about the transformation of Europe into "Eurabia," a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world. Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and antisemitic, while striving for Israel's disappearance and the vilification and isolation of America. The institution responsible for this transformation, and that continues to propagate its ideological message, is the Euro-Arab Dialogue, developed by European and Arab politicians and intellectuals over the past thirty years. With all the drama of a master writer, Bat Ye'or presents a wide range of historical and contemporary documents and facts to tell the story of how the European Union is being subverted by Islamic hostility to the very ethics and values of Europe itself. Readers who seek a fair resolution of the Arab-Israel conflict will be shocked by the evidence produced in these pages of unfair pressures and deliberate distortions. Europe's independence of spirit is shown in the process of being undermined. This book challenges the current demonization of Israel and should be essential reading for everyone interested in true peace in the Middle East

Customer Reviews

EU-Islamic alliance? Or future conflict?
Eurabia describes how the EU and its various earlier incarnations believed that in order to acheive super power status, the EU would have to do two things. Firstly, would be to secure oil and gas to power itself. Secondly, it would need a ready supply of cheap labour. The Arab/Muslim world across the Med was seen as the perfect source for both.

Bat Yeor contends that this project was strongly led by the French, who felt that they had unique influence in North Africa, and who also felt that they would be the country that could dominate an EU-North Africa Union, and Sarkozy's recent remarks about a Mediterranean Union seem to suggest that this is still the view of opinion makers in France.

Yeor holds that Euromed was/is short sighted on several important fronts. Firstly, the Arab countries demanded (and got) that Muslims have an absolute right to immigrate into European countries without having to integrate. The result was the creation of dangerous "no-go" areas, where radical preachers could roam with impunity. The second result was that the Arab countries also demanded (and also got) the European nations distance themselves from the US and Israel, thus breaking the "Western" world up and making it weaker.

Yeor also holds that the Andalusian period in Moorish Spain is being used as historical justification for this Euromed idea by the European media and political elites. The EU elite often describe this period as a model for a multicultural, enlightened co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims. Yeor describes this as historical revisionism of the worst kind, and lists a number of atrocities that the Moorish carried out in Andalusia.

The book is not without weakness. Perhaps prime amongst them is the fact Yeor often quotes, sometimes at great length from original Euromed policy documents, which can be rather droning. This is especially confusing in light of the large appendix section of the book. The book is also rather long, and feels a little repetitive at times, possibly because Yeor's own personal frustration bubbles over in her writing.

All in all, this is a must read for anyone interested in the relationship between Islam and the West, especially in the European Union.

Eurabia ...Bat Ye'or
Recommended. Thorough, weighty and relevent. Refreshing in the midst of much fearful secularist and religious bullying about tolerance. I do think this book encourages dialogue of a more assertive nature. Enough appeasement or do we want what is offered? For what it covers it is very good. Scriptural Prophecy is left un-touched but this is done well by others with feet of iron and clay.

The Demasking of The European Arab Dialogue
Bat Ye'or's study into the (new) understanding between European policy makers and Arab politicians is an astonishing account of the cowardice and fear shown by the elites of Europe.
I see Ye'or's work as important as that of the American philosopher Hannah Arendt's in her thoroughly study of the twentieth centurys totalitarianism.
Two outstanding scholars, females, and both Jewish. And both of them have, in their through work with the last hundred years sinister ideologies, demasked the mechanisms behind those who hold totalitarian ideas.
A reader from Nykoebing, Denmark