2006
DOI: 10.1177/0306396806066636
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Abstract: In recent years, an increasingly influential intellectual consensus on both sides of the Atlantic has presented Europe as a doomed and decadent continent that is being transformed into an Islamic colony called ‘Eurabia’. The term was originally coined by the British-Swiss historian Bat Ye’or to describe what she identified as a secret project between European politicians and the Arab world for the ‘Islamicisation’ of Europe. What began as an outlandish conspiracy theory has become a dangerous Islamophobic fant… Show more

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“…20 As strong as the threatening practices of Muslims in descriptions of the counter jihad are images of a powerless Europe in decline and sliding into decadence, unable to resist Islamic take over. 21 The idea that European culture in particular is in a state of decline, while a spiritually vigorous East represented by Islam is in the ascendancy in civil society, is a common sentiment in some circles. Carr points out that the argument has found favour with prominent conservative commentators such as Melanie Philips and Mark Steyn.…”
Section: Melagrou-hitchens and Brun What They Describe As The Europeamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…20 As strong as the threatening practices of Muslims in descriptions of the counter jihad are images of a powerless Europe in decline and sliding into decadence, unable to resist Islamic take over. 21 The idea that European culture in particular is in a state of decline, while a spiritually vigorous East represented by Islam is in the ascendancy in civil society, is a common sentiment in some circles. Carr points out that the argument has found favour with prominent conservative commentators such as Melanie Philips and Mark Steyn.…”
Section: Melagrou-hitchens and Brun What They Describe As The Europeamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…conspiracy. 24 In some accounts, belief in the conspiracy is a dividing line between a hard core of counter jihad activists and a more mainstream conservative right wing outside the boundaries of the counter jihad scene. 25 Equally, for Zúquete there remains a divide between rational and critical engagement with Islam and irrational, "fear-laden" accounts.…”
Section: Melagrou-hitchens and Brun What They Describe As The Europeamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The earliest work concentrated on the ideological basis of the movement and the emergence of counter jihad narratives and literature including Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, a central text in counter jihad conspiracy theory (Bangstad, 2013;Carr, 2006;Zúquete, 2008). The actions of a lone actor terrorist in Norway in 2011 also led to a considerable amount of academic attention being paid to the counter jihad movement as a result of the extensive amount of material featured in the compendium put out to justify the attacks (Fekete, 2011;Gardell, 2014;Jackson, 2013;Titley, 2013).…”
Section: The Counter Jihad Movement and The Islamisation Conspiracymentioning
confidence: 99%