This sounds so frightening, but why does the author not come back to this in the article?CaduceusMercurius a dit:In recent weeks, the European Commission and the UK have made apparent concessions to Islamic law
I did some searching on these things, and I found that such projections are far, far from normal, accepted science. Projections generally estimate about 10-25% of European Muslim population in 2100. Why are in this article only these extreme projections shown? And well, what if? What if Europe has 51% Muslims before 2100? In most countries with a Muslim majoroty, there is no Sharia law and non-Muslims aren't suppressed, so what's so scary? Also, the underlying 'us and them' irritates me. 'Muslims have this birthrate, we have this birthrate, so they will eventually be with more and suppress us all'. How simplistic is that? It's like we're already in a civil war now, not with violence but with birthrates. :S .Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis made his famous prediction in 2004: "Current trends show that Europe will have a Muslim majority by the end of the 21st century at the latest […]. Europe will be part of the Arab West-the Maghreb."
The rest of this article consitst of similar 'facts'. It is not balanced, as only arguments for this one theory are shown, without any counterarguments. And it's not one, consistent story but more like a summing up of loose 'facts' that have something to do with the question mosty halfely. It makes you feel that somewhere there must be indeed this giant evil plan of Muslims that want to try to take over our society, without really speaking of this plan, because of course if you would really look, it's not there.
I think the whole 'Eurabia' hypothesis sounds nice and frightening, but it's just a weak theory based on loose arguments, and mostly pseudoscientific. It's interesting food for a talk in the pub, and if you believe in it it's nice because you are the one awake and the rest are all dumb and sleeping. Just like climate skepticism and most other conspiracy theories, really. It's also falsely culturally protectionistic I think. This article breaths the quiet assumption that a certain cultural influence becoming more important is always a bad thing. While really, standing cultures are dead cultures.