Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate
Other Works by Bat Yeor
Les Juifs en Egypte, 1971. Revised and enlarged Hebrew edition: Yehudiya Mizrayim. Foreword by Hayyim Zeev Hirschberg. Translated from the French by Aharon Amir, 1974.
Le Dhimmi: Profil de lopprim en Orient et en Afrique du Nord depuis la conqute arabe, 1980.
The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam. Revised and considerably enlarged English edition. Preface by Jacques Ellul. Translated from the French by David Maisel, Paul Fenton, and David Littman, 1985. (Seventh printing, 2005.)
Ha-Dimmim: Bnai Hasoot. Enlarged Hebrew edition. Translated by Aharon Amir. Preface by Jacques Ellul. Introduction by Moshe Sharon, 1986.
The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam. Russian edition. In 2 vols. 1991.
Les Chrtients dOrient entre Jihd et Dhimmitude, VIIe-XXe sicle. Preface by Jacques Ellul, 1991. 2nd ed., 2007.
The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude. Seventh-Twentieth Century. With a Foreword by Jacques Ellul. Translated from the French by Miriam Kochan and David Littman, 1996. (Fifth printing, 2005).
Juifs et Chrtiens sous lIslam: Les dhimmis face au dfi intgriste, 1994. (Second printing, 2005.)
Der Niedergang des orientalischen Christentum unter de Islam. German edition. With a preface by Heribert Busse. Translated from the French and English by Kurt Maier, 2003. 6th ed., 2006.
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide. Translated from the French by Miriam Kochan and David Littman, 2002. (Fourth printing, 2005).
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, 2005. (Eleventh printing, 2010, with new preface, postscript, and appendix.)
Eurabia: lAxe Euro-Arabe, 2006.
Eurabia: Come lEuropa diventata anticristiana, antioccidentale, antiamericana, antisemita, 2007.
Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate
Bat Yeor
F AIRLEIGH D ICKINSON U NIVERSITY P RESS
Madison Teaneck
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Bat Yeor.
Europe, globalization, and the coming universal caliphate / Bat Ye'or.
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1. MuslimsEuropePolitics and government. 2. MuslimsGovernment policyEurope. 3. EuropeRelationsIslamic countries. 4. Islamic countriesRelationsEurope. 5. Islam and politicsEurope. 6. Organisation of Islamic Conference. 7. International agenciesEurope. 8. Civilization, WesternIslamic influences. 9. Culture and globalizationEurope. 10. MulticulturismEurope. I. Title.
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Contents
Foreword
Introduction
| The European Union and the Organization of the Islamic Conference: A Common Struggle |
| Multiculturalism, the OIC, and the Alliance of Civilizations |
| The Destruction of the Nations of Europe |
| Networks of Global Governance |
Bibliography
Index of People
Index of Organizations
Index of Places
About the Author
Foreword
Michael Curtis
By her stream of books and articles over the last thirty years, Bat Yeor, an independent scholar not connected with any ideological or political group nor identified with any partisan organization, has made a singular and challenging contribution to the discussion of the historic and present role of Islam in politics and society in Europe and elsewhere. Throughout that long literary career she has written on various subjects, but most important have been the works on the treatment of non-Muslims, or dhimmis, in countries under Islamic rule, and on the nature and impact of that Islamic rule.
Her writings are commentaries of a scholarly character and strong observations of an original kind, but are also very much interrelated with and emanate from her personal history. This is the poignant story of a young Jewish woman forced to leave her native Egypt as the Jewish community which had existed in that country for over 2,600 years came to an end. Bat Yeor chronicled that community in an early book in 1971, Les Juifs en Egypte .
If Bat Yeor has been a formidable and courageous figure in discussion of Islamic activities, she has also been a controversial and politically incorrect one, whose work has sometimes been found by more conventional critics to be strident. It is understood that not everyone will agree with her assertions and her resolute conclusions and policy recommendations. It is equally clear that her arguments and analysis are presented strongly and clearly, sometimes emphatically, and with exact references, accumulation of accurate data, and a scholarly apparatus. In the present age of political correctness when criticism of Islamic activities or even commentary on them have been subjected to various forms of censorship or denial, and even violent personal assault, in Western countries, it is refreshing to read Bat Yeors well-presented, stimulating, and insistent thoughts, and frequently her unfashionable views. Even if one is not always in agreement with them, it is salutary to read, consider, and take them into account.
Bat Yeor began her original approach with the first of her major works, Le Dhimmi , published in 1980. In this and further works, she examined the texts of Islamic theologians and jurists and testimonies of eyewitnesses in various Islamic countries on the treatment of their non-Muslim populations, challenging the mainstream position on the question held by many scholars. One of them, Mark Cohen, expresses this position in a number of writings, especially in his book, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages . The general argument by Cohen and others is that non-Muslims under Muslim rule were tolerated, though not treated in benign fashion, and were considered protected people who were guaranteed security of life and property, communal autonomy with their own leaders and judges and able to abide by their own laws in personal and family matters, and having relatively free practice of religion. Though dhimmis were treated unequally in relations between them and Muslims, it is often argued that Jewish individuals were treated with more toleration in Islamic countries than in countries under Christian rule. The orthodox view is that both Jews and Christians in return for being protected people by Muslims accepted their subordinate status as second-class subjects and the restrictions, taxes at higher rates than those for Muslims, tolls, and customs duties.
