There are fears about a rising phenomenon called ‘Eurabia’ that is anti-US and anti-Western values, and pro-Islam. This myth is mere rabblerousing, at the very least. The fear stems from the thought that Europe ‘has allowed decades of mass immigration,’ is ‘too feeble to defend their own values,’ and is where ‘governments have been ready to appease Muslim opinion.’

The bigger fear is that Europe ‘has already become an incubator for worldwide terrorism,’ basing it on the Islamophobic assumption that Islam followers are terrorists. If the alarmists are to be believed, there seems to have been a ‘creeping Islamification’ of Europe, particularly of British society.

One of the misleading points of alarmist propaganda is that ‘the number of Muslims in Europe could increase from roughly 20 million today—about 5 percent of the population—to 38 million by 2025.’ However, more logically calculated projections reveal that ‘even if it’s accurate, it would still mean the number of Muslims will represent just 8 percent of the European population, estimated by the EU to be 470 million in 2025.’

The paranoia behind the myth of Eurabia rests on the suspicion that there exists ‘a united Islam, a bloc capable of collective and potentially dangerous action. The truth is that there are no powerful Muslim political movements in Europe, either continentwide or at the national level, and the divisions that separate Muslims worldwide, most obviously between Sunnis and Shiites, are apparent in Europe as well.’

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Via Newsweek