By Alyssa A. Lappen
AmericanThinker.com | April 5, 2005
[In a wide ranging interview with Islamic scholar Bat Ye’or comes a frank discussion of Eurabia: what it is, and what it means for Americans. — Interview by Alyssa A. Lappen]

In her new book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye’or takes a sweeping view of history, not the one that most of us consider, just past the ends of our noses. The world’s preeminent historian of two unique Islamic institutions, jihad and dhimmitude—the latter, the humiliated, precarious state of non-Muslim peoples living under Islamic rule—Bat Ye’or has masterfully portrayed the means by which the Euro-Arab Dialogue unfolded over the past 30-plus years. ‘There are three forms of jihad,’ she says today, ‘the military jihad, the economic jihad and the cultural jihad.’ The EAD between the European Community and the Arab League has been a means of spreading [the] economic and cultural jihad from the Middle East to Europe.

In November 1967, Charles De Gaulle announced at a press conference that henceforward, France would assume a pro-Arab policy. His goals were to prevent a return to intra-European wars and to help France resume its leading role in European politics and history. Little could he have imagined the far-reaching results. De Gaulle died in November 1970, but in October 1973, following Egypt and Syria’s war against Israel, Georges Pompidou picked up his policy reigns and led Europe into the Euro-Arab Dialogue—(EAD), a process that took hold and changed the face of Europe for the worse.

On French initiative, the European Community sought to open a Euro-Arab Dialogue, but the Arab League for their part made any dialogue dependent on the establishment of an anti-Israel policy in Europe.

Outraged that Israel had won the war against all odds, with help from the U.S., the oil-producing members of the Arab League unilaterally quadrupled the price of oil and cut production by 5 percent a month. Additionally, they imposed an oil embargo on the nations considered friendly to Israel—the U.S., Denmark and Holland. France and Germany panicked. On November 6, 1973, the nine countries of the European Economic Community met in Brussels and issued a joint resolution that reversed the intent and meaning of United Nations Resolution 242, and declared illegal all territory Israel had gained in its defensive 1967 war. Furthermore, the EEC demanded that henceforward ‘the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people’ be included in any definition of peace. Continue reading “Triple-pronged Jihad — Military, Economic and Cultural” →

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