The effects of the machinations that Bat Ye’or details here are playing out on Europe’s streets, as outlined by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in this piece from WorldNetDaily. An excerpt:
What Europe has long sown it is now reaping. Bat Ye’or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized oppression of non-Muslims in Muslim societies, chronicles in her forthcoming book “Eurabia” how it has come to this. Europe, she explains, began 30 years ago to travel down a path of appeasement, accommodation and cultural abdication before Islam in pursuit of short-sighted political and economic benefits. She observes that today, “Europe has evolved from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment/secular elements, to a ‘civilization of dhimmitude,’ i.e., Eurabia: a secular-Muslim transitional society with its traditional Judeo-Christian mores rapidly disappearing.”
After the Beslan child massacres, however, there are signs from Eastern Europe that this may be changing. Last Sunday, Poland turned away 100 Chechen Muslims who were trying to enter the country from Belarus. This is the sort of measure that the countries west of Poland have been so far unwilling to take. But since one cannot by any means screen out the jihadists from the moderate Muslims, and the moderates are not helping identify the jihadists either, what choice did the Poles have?
It might not be too long before they will have to turn away entrants from Scandinavia and France as well.