(FrontPage Magazine) - Bat Ye'or Europe has undergone a profound structural and demographic change, which is not yet fully perceived by Europeans, even less by Americans. This transformation of a Judeo-Christian-based civilization and culture by strong trends of Islamization is creating social, political, and cultural grounds for confrontations that could provoke dangerous social implosions. The drifting away of Europeans from America reveals a traumatic fear of a terrorism that the EU always refused to acknowledge, scapegoating instead Israel and America. It reveals the preservation, at all costs, of Arab and Muslim corrupt dictatorships, including Arafat, with whom the EU has built its economic and international political strategy, power, and security. And, more threatening, it indicates a profound transformation, a mutation, whereby a civilization is engulfed in "dhimmitude" (submission to Islamic domination).
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