Eurabia
Eurabia is a political neologism. The concept was coined by writer Gisele Littman (Bat Ye’Or) in the early 2000s. In Littman’s use, it denotes a conspiracy theory, where European and Arab powers aim to Islamise and Arabise Europe, undermining previous alignment with the U.S. and Israel. Several similar conspiracy theories have been developed from Littman’s “Mother conspiracy theory”.
The premises common to these theories are that Europe is undergoing a rapid demographic transition, induced by “European politicians and civil servants”, that will lead to a Muslim majority, and that these Muslims will have an unchanging, hostile attitude toward their national communities. Other premises, such as acquiring the compliance of or control over bureaucracies, intelligentsias and European political leaders are frequent. The conspiracy theories have been compared to antisemitic conspiracy theories such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or the Zionist Occupation Government. The prospect of a Muslim majority in Europe is regarded by leading demographers as extremely unlikely in the foreseeable future.The Pew Research Center notes that “the data that we have isn’t pointing in the direction of ‘Eurabia’ at all”, with the percentage of Muslims rising on the continent to 8% in 2030. The theory has been dismissed by academics as an islamaphobic conspiracy theory.