[BRIEF NOTE] Dhimmitude
Jan. 2nd, 2004 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldYou know, it would be really nice if certain periodicals stopped referring to Bat Ye'or as an expert on Islamic cultures when it's fairly clear that she doesn't know what she's talking about; or, rather, that she seeks to misrepresent the facts.
(As if Maghrebin and Turkish immigration to western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s was not a simple labour migration but rather part of a plot by European and Arab elites to Islamize Europe. As if, since the oil shock, there has been unrestricted immigration to western Europe. As if the experiences and effects of Muslim immigrants in western Europe in the early 21st century differ in kind, or even in number, from the experiences and effects of southern and eastern European immigrants in the neo-Europes in the early 20th century.)
UPDATE: I go into more detail, beginning here.
(As if Maghrebin and Turkish immigration to western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s was not a simple labour migration but rather part of a plot by European and Arab elites to Islamize Europe. As if, since the oil shock, there has been unrestricted immigration to western Europe. As if the experiences and effects of Muslim immigrants in western Europe in the early 21st century differ in kind, or even in number, from the experiences and effects of southern and eastern European immigrants in the neo-Europes in the early 20th century.)
UPDATE: I go into more detail, beginning here.
