Neither journalist, author, and iconoclast Oriana Fallaci nor author Bat Ye’or invented the term “Eurabia,” but both women say it aptly describes the situation in which Europe now finds itself.

”Europe is no longer Europe; It is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought and for the concept itself of liberty,” Ms. Fallaci recently told The Wall Street Journal.

It Italy, Ms. Fallaci is the subject of a widely-distributed pamphlet entitled “Islam Punishes Oriana Fallaci.” It exhorts Muslims to “eliminate” her.

Ms. Ye’or, too, has faced death threats. An Egyptian-born Jew, she uses the pseudonym which means, in Hebrew, “Daughter of the Nile.”

For more than 30 years, she has been warning about the danger posed by the jihadists mentality to all western democracies. Europe, she said, has been in denial not only about the threat but also the extent of collusion between jihadists and many European politicians, motivated by economic aims, a philosophy of comfortably appeasement, and shared values of anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism, and plain anti-Semitism.

In a review of Ms. Ye’or’s most recent book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, published by Fairleigh Dickinson Press, Tom Gross, a former Jerusalem correspondent for the London Telegraph, pointed out that many Western liberals, who insist on viewing the world through “their own narrow prism,” still argue that Islamic terrorism is the product of “ignorance and poverty,” ignoring the evidence that most suicide bombers are well-educated and come from relatively wealthy families.

”Like Nazis, Communists, and others before them who would destroy Western civilization, the jihadists in Europe, Iraq, and al-Qaeda know exactly what they are doing,” Said Mr. Gross.

In Eurabia, Ms. Ye’or argues that it is no accident that militant Muslims with jihadists intentions have become forceful once again in Europe. In fact, she says, the term “Eurabia” was first used in the mid-1970s as the title of a journal edited by the president of the Association fro Franco-Arab Solidarity.

According to Ms. Ye’or, the concept of Eurabia was part of a grand design by French and other European diplomats to fuse the European and Arab worlds. Their goal, she says was to eliminate Israel and then challenge the US for world hegemony.

The fact that there would be increased immigration to Europe from Muslim countries was seen as a plus because the younger workers were needed to finance European nations’ elaborate system of entitlements and benefits, particularly state-sponsored pensions, designed for retired and elderly Europeans. Europe, with its falling birthrate, could not hope to supply by natural means the workforce necessary.

”Within a single generation, a significant portion of the population of major cities in a dozen European countries have become Muslim,” said Mr. Gross, adding that the crisis for Europe is not merely about numbers.

He noted that while the majority of Muslims in Europe wish to integrate while peacefully practicing their religion, “opinion polls indicate that an increasing minority do not.” […]