Zia Sardar reviews Christopher Caldwell’s Eurabian fantasies.
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Stephen Colbert interviews Christopher Caldwell about what Thabet has called his ‘Eurabian fantasy.’
Caldwell calls for French imams to be ‘Frenchifried.’ Colbert hears ‘french fried.’
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Christopher Caldwell’s new book continues to generate more reviews and responses: one from Bruce Lawrence; another from The Economist; a review of a review at Mondoweiss; and a review of the entire debate in the US and Europe at Religion Dispatches.
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I wonder how Mad Mel feels about her co-blogger Clive Davis putting up a picture of two worshippers in a mosque in Beirut. No doubt, it is more evidence that the last remaining citadel of Western Civilisation (The Spectator) is also being infiltrated by The Global Jihad.
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So, the brain cell behind The Movement To Prevent The Islamificationalisationalism Of The West visited one the outposts of The Global Jihad and didn’t like what he saw.
Good. I hope Londonistan seemed scared him so much he never comes back. Perhaps he can take his friend in the Resistance back to the US with him too? I hear Fox News may need a replacement soon…
Unsurprisingly, the comments are full of people masturbating to the thought of widespread anti-Muslim violence in Europe. I suppose it combines their dim view of Europeans with their hatred of Muslims.
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Fouad Ajami gets a free lesson from a reader of The New York Times.
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Pankaj Mishra has taken a bit of a beating on Talk Islam for his “apparently efficient anonymous overcomplex prose”. However, his essay on Eurabian fantasists and Europe’s anxiety over minorities, is worth wading through.
In one paragraph Mishra quotes from Christopher Caldwell’s extensively reviewed book, in which The Financial Times commentator discusses the spread of “Pakistani cuisine”:
Eurabia-mongers from America seem as determined as tabloid hacks to strike terror among white Europeans about their local newsagent or curry house owner. “If the spread of Pakistani cuisine,” [Christopher] Caldwell writes, “is the single greatest improvement in British public life over the past half-century, it is also worth noting that bombs used for the failed London transport attacks of July 21, 2005, were made from a mix of hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour.”
Caldwell is mad. Completely and utterly barking mad.
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The Daily Telegraph continues the Eurabian theme started by its Sunday sister last week:
Christian pupils are now outnumbered by Muslims at Roman Catholic schools in some parts of England.
A survey has found 24 Catholic primary schools in the North West and the Midlands teach a minority of churchgoing children.
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But The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine, found that in Oldham, Blackburn, Wolverhampton and Birmingham there has been a sharp decline in the proportion of Catholics being educated in local faith schools.
At English Martyrs in Sparkhill, Birmingham, just 36 of the 410 pupils are Catholic while the vast majority are Muslim.
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Two positive reviews of Eurabian books in two weeks by The New York Times.
Is The New York Times trying to tell us something?
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