Commentators frame Islam and the West as an unbridgeable civilizational gulf

Evidence

In another doomsday article in the Spectator on ‘The collapse of the West’, Melanie Phillips defines the same unbridgeable gulf between the West and the Islamic barbarians: Muslims not only despise western secular values as decadent, materialistic, corrupt and immoral. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 58

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to someone who tracks British press coverage of Islam — Phillips and Browne both publishing doomsday pieces in the Spectator.
• QUESTION: How much of the Eurabia genre’s rhetorical force comes from framing itself as ‘doomsday’ prophecy rather than analysis?