Eurabia rhetoric recycles older European fears of Muslim conquest

Evidence

Eurabia is a variant on the same tradition. At the same time, the spectre of a new Islamic invasion echoes an older confrontation with the ‘Moor’ and the ‘dreadful Turk’ that has haunted the European imagination ever since the Muslim conquests of the seventh century. Like Ye’or, proponents of the Eurabian nightmare tend to marginalise or discount completely the Islamic contribution to ‘European’ civilisation, presenting Islam as an alien and hostile presence, eternally committed to expanding the ‘Dar al Islam’, the zone of Islam, at the expense of the ‘Dar al Harb’, the zone of hostility, through force of arms. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 58

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the paired Islamic juridical concepts Dar al-Islam (zone of Islam) and Dar al-Harb (zone of hostility) as used in this polemical framing.
• SEED: Angle: ‘The Dreadful Turk Never Left’ — how each era rebrands the same inherited fear of an Islamic invasion of Europe, from Lepanto to Eurabia.
• XREF: connects to: Demographic replacement rhetoric targets Muslims as Europe’s version of the browning of America — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 310