Eurabian rhetoric inverts the real power relation between besieged Muslim minorities and dominant cultures.

Evidence

In many parts of Europe, Muslim communities live precarious, besieged existences but the Eurabian nightmare reverses these dynamics, in order to present the dominant ‘Christian’ or ‘secular’ culture as under siege, not just by the Muslim minorities that actually exist but by the hypothetical majorities of the future that will subject the rest of Europe to servile dhimmitude. Once this perspective is accepted, it becomes possible to view the French housing projects and the ‘mill and mosque’ northern English towns not as zones of social deprivation and exclusion, but as outposts of barbarism and potential launching pads for jihadist ‘fifth columns’ that will sooner or later engulf the countries in which they have become ‘implanted’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 73

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Nadeem Aslam’s ‘Maps for Lost Lovers’ and to narratives of Muslim lives in Britain as precarious, defensive enclaves rather than encroaching threats.
• SEED: An essay on how the besieged/hypothetical-majority inversion maps onto zoning of ethnic enclaves as ‘territory’ in the settler imagination.