{"id":2732,"date":"2016-03-06T14:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2016-03-06T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T19:13:32","slug":"sharia-tectonics-eurabia-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2016\/03\/sharia-tectonics-eurabia-lie.html","title":{"rendered":"Shari&#8217;a tectonics; Eurabia is still a lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the weird stuff I see on Facebook and Twitter, this pretty much beats all this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/sharia-tectonics.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/sharia-tectonics.jpg\" alt=\"sharia tectonics\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2733\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brother looks like he&#8217;s got some knee pain. And tiny t-rex arms. Anyway, I&#8217;m sure we can blame Obama for this somehow.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, this image is more likely the result of a fearmongering Islamophobe than an overly enthusiastic Muslim polemicist. The fears of &#8220;Eurabia&#8221; &#8211; invented by the conspiracy theorist and self-styled &#8220;scholar&#8221; Bat Ye&#8217;or, then syndicated by the Islamophobia industry, have been thoroughly debunked &#8211; here is a BBC Radio video that refutes Ye&#8217;or&#8217;s arguments about Eurabia in exhaustive detail:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Muslim Demographics: The Truth\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mINChFxRXQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s supplementary essays by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loonwatch.com\/2009\/10\/are-muslim-hordes-about-to-overrun-europe-and-america\/\">Danios at Loonwatch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyfrog.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/03\/muslim-demographics\/\">TinyFrog<\/a> that comprehensively refute the Eurabia theory.<\/p>\n<p>What about the ongoing migrant and refugee crisis in Europe? There were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-34131911\">1.3 million asylum applicants<\/a> in all of the European Union in 2015. Considering that Europe has a population of 742.5 million, the refugee crisis can safely be dismissed as negligible as far as impact on European demographics is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: Eurabia still is a lie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the weird stuff I see on Facebook and Twitter, this pretty much beats all this week. Brother looks like he&#8217;s got some knee pain. And tiny t-rex arms. Anyway, I&#8217;m sure we can blame Obama for this somehow. 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}