- Why the elite should have chosen to take this path is not something we
have the space to discuss here. One explanation for what is going on is to
be found in the following works: Bat Ye’or, Eurabia, Madison, 2005;
Bat Ye’or, Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate,
Madison, 2011. Suffice to say, that while academics, the Western media
and the political class were talking up “the Arab Spring” (a laughable idea
that across Muslim North Africa, popular liberal democracies would
spring up), Bat Ye’or was predicting the return of the Caliphate, the
Islamic State. The phenomenon of the Arab Spring fizzled out very
quickly, with “Islamic fundamentalists” winning the elections. Thus, Bat
Ye’or’s explanation of where the world is headed (and why) seems to
have predictive power which outweighs the cumulative thought of almost
the entire Western world. Consequently, it would be foolish for anyone to
dismiss her explanation. ↵
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