How convenient for the liberal pundits to attack the far-right and the ideology of hatred. They tend to ignore the role of "identity politics" that has been used to plague the minds.
This was uttered by a liberal columnist in the Financial Times in 2009: “Immigrants also bring a lot of disorder, penury and crime … Muslim culture is unusually full of messages laying out the practical advantages of procreation … If you walk north across the Piazza Della Repubblica in Turin, you see, mutatis mutandis, what the Romans saw. To the east, two well-preserved Roman towers remain, and so do the walls built to separate citizens from barbarians. Today, in the space of about 60 seconds on foot, you pass from chic shops and wine bars through a lively multiethnic market into one of Europe’s more menacing north African slums.”
This was uttered by the perpetrator of the attack in El Paso, US, in August 2019: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion ... America is rotting from the inside out, and peaceful means to stop this seem to be nearly impossible.”
The following piece is good in an informative way, but it has not a single paragraph that contextualises the process of capitalist "globalisation" and global political economy and its impacts on social fabrics. It seems that 9/11 attacks, with some literature here and there, generated the myth of Eurabia and Islamophobia, the threat of the Other and the individual violence that has accompanied them. Such an approach is an example of the fragmentaion of social thought. An approach that examines a social-ideological phenomenon as if it is unique rather than like poverty, inequality, exploitation, destruction of the environment, riots, social protests... part and parcel of the same system.
There are also a couple of sloppy statements such as "the rise of Islam as a global force"!! Islamic armies and navies with nuclear weapons at the gates of Europe, Islamic multinationals taking over google, Amazon and Walmart, Islamic brands swamping the TVs and streets of the West...?
How the myth of Eurabia went mainstream
This was uttered by a liberal columnist in the Financial Times in 2009: “Immigrants also bring a lot of disorder, penury and crime … Muslim culture is unusually full of messages laying out the practical advantages of procreation … If you walk north across the Piazza Della Repubblica in Turin, you see, mutatis mutandis, what the Romans saw. To the east, two well-preserved Roman towers remain, and so do the walls built to separate citizens from barbarians. Today, in the space of about 60 seconds on foot, you pass from chic shops and wine bars through a lively multiethnic market into one of Europe’s more menacing north African slums.”
This was uttered by the perpetrator of the attack in El Paso, US, in August 2019: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion ... America is rotting from the inside out, and peaceful means to stop this seem to be nearly impossible.”
The following piece is good in an informative way, but it has not a single paragraph that contextualises the process of capitalist "globalisation" and global political economy and its impacts on social fabrics. It seems that 9/11 attacks, with some literature here and there, generated the myth of Eurabia and Islamophobia, the threat of the Other and the individual violence that has accompanied them. Such an approach is an example of the fragmentaion of social thought. An approach that examines a social-ideological phenomenon as if it is unique rather than like poverty, inequality, exploitation, destruction of the environment, riots, social protests... part and parcel of the same system.
There are also a couple of sloppy statements such as "the rise of Islam as a global force"!! Islamic armies and navies with nuclear weapons at the gates of Europe, Islamic multinationals taking over google, Amazon and Walmart, Islamic brands swamping the TVs and streets of the West...?
How the myth of Eurabia went mainstream