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Concerns over Islamist extremism in the west have for some time been skewing the debate about the integration of Muslims in Europe. The worst canard is the dystopian vision of “Eurabia”: the idea, based on sketchy demographic projections, that the old continent will soon be overtaken by Arabs.Stéphanie Giry
The middle east scholar Bernard Lewis has forecast that Muslims will outnumber non-Muslims in Europe by the end of the century, and that in the meantime western governments will have to contend with the “Wahhabi menace,” which is “particularly strong among Muslim communities in Europe and America.” Niall Ferguson, too, has lamented “the extraordinary prospect of European demographic decline” while trumpeting the perils of Muslim immigration. “A youthful Muslim society to the south and east of the Mediterranean is poised to colonise—the term is not too strong—a senescent Europe.”