Topic summary
Eurabia
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Eurabia conspiracy theory.
Issues
The Eurabia concept is an Islamophobic conspiracy theory. Eurabia reduces the complex interactions between the US, France, Israel, and Arab and Muslim countries to an "us against them" narrative. The Eurabia theories are dismissed as Islamophobic, extremist and conspiracy theories in the academic community. At first academics showed little interest in the Eurabia theories due to their lack of factual basis. The theme was treated in studies of rightist extremism and Middle East politics. This changed after the 2011 Norway attacks, which resulted in the publication of several scholarly works specifically analyzing the Eurabia conspiracy theories.