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Eurabia
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Eurabia (a portmanteau of "Europe" and "Arabia") is the name given to a hypothetical future scenario in which, thanks to a supposed declining birth rate among white Europeans and capitulation from politicians trying to appeal to immigrant communities, Europe becomes ruled by Muslims, who reshape the continent to resemble the Middle East (specifically either Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan), or at least the Theme Park Version of it. In most scenarios, this new state links up with a Middle Eastern Coalition to form a new Euro-Asian caliphate. While the word itself was first used as a name for the newsletter of a Euro-Arab friendship committee in the 1970s, the concept underlying its modern usage was coined by far-right essayist Bat Ye'or in her 2005 book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, which claimed that there was a conspiracy underway between France and the Arab world to allow Europe to become "Islamicized" as part of a plan to increase its power against the United States and Israel. Although Ye'or's theories have been derided by a lot of academics (and many of those who believe them are aren't exactly fond of Jews or Israel themselves), it has not stopped them from inspiring a number of works imagining an Islamic takeover of Europe. Bear in mind that a lot of the mindset on this trope involves a belief that All Muslims Are Arab, which ignores non-Muslim Arabs or non-Arab Muslims. Indeed, the only Islamic countries in Europe, located in the Balkans, aren't even Arab or Semitic and blend Islamic culture with their local European one. Or to put it in the terms of this very wiki, European Muslim nations are far more likely to resemble Ruritania than Qurac. Usually involves a Bad Future. May be part of an Author Tract or Filibuster Freefall. Compare and contrast other region-specific cases of Take Over the World (America Takes Over the World, Russia Takes Over the World, China Takes Over the World, Japan Takes Over the World, etc.) as well as Americasia on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. As arguments over the actual plausibility of this are often prone to Flame Bait, No Real Life Examples, Please!. |
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In The Years of Rice and Salt, this future happens a thousand years early, as The Black Death kills off virtually the entire European population, allowing the Islamic world to settle the empty continent. The resultant power struggle over the next thousand years is between the Islamic world and the Chinese one. | |
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The Mirage is an Alternate History variant. The Middle East and North Africa are unified into the United Arab States, which went on to become a major player in world history, while Europe and America are divided among third-world Christian nations. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists hijacked planes and crashed them into important landmarks in Baghdad and Riyadh, which lead to the UAS invading the Christian States of America in 2003. Later it's revealed that the entire setting was created as a result of a wish made to a Djinn. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in an episode where Bart befriends a Muslim family, and Homer, who'd been watching too many episodes of 24, has a nightmare about Springfield becoming Islamicized, with the Genie from Aladdin transforming American things into stereotypical Muslim things (and turning all music into copies of Cat Stevens albums). In another episode, "Days of Future Past", Milhouse is living in Michigannote The city of Dearborn, MI, has the largest Muslim population in the USA, due to successive waves of immigration from the Middle East since the 1920s, which makes it a favorite setting for Islamophobic online hoaxes and rumors, which in the future is under shariah law, and is forced to wear a hijab. |
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Command & Conquer: Generals: In the sequel, the totally-not Al-Qaeda GLA (which is an awful lot more comparable to ISIS) manages to get control over Western Europe (thanks in part to U.S. isolationism after having their weaponry stolen and used to destroy their own forces). It's China that drives them out. GLA’s founding population is more central Asian than Arab; the center of their territory is Kazakhstan. In the sequel Zero Hour, however, Egyptian and Somali chapters of the GLA finally appear. A popular Game Mod called Rise of the Reds postulates that the GLA invasion actually reversed the trend of the Islamicisation of Europe; the European Muslims were so utterly disgusted by the GLA's chain of war crimes that they denounced anything having to do with them and subsequently tried harder than ever to integrate and accept Western values, in an attempt to escape any potential stigma they could suffer from it. This is especially true in Germany with its large Turkish minority, as it's cited as a direct example. As far as the story goes, it worked out and Islamic extremism and the GLA come out severely weakened, if sadly not fully defeated (by the assumed 2040s, the GLA has a strong foothold in mid-Africa, but not much support elsewhere). |
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Parodied in an episode where Bart befriends a Muslim family, and Homer, who'd been watching too many episodes of 24, has a nightmare about Springfield becoming Islamicized, with the Genie from Aladdin transforming American things into stereotypical Muslim things (and turning all music into copies of Cat Stevens albums). | |
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Europa Universalis IV has a decision to reform Andalusia if you conquer a large chunk of Iberia with either a Maghrebi nation or Granada. What's more, Granada has a unique achievement for forming Andalusia and conquering the entirety of Iberia. Given Granada is a Vestigial Empire (the last remnant of the Umayyad Caliphate) holding a mere four provinces, all menaced by much more powerful Christian kingdoms, this is easier said than done. Another, often markedly easier way to enact the trope is by playing the Ottoman Empire, which in the early game is a formidable Rising Empire. A moderately skilled and experienced player could easily seize Vienna and Rome by the early 16th century. |
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Without Warning has a prominent subplot about a US spy investigating a generational conspiracy to Islamicize France, with the full consent and support of the French government. | |
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In the Year 2050: America's Religious Civil War is about this scenario taking place in America, the title being a reference to the year there will supposedly be a Muslim/Arabic majority, leading to a Muslim President (though the book insists Obama already was one) and majority Congress and a Western/Christian La Résistance. The book still takes time to mention how Europe and the Middle East have formed their own Caliphates that will be subordinate to the American one. | |
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Crusader Kings III has a special Decision available for Iberian Muslims called "Avenge the Battle of Tours" which requires the player to not only conquer all of Iberia but also a large chunk of Southern Francia. Doing so grants an achievement appropriately called "Al-Andalus". | |
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In Caliphate by Tom Kratman, Europe is part of a global caliphate, and only the United States is still beyond its reach. | |
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This can happen in Medieval: Total War and Empire: Total War if you manage a Muslim faction, especially the Ottoman Empire. | |
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The Marîd Audran series portrays a world where the West is in decline while the Arab World prospers, resulting in Islam becoming dominant. | |
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Readily done in Crusader Kings II. Aside from player-made empires, the Umayyad Sultanate of Andalusia in 769 almost invariably takes over the remaining Christian regions of Spain and will usually expand well into France unless checked by an interested player (or Francia or the Holy Roman Empire in the rare circumstance that an AI Charlemagne manages to form them.) Crusader Kings III has a special Decision available for Iberian Muslims called "Avenge the Battle of Tours" which requires the player to not only conquer all of Iberia but also a large chunk of Southern Francia. Doing so grants an achievement appropriately called "Al-Andalus". Crusader Kings III and Crusader Kings II: In both games this can be inverted with the crusades and the decision to Form the Empire of Outremer, which merges the player's european culture with the local arabic culture |
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