...Writing in 1978, Dufourcq (d. 1982), one of the preeminent scholars of European Islam, worried (even then) that historical and cultural revisionism of the established legacy of jihad in Medieval Western Europe might precipitate a recurrence of,

…the upheaval carried out on our continent (i.e., Europe) by Islamic penetration more than a thousand years ago

It is a bitter, tragic irony that the foundational myths of “symbiotic” Andalusian ecumenism and Ottoman “tolerance”, which were central to the genesis of the Eurabian pathology currently on display in Europe, are now also being invoked as salvational fantasies, in the wake of the French riots. Denying any Islamic etiology for the major problems confronting Europe, thus begets more Islam as the “solution”, and accelerates Europe’s seemingly inevitable trajectory towards complete Islamization, with implementation of the Shari’a.