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3	[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurabia 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 ThemeParkVersion [[{{Qurac}} of it]]. In most scenarios, this new state links up with a MiddleEasternCoalition to form a new Euro-Asian caliphate.
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5	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.
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7	Bear in mind that a lot of the mindset on this trope involves a belief that AllMuslimsAreArab, 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}}.
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9	Usually involves a BadFuture. May be part of an AuthorTract or FilibusterFreefall. Compare and contrast other region-specific cases of TakeOverTheWorld (AmericaTakesOverTheWorld, RussiaTakesOverTheWorld, ChinaTakesOverTheWorld, JapanTakesOverTheWorld, etc.) as well as {{Americasia}} on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
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11	As arguments over the actual plausibility of this are often prone to FlameBait, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease.
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18	* The Islamic Europan Union in a hypothetical extended map of the FictionalEarth of Strangereal from ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' is inspired by this - [[https://i.imgur.com/frNyH.jpeg just look at it]]! The capital is Lutetia (Paris), and other settlements include Qurtuva and Andalus. (Despite this, there are also FantasyCounterpartCulture versions of Italy, Greece, and Scandinavia, and the region that ''would'' be Scandinavia is part of [[GloriousMotherRussia Yuktobania]].)
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22	* In ''Literature/{{Flashback}}'' by Creator/DanSimmons, Europe has been taken over by global caliphate.
23	* In ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'' by Creator/TomKratman, Europe is part of a global caliphate, and only the United States is still beyond its reach.
24	* ''The Partisan'', an explicitly white-supremacist novel, involves a white French woman slaughtering her way through a Paris that has been taken over by Islamists.
25	* Michel Houellebecq's ''Literature/{{Soumission}}'' features a France electing a Muslim as president, who then proceeds to enact his radical agenda.
26	* ''L'An 330 de la Republique'' by Maurice Spronk ([[OlderThanTelevision written in 1894]]) features a morally decadent West being taken over by a more dynamic Islamic world, in a TakeThat favoring his neo-Nietzschian ideals.
27	* ''The Genie of Londonistan'' tells the story of a future where England has been taken over by Islamists and the protagonist is the victim of a terror attack whose consciousness has been transferred into the body of a drive-by shooting victim.
28	* ''The Islamic Conquest of Europe 2020'' tells the story of Europe's gradual fall into Islamism in the not-too-distant future.
29	* ''The Camp of the Saints'', written in 1973, portrays France, and later the rest of Europe, being overtaken by immigrants from the third world, although in this example, the takeover originates from India, rather than the Middle East.
30	* Inspired by ''The Camp of the Saints'', french writer Renaud Camus would write two books, ''L'Abécédaire de l'in-nocence'' ("Abecedarium of no-harm") and ''Le Grand Remplacement'' ("The Great Replacement"), warning that "replacist elites"are conspiring against the White French and Europeans in order to replace them with Muslim populations from Africa and the Middle East—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the European birth rate.
31	* The ''Literature/MaridAudran'' series portrays a world where the West is in decline while the Arab World prospers, resulting in Islam becoming dominant.
32	* ''Literature/TheMirage'' is an AlternateHistory 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. [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 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.]] [[spoiler:Later it's revealed that the entire setting was created as a result of a wish made to a {{Djinn}}.]]
33	* Douglas Murray writes in his book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Death_of_Europe The Strange Death Of Europe]]'' that he thinks that European civilisations as we have known it will not survive due to a combination of mass migration of new peoples into Europe specifically Muslims in The Middle East along with low birth rates from the European population.
34	* In ''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'', this future happens a thousand years early, as TheBlackDeath 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.
35	* In Pamela Sargent's ''Venus'' trilogy of SF novels, primarily about the terraforming of Venus in a ColonizedSolarSystem future, Earth is largely Muslim, although the regime isn't at all tyrannical.
36	* Way back in TheFifties, ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' featured a constant state of tension between [[TheGoodKingdom Narnia]] and [[TheEmpire Calormen]]. Narnia is a MagicalLand patterned on Christian virtues and European folklore, while Calormen is a cruel and expansionist nation-state located in TheSavageSouth and [[ArabianNightsDays patterned on]] the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' stories. ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', Creator/CSLewis's final installment in the series, centres on a Calormene invasion of Narnia. In TheFifties, there was less anxiety than there is today about Muslim presence in Europe, so the Calormene threat draws more on the historical spectre of Moorish and Ottoman incursions into Europe centuries ago -- which makes sense, considering the series's MedievalEuropeanFantasy nature. Moreover, the polytheistic Calormene faith is closer to UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast's [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology pre]]-[[Myth/CanaaniteMythology Abrahamic]] pantheons and to medieval misconceptions about Islam than to Islam itself. On the other hand, Lewis does sneak in a few jabs at politically correct multiculturalism, like when LesCollaborateurs insist that the Calormene god Tash and the Narnian god Aslan are one and the same (Tash is explicitly shown to be a GodOfEvil).
37	* In the dystopian novel ''Literature/TheNotreDameDeParisMosque'' by Elena Chudinova, Muslims take over western Europe, impose Shariah law over it, and shut Europeans who did not convert to Islam into ghettoes.
38	* ''Literature/InTheYear2050AmericasReligiousCivilWar'' 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 LaResistance. 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.
39	* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_for_the_Assassin Prayers for the Assassin]]'' is another book where the premise is applied to the US, which apart from Mormon Utah and South Wyoming, the "Nevada Free State", and the ostensibly independent Bible Belt, has somehow become majority Muslim by 2040 due in large part to a second American civil war in the 2010s, nuclear/dirty bombs being used against New York, Washington DC and Mecca by Israeli agents [[spoiler: but not really, turns out it was Islamic extremists all along]] and celebrity conversions to Islam, including country singer [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed "Shania X"]].
40	* ''Literature/WithoutWarning'' 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.
41	* In the "WhatIf'' counter-factual novel written by actual historians, one of the AlternateHistory scenarios describes the Battle of Tours being won by the Muslim invaders of Spain. After the defeat of the Frankish army, the Caliphate keeps bringing in more forces across the Mediterranean, ultimately conquering most of Western Europe and surrounding the Byzantine Empire on two sides, while reintroducing infrastructure and central governance absent in those areas since the Romans. When European explorers sail to the new world, they're carrying Korans, not Bibles, ultimately turning Islam into the single largest religion on Earth.
42	* The book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_Blood Lion's Blood]]'' (and its sequel, ''Zulu Heart'') by Steven Barnes is a AlternateHistory world where Islamic Africa is the center of the world while Europe is considered tribal and primitive; white slaves are captured from Europe and taken from there to America, which has been colonized by Africans.
43	* The specific blend of CultureChopSuey in ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' generally leans towards this trope--the main religious text is called the "Orange Catholic Bible" and the government is mostly based on the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, but the biggest cultural influence on the Sublime Padishah Empire seems to be Islam.
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47	* ''TabletopGame/GURPSInfiniteWorlds'': Exaggerated on Caliph: The printing press was invented 600 years early, leading to an Islamic conquest of the world.
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51	* Readily done in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII''. 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 UsefulNotes/{{Charlemagne}} manages to form them.)
52	** ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'' 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".
53	** ''Videogame/CrusaderKingsIII and Videogame/CrusaderKingsII'': 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
54	* ''[[VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis 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 VestigialEmpire (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.
55	** Another, often markedly easier way to enact the trope is by playing the Ottoman Empire, which in the early game is a formidable RisingEmpire. A moderately skilled and experienced player could easily seize Vienna and Rome by the early 16th century.
56	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'': In the sequel, the totally-not Al-Qaeda GLA ([[HarsherInHindsight 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.
57	** 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.
58	** A popular GameMod called ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheReds'' 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).
59	* This can happen in ''VideoGame/MedievalTotalWar'' and ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'' if you manage a Muslim faction, especially the Ottoman Empire.
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63	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
64	** Parodied in an episode where Bart befriends a Muslim family, and Homer, who'd been watching too many episodes of ''Series/TwentyFour'', has a nightmare about Springfield becoming Islamicized, with the Genie from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' transforming American things into stereotypical Muslim things (and turning all music into copies of Music/CatStevens albums).
65	** In another episode, "Days of Future Past", Milhouse is living in Michigan[[note]]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[[/note]], which in the future is under shariah law, and is forced to wear a hijab.
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