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Basic Trope Description: A dystopia in which Europe is dominated and ruled by Arab Muslims and Christian Europeans have become an oppressed minority (usually created by islamophobes).

  • Straight: 20 Minutes into the Future, Europe is ruled by a single elite of rich Muslims that imposes sharia law on everyone, and white Christians are an oppressed minority that has to live in ghettos.
  • Exaggerated: The whole world is united in a caliphate ruled by a single elite of rich Muslims imposing sharia law and treating not just Christians, but even their own people like shit.
  • Downplayed: Muslims became the majority in Europe and are the people ruling the continent, but they are quite fair to non-Muslims and the system is democratic.
  • Justified: The fictional universe is an Alternate History in which the Arab side won the battle of Poitiers, leading to a Muslim conquest of Europe, the settlement of many Arabs there and an accelerated spread of Islam.
  • Inverted:
    • European Christians have taken over the Middle East, became the majority there and oppress the Muslims there with an iron fist.
    • The entire world is under the control of Arab Muslims, except Europe.
  • Subverted: When arriving in Europe, Fish out of Water Bob sees only Arab Muslims on the streets, and all sacred buildings are mosques. But he is only in an Arab-dominated suburb.
  • Double Subverted: ...that is the government quarter of the European Caliphate.
  • Enforced:
  • Averted:
    • Europe isn't Muslim-dominated. Only few token Muslim character(s) is shown.
    • There is no Muslim depiction in Europe. Not even in historically Islamic communities in real-life Europe.
  • Zig-zagged: Some European countries became Muslim-ruled, others not.
  • Parodied:
    • Christians are oppressed in this dystopia...but by the bad singing voice of the local muezzin, Arab being the standard language, having the Fridays off instead of the Sundays (while still being able to have church services on Fridays instead), and having to turn to specialized shops to buy pork.
    • Europe is ruled by Muslims... with Artistic License – Religion.
  • Lampshaded: "They shoot women on the open street for not wearing a burka, they kidnap Christian boys and turn them into Child Soldiers, they forbid even pictures of any kind of living beings..."
  • Defied:
    • The Muslims In Europe refuse to take over the whole continent, and they let European culture wholly assimilate them, start by speaking only their settled languages, localizing their names, and either converting to Christianity or reform their religion to create the separate European Islamic branch.
    • The Arabs think Europe isn't worthy to colonized, instead, they conquer other territories (Such as The Far East).
  • Discussed: "All that fundamentalist oppression won't keep their country run for a long time."
  • Conversed: "Why do all those authors just assume that Muslims can't built a fair government? Does the author of this hate them or what?"
  • Deconstructed: Christians start protesting, and a Muslim movement for their rights crops up and grows every day. Also, the government is mainly concerned with bickering for power between each other and has to fight a violent opposition of Islamic sects outside their own.


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