On July 22, 2011 the far-right Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik - who was disguised as a policeman - detonated a bomb near the government headquarters in Oslo, killing 8 people, and the killer then moved to Utoya Island, where he fired for an hour and a quarter About 600 participants in the summer camp of the Workers' Youth League, causing the deaths of 69 people, most of them teenagers.

That incident became one of the most painful and bloodiest massacres in the country's history after the World War. Breivik published a long letter of 1500 pages, in which he claimed that he was trying to carry out what he called "counter jihad";

With the aim of "preventing the cultural suicide of the European continent" which lives as a whole under the siege of infiltrating aliens, accusing the European elite of colluding with the enemies of Europe infiltrating the ideology of multiculturalism.

"Arabia"

Breivik used the term "Arabia" - a new political term carved from the Arabization of Europe - which describes an extreme right-wing anti-Muslim conspiracy theory that claims that global entities are led by European powers - especially France - and Arab countries, seeking to Islamize and Arabize Europe , undermining its culture and denying its Europeanness.

The term was used for the first time by the British writer Gisele Littman, who also calls herself "Pat Yeur" or "Daughter of the Nile", and specializes in the affairs of Christian and Jewish minorities in the Middle East. The Triumvirate in 1956 - The alleged "Arabism" of European policies aims to strengthen Europe's position vis-à-vis America by harmonizing the interests of the old continent with the Arab countries.

Littmann assumes that events such as the oil crisis during the 1973 war and the Euro-Arab dialogue committees constitute a common position between European and Arab countries in confronting America and Israel, and says that Europe has transformed from a Judeo-Christian civilization with a secular character in the post-enlightenment era, to a civilization subject to the ideology of jihad And Islam, as she put it.

Littmann believes that the issues of anti-Americanism and Israel constitute the essence of cooperation between Arab governments and Islamists on the one hand, and European politicians on the other.

In that context, the "local traitors" facilitate the invasion of Europe by Muslims, ridding it of European culture and replacing it with Arabism and Islam. Breivik also claimed the bloody Norwegian attacker and other extremists, including the Christchurch attacker against Muslims in New Zealand.

The extremist theory states that the European elites conspire to stimulate the migration of Muslims from their countries to the European continent, and the perception of General Charles de Gaulle (died 1970) - who led the French resistance to the Nazis and became president of France after the war - a traitor to Western civilization for money, and described by the author that he withdrew from Algeria to grant freedom to an Arab Muslim country at the expense of the French and Christian settlers who had to withdraw to France.

Littmann was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Cairo. Her Italian father fled Italy during Mussolini's rule. Her mother was from France. The family emigrated in 1957 and arrived in London as stateless refugees.

Littmann is credited with using the term "dhimma" in contexts outside its historical scope, as she discusses it in detail in her book "Islam and Dhimma... When Civilizations Collide", and claims that the notion of dhimma can only be understood in "the context of jihad, radical conquest, and permanent war against non-Muslims."

The idea of ​​“Arabia” represents a great inspiration for many conspiracy theories on the far western right, and Littmann portrayed Islam in her book as a parasitic, oppressive and barbaric religion, and sees that the European-Arab axis has turned from a secondary discussion group to the engine of Islamization of the continent, where European political, economic and cultural institutions are transformed into tools "jihadism".

The arsenal of far-right ideas

The issue of the demographic threat appears to be the basis of these right-wing theories, and its theorists warn that Islam - at some point in the future - will take over Europe, or, as Bernard Lewis said, "Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century."

The "Arabia theory" joins a group of the arsenal of ideas of the extreme nationalist right in the old continent, and is linked to the "Great Replacement" of the French right-wing thinker Renaud Camus.

This theory consists of two main components;

The first is demographic projections that say that due to mass immigration and high fertility rates;

People of non-European descent are on their way to outnumbering the indigenous population of Europe, and this would help them impose their culture and religion on the continent.

On the other hand, Camus believes that the "Great Replacement" will occur as a result of a conspiracy carried out by "invisible power", the ruling elites of capitalist pro-globalization that support mass migration processes in order to build a new world in which all national, ethnic and cultural peculiarities disappear, and becomes capable of being controlled and shaped to meet needs of the globalized economy.

The far-right perspective uses the term “cultural Marxism” to refer to a conspiracy theory that claims that Western Marxism is the basis of ongoing academic and intellectual efforts to subvert Western culture from within, and the philosophical “Frankfurt School” is held responsible for inspiring modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness, claiming that there It has been a persistent and deliberate attempt of Western society through a planned culture war that has been undermining traditional conservative Christian values ​​and seeking to replace them with culturally liberal values ​​since the 1960s.

Within the arsenal of the extremist right's ideas, the novel "The Camp of the Saints" occupies a prominent place.

It theorizes the destruction of Western civilization through mass immigration from the Third World to France and the West, and begins an invasion of France by starving Indian refugees.

The novel "The Camp of the Saints" by the French author Jean Raspel, published in 1973 (Al-Jazeera)

Its French author, Jean Raspel (born 1925), depicts the collapse of Western civilization following huge waves of Third World immigrants, as hordes of immigrants enter from the south and attack the territory of France and target French citizens with the support of leftist and anarchist Western groups, establish pro-immigrant governments, share homes with indigenous people and force the British Queen On marrying her son to a Pakistani woman, the story is also told in Switzerland, the last stronghold of the Western world, which appears as a rogue state in the new regime as a result of not opening its borders to immigrants.

And if these extremist right-wing ideas have been used - in many literary and intellectual works - for decades, they were marginal and did not turn into a sweeping political current, and became prevalent in the media and even academic corridors only in recent years, in which the hard right turned into a political current that reaches power or almost in many European countries.