Europe especially Mediterreanan Europe has bore the brunt of repeated invasions of force and cultural ideas from the East: Egypt, Hittites, Persians etc.
Europe has been on a quest to delink itself from the East since antiquity. You can see this in the Virgin birth of Jesus to show a delink from the East. The gospel's by Luke and Mark are the first attempts to fashion a delinked religion from the East in order to unify Europe under the Roman imperial rule. They needed that to fight the Goths and other Germanic tribes.
Even Hitler's Nazism is a modern attmpt to do the same with his slogan "Without Rome, Without Jude,...."
We see the NATO intervention in Libya as an attempt to reassert old Pax Romana on North Africa as a new recoqusita of those areas from Islam.
But for Islam North Afirca would be part of current Europe.
Europe has been on a quest to delink itself from the East since antiquity. You can see this in the Virgin birth of Jesus to show a delink from the East. The gospel's by Luke and Mark are the first attempts to fashion a delinked religion from the East in order to unify Europe under the Roman imperial rule. They needed that to fight the Goths and other Germanic tribes.
Even Hitler's Nazism is a modern attmpt to do the same with his slogan "Without Rome, Without Jude,...."
We see the NATO intervention in Libya as an attempt to reassert old Pax Romana on North Africa as a new recoqusita of those areas from Islam.
But for Islam North Afirca would be part of current Europe.