Bat Ye'or

Bat Ye ʾ or ( Hebrew: בת יאור, " daughter of the Nile " ) is a pseudonym of Gisèle Littman British author ( born 1933 in Cairo, Egypt as the Kingdom Gisèle Orebie ). From this and another pseudonym ( Yahudiya Masriya ), she published several books in which she deals with the history of Islam in the Middle East and against a " Islamization " of Europe warns, as a result, the region to a Muslim- Arab colony - described by Littman as " Eurabia " - developed.

Curriculum vitae

Littman was born in 1933 to Jewish parents in Egypt. After the Suez Crisis in 1957 it came as a stateless refugee in London. From 1958 to 1960 she studied at the Institute of Archaeology ( University of London ). In 1959 she married David Littman ( 1933-2012 ) and became a British citizen. In 1960, she moved to Switzerland, where she still lives today. In the years 1961/62 she worked at the University of Geneva since 1969, followed by research and many publications. She is the mother of three children.

Topics

Litt Mans scientific specialty is the history and current situation of non-Muslim minorities under Islamic rule, especially the Christians and Jews. She works in a number of books and articles of the features of dhimmitude out: Underneath she understands the social relations between Muslims and non-Muslims under the premises of the dhimma, the prescribed by the Sharia " protection contract ". These ratios are, according to Littman by systematic discrimination against the " kuffar " (Arabic: non-Muslims, unbelievers ) coined. The pressure to which they were subjected for centuries, according to the thesis of The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, meant that Christianity in its former core areas of North Africa, Asia Minor and the Middle East had degenerated into a marginal phenomenon and that his followers still lived in a state of permanent discrimination and latent threat.

Litt Mans second major issue she describes with the term " Eurabia ". She claims in her book Eurabia: The Euro -Arab Axis, that the political elites of the European Union systematically worked towards at least since 1973, the merger of Europe with the Arab world and would take an " Islamization " of Europe and the destruction of Israel, at least tacitly accepted.