After the September 11 attacks by Islamic terrorists , all Muslims and the Arab world became perceived by some as threat . Muslim minority populations and Muslim immigration gained new political significance . Scholar José Pedro Zúquete notes that the threat that the Crescent will rise over the continent and the spectre of a Muslim Europe have become basic ideological features and themes of the European extreme right Eurabia had then re-entered into the vocabulary through Bat Ye'or 's work , most notably the book published in 2005 , '' Eurabia : The Euro-Arab Axis '' , although she first used the term in 2002 . Subsequently , the coining of the term has been attributed to her . The conservative historian Niall Ferguson referred to the concept , which he took as the potential future Islamisation of Europe based on demographic facts and ideational lack of the continent
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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