ABSTRACT
Islam had penetrated Europe and the West since the Middle Ages, first during the invasion by the Arabs in the eighth century from the south. The second invasion by the Ottomans from the East led to the fall of Constantinople into their hands and went as far as the gates of Vienna before it was arrested and thwarted in 1683. The current third penetration is done by immigration, and the demographic inundation of Europe, together with a campaign of da'wa to help spread Islam, aided by a terrorist wave trying to intimidate the West. The waves of recriminations of the Muslim world against the West and Israel have also been expressed in the rise of Muslim parties in Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. The zeal in the Islamic world is directed not only against Israel and the West, but aims primarily to sweep out of power their own Western-allied regimes which are regarded as American stooges.
