Thursday night I attended a talk by noted Islam scholar Bat Ye'or. She is out promoting her new book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.

Attendance was pretty good - about 100 people, although not many young people. The content of the talk was very similar to the previous Ye'or appearance I attended, reported on at length here. If you are interested in an in-depth description, I'd suggest reading that post.

Ye'or covered the broad concepts - how the elites of Europe have aligned their future with the interests of the Arab States through the Euro-Arab Dialogue as a way of countering the power of the United States. As a result, they have failed to achieve any result, but have (perhaps) sealed their own fates as Muslim immigration, low native European birth-rates and an inability or unwillingness to confront the problems they've created have taken hold.

Ye'or is a very important thinker with a very important message at this moment in history. I strongly recommend familiarizing yourself with her message.

She was ready to answer questions and seemed to enjoy answering them at length.

Following are three links to the audio of the talk. A few notes on the audio:

1) Everything was recorded on my little hand-held recorder so the quality is poor by professional standards. Ye'or herself speaks with a very thick accent and doesn't always speak into what was a very finicky microphone which makes it even more difficult to understand. Download at your own risk.

2) The first part of the recording is particularly poor because, unbeknownst to me, the recorder was set at that super-slow speed that uses less tape but makes the recording sound even worse than it should. I noticed this and corrected it so it does get better for parts 2 and 3.

3) Fortunately, the first voice you will hear is Charles Jacobs of the David Project. He annunciates well as he vamps for a few minutes waiting for Ye'or to arrive. As always with Jacobs, I recommend giving him a listen.

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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3