The West's debt to Islam -- zero.

The cultural superiority of the Middle East in relations to Europe did not begin with Islam’s entry into the area. In fact, it ended with it. One of the great riddles of history is how this once-dynamic region could become the world’s number one problem spot. It so happens that this decline coincides with the region’s Islamization, although some would claim that it had already started before this. Islam’s much-vaunted “Golden Age” was in reality just the twilight of the conquered pre-Islamic cultures, an echo of times passed.

It is true that no civilization exists in a vacuum. Modern Western civilization owes much to Egyptians, Persians, Sumerians, Byzantines, Assyrians, Jews, Indians and Chinese. We owe little, if anything to Islam.

In his article, Fjordman also discusses the chilling European sellout of the European peoples.

Will the American political class sell out too? If the determined refusal to stop illegal immigration is the canary in the mine, the answer is most assuredly, "Yes."

"The Twin Myths of Eurabia." By Fjordman, The Brussels Journal, 7/23/06.