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9/20/08

The 'Eurabia' myth deserves a debunking

globeandmail.com

"The 'Eurabia' myth deserves a debunking

DOUG SAUNDERS

From Saturday's Globe and Mail
September 20, 2008 at 1:57 AM EDT

LONDON — There is Europe and there is “Europe,” the fantasy kingdom wished into being by North American ideologues to turn their silly ideas into action movies.

Once upon a time, this pretend continent was the left's dollhouse, a land where high government spending supposedly led to all manner of social good – so long as you avoided noting that Germany has fewer child-care spaces than the U.S., France has the lowest rate of unionization in the West, Italy's hospitals are filthy and ill-run and most of the continent's spending goes to the already well-off."

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