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Basic Trope Description: A Dystopia in which Europe is dominated and ruled by Arab Muslims and Christian Europeans have become an oppressed minority (usually created by islamophobes).

  • Straight: 20 Minutes into the Future, Europe is ruled by a single elite of rich Arab Muslims that imposes sharia law on everyone, the majority of Europeans are of Arabic Muslim descent, and white Christians are an oppressed minority that has to live in ghettos.
  • Exaggerated:
    • The whole world is united in a caliphate ruled by a single elite of rich Muslims imposing sharia law and treating not just Christians, but even their own people like shit.
    • The capital of the caliphate may still be on Earth and in Europe, but after the Muslims were successful at Take Over the World, they proceeded to take over the rest of the galaxy and rule a giant interstellar empire now.
    • White Christians were just wiped out by the Muslims, and any white Christian foreigner who is caught traveling through the land has to be killed on sight.
  • Downplayed: Muslims became the majority in Europe and are the people ruling the continent, but they are quite fair to non-Muslims and the system is democratic.
  • Justified:
    • The fictional universe is an Alternate History in which the Arab side won the battle of Poitiers, leading to a Muslim conquest of Europe, the settlement of many Arabs there and an accelerated spread of Islam.
    • The European Muslims just outbred white people by having more children than them, and became the new majority at some point. Therefore, they are now in charge.
  • Inverted:
    • European Christians have taken over the Middle East, became the majority there and oppress the Muslims there with an iron fist.
    • The entire world is under the control of Arab Muslims, except Europe.
  • Subverted: When arriving in Europe, Fish out of Water Bob sees only Arab Muslims on the streets, and all sacred buildings are mosques. But he is only in an Arab-dominated suburb.
  • Double Subverted: ...that is the government quarter of the European Caliphate.
  • Enforced:
  • Averted:
    • Europe isn't Muslim-dominated. Only few token Muslim character(s) is shown.
    • There is no Muslim depiction in Europe. Not even in historically Islamic communities in real-life Europe.
  • Zig-zagged: Some European countries became Muslim-ruled, others not.
  • Parodied:
    • Christians are oppressed and utterly terrorized...but by the bad singing voice of the local muezzin, Arabic being the standard language (while they are still allowed to speak their own languages), having the Fridays off instead of the Sundays (while still being able to have church services on Fridays instead), and having to turn to specialized shops to buy pork.
    • Europe is ruled by Muslims... with Artistic License – Religion.
  • Lampshaded: "They shoot women on the open street for not wearing a burka, they kidnap Christian boys and turn them into Child Soldiers, they forbid even pictures of any kind of living beings..."
  • Defied:
    • The Muslims In Europe refuse to take over the whole continent, and they let European culture wholly assimilate them, start by speaking only their settled languages, localizing their names, and either converting to Christianity or reform their religion to create the separate European Islamic branch.
    • The Arabs think Europe isn't worthy to colonized, instead, they conquer other territories (Such as The Far East).
  • Discussed: "All that fundamentalist oppression won't keep their country run for a long time."
  • Conversed: "Why do all those authors just assume that Muslims can't built a fair government? Does the author of this hate them or what?"
  • Deconstructed: Christians start rioting, and also many Muslims would like their country better with the Christians as their equals. A Muslim movement for their rights crops up and grows every day. Also, the government is mainly concerned with bickering for power between each other and has to fight a violent opposition of Islamic sects outside their own.
  • Implied:
    • Jian, who is Chinese, looks at pictures from Europe. Every famous church of the continent is shown to have been made a mosque.
    • After Alice went on holiday in Europe, Bob realizes that she forgot the hijab they bought for her. He immediately calls his country's embassy to bail her out of torture prison.


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