Mythological
force by which countries with
huge amounts of Middle Eastern immigrants become more like the Middle East, which involves somehow mass converting the indigenous population to Islam, and magically changing all the "glorious" western architecture into mosques and minarets. The idea of Islamization is used by
nationalist, or more appropriately,
Nazi, groups in order to
pass xenophobic legislation. Never mind that natives who converted to Islam would barely be touched, if at all, by such policies, which goes to show that "Islamization" is actually used as a grounds to actually attack Arabs. The rightists who constantly shout Islamization are also under the falsehood that all Muslims have the same culture, which is absurd considering that Islam spans from Morocco to Indonesia, and from
India to southern Russia. Ironically, the European Islamophobes almost always overlook the process of Americanization, which actually has been effective in transforming Europe and erasing
alot of the indigenous culture.