Doug Saunders: Globe And Mail

Muslim Tide Alfred Knopf Canada Dept: So writes Doug Saunders in The Myth of the Muslim Tide Alfred Knopf Canada , to be released next week. He is the European bureau chief of the Globe and Mail, and author of the much-acclaimed Arrival City about the sprawling slums of Mumbai, Rio, London, Paris, Chongqing, Los Angeles, etc. the first stop in the mass migration of millions from rural to urban areas , according to The Star. There, conspiracy theories about an Arab/Muslim takeover of the continent Eurabia helped propel far-right political parties to prominence and it started in the far reaches of the Internet and the mutterings of the political right, then in increasingly mainstream and mass-market venues and has since entered the central corridors of European and American politics. Saunders was living in the U.S. during the Sept. 11 attacks and in London during the July 7, 2005, subway bombing. He has reported extensively on the war on terror and on Islamophobia in Europe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.