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| The Battle for Malta |
There is a generation or maybe two, of young people who cannot distinguish real Islam from the teachings of the Koran to the media indoctrination of the so-called religion of peace. This is partly because the media chooses to highlight a phrase which indicates that the religion of Mohammed is not really practiced by the terrorists, or the Muslim Brotherhood, who are somehow "radicalized". The radicalization of Islam is not an aberrational addition, but part and parcel of the religion, and if anyone takes the time to actually study the Koran and the Hadith, one discovers the truth. In December, one of the Egyptian clerics went live and on video to proclaim that Islam will take over Rome, as it did Constantinople. Why no one notices these things except the great Spencer is beyond me. Why is it that Catholics are so afraid of being truthful about the violence within the original teachings, still being taught to millions of people across the world? Let me give you part of the quotation from this Egyptian
Al-Nas TV from Spencer's website--
Salem Abu Al-Futouh : The Prophet Muhammad told us that Islam would spread. He told us about the Islamic conquest of Constantinople - Turkey of today - and indeed, it was conquered. He also told us about the conquest of Rome, which is Italy. People find this strange. "How can we conquer Italy?" they say. "We are too weak." You should consider the number of Muslims in that great Christian center - another person converts to Islam every day. Check on the Internet how many people want to convert to Islam in the very heart of that papal center of Christianity, on their own turf.
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| The Battle of Lepanto |
Now, conversion is not violence exactly, it is numerical and the fact that strict Muslims do not contracept or abort their babies means that there are more and more young Islamic people and as Christians do contracept and abort, there are less and less Christian youth. However, the message is still one of conquest and the comparison of the take over of Rome with that of Constantinople should warn Christians that there is a danger in the message. Unless Catholic parents stop being so politically correct, unless history is actually taught from the standpoint of truth rather than political correctness or even political agenda, that would include a hatred of the West and a hatred of Christianity, the youth will not be able to withstand conversion and be duped into a religion of hate and violence. Catholic teaching needs to recapture the stand of the Church Militant on this point and Catholics need to understand that those who speak such threats are not insane or exaggerating. Let us not forget that the Catholic Liturgical Calendar celebrates the feast days of Mary, the Mother of God because she intervened in two great battles which stopped the conquest of Europe by the Muslims. One is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, September 12th, a battle spilling over from the 11th, celebrating the Battle of Vienna in 1683, and is why there was the attack planned on September 11th, 2001. Wiki has a nice article on this.
The second feast day is that of the Most Holy Rosary, celebrating Mary's intercession over the Battle of Lepanto, again highlighted here from Wiki. Our Catholic youth can read about these great battles in several excellent books, including those by Anne and Warren Carroll, the great historian, who died last year. I can also suggest teaching the young through the books of Hilaire Belloc, The Crusades, and The Great Heresies. which is actually highlighted here, as it is all online.
Let me end with a section of Belloc's last book mentioned above--and apologies for the weird print.
Cultures spring from religions; ultimately the vital force which
maintains any culture is its philosophy, its attitude toward the universe;
the decay of a religion involves the decay of the culture corresponding to
it_we see that most clearly in the breakdown of Christendom today. The bad
work begun at the Reformation is bearing its final fruit in the
dissolution of our ancestral doctrines_the very structure of our society
is dissolving.
In the place of the old Christian enthusiasms of Europe there
came, for a time, the enthusiasm for nationality, the religion of
patriotism. But self-worship is not enough, and the forces which are
making for the destruction of our culture, notably the Jewish Communist
propaganda from Moscow, have a likelier future before them than our
old-fashioned patriotism.
In Islam there has been no such dissolution of ancestral
doctrine_or, at any rate, nothing corresponding to the universal break-up
of religion in Europe. The whole spiritual strength of Islam is still
present in the masses of Syria and Anatolia, of the East Asian mountains,
of Arabia, Egypt and North Africa.
Sadly, these have proved to be prophetic words. Note the Polish Hussars charging at the Battle of Vienna. We need to teach classes on these heroes again, now.
