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80 Years Ago, Hilaire Belloc Predicted Radical Islam’s Re-Emergence Because Of Secularization
The Federalist ^
| July 20, 2017
| Maureen Mullarkey
Posted on 07/21/2017 4:20:58 AM PDT by NYer
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posted on
07/21/2017 4:20:58 AM PDT
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NYer
To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, Theres always laughter and good red wine. At least Ive always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
― Hilaire Belloc
Catholic ping!
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posted on
07/21/2017 4:21:58 AM PDT
by
NYer
("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
To: NYer
Belloc and Chesterton get far less recognition than they deserve. Thanks for posting!
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07/21/2017 4:30:06 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: NYer
I’ve always loved Belloc’s writings. As I’m back in Abu Dhabi for a few weeks again on a work assignment, this article makes for interesting reading.
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07/21/2017 4:30:11 AM PDT
by
Shark24
To: NYer
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posted on
07/21/2017 4:33:29 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: NYer
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posted on
07/21/2017 4:38:56 AM PDT
by
Yardstick
To: NYer
Belloc saw Islam as less a new religion than a heresy that selected among Christian doctrines. True. Mohammed read both the OT and the NT. He decided the tenets of his own religion off of both Judaism and Catholicism adding his own moon god twist.
So, yeah, the muslin religion is a fabricated heresy.
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posted on
07/21/2017 4:42:58 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
To: Joe 6-pack
“Belloc and Chesterton get far less recognition than they deserve.” To Belloc’s prose was matched Chesterton’s poetry, in The Flying Inn https://archive.org/details/flyingin00chesuoft about social rebels in a Sharia England who take to the back country with a wagon, a giant round of Chedder cheese and the last cask of rum in England, to set up a suddenly appearing & disappearing pub.
To: Shark24
To: zot; Interesting Times; SeraphimApprentice; xzins
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07/21/2017 5:50:01 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: NYer
I have little doubt that Islam is the Beast religion of Revelation.
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posted on
07/21/2017 5:51:14 AM PDT
by
afsnco
(18 of 20 in AF JAG)
To: nobody in particular
![](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/indianajones/images/2/27/Belloq.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080517003902)
Belloq
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07/21/2017 6:16:19 AM PDT
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SGCOS
To: NYer
There was a period back in the 80s when I read several of Belloc's books, and he seemed very prescient about many things, including the possibility of a resurgence of Islam.
Within the church, he has almost entirely fallen out of favor, and is little-read these days. Belloc's traditionalism and orthodoxy are now very much the exception.
To: NYer; Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ..
Your next assignment:
Go read G.K. Chesterton's The Flying Inn.
But Ivywood, Lord Ivywood,
he rots the tree like ivy would...
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07/21/2017 6:50:14 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: CharlesOConnell
Bah, you beat me to it!
Spoiler: In The Flying Inn he cannot be prosecuted for selling alcohol because he gives it away for free...
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07/21/2017 6:51:36 AM PDT
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grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: NYer
Great essay, and so sadly true.
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07/21/2017 6:56:18 AM PDT
by
AustinBill
(consequence is what makes our choices real)
To: Steve_Seattle
"The secular West's own freedoms and God-given rights are deadlocked in the wreckage of beliefs it has discarded." Look like we might get what we wanted: good and hard.
Lord have mercy.
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posted on
07/21/2017 7:02:45 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(They said what's down is up, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
To: GreyFriar
Thanks for the ping to this excellent article.
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07/21/2017 7:54:24 AM PDT
by
zot
To: phormer phrog phlyer
Certainly plan on it. I tend to pray too a lot at my age (63) no matter where I’ at. :)
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07/21/2017 8:23:22 AM PDT
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Shark24
To: NYer
What a healthy immune system does, is recognize what is “me” and attack anything which damages “me”. AIDS cripples the immune system’s ability to attack damaging foreign organisms. The host ultimately dies, not from what AIDS does directly, but from all the invading diseases which the immune system no longer is able to fight off.
Multiculturalism, which demands us to be timid about being proud of Western Civilization, which declares it evil to preferentially desire the welfare of our own people, is the societal analogue of AIDS.
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posted on
07/21/2017 9:30:01 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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