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Belloc’s Prophecy

Posted by M. C. on March 31, 2018

Interesting more for it’s look at Christianity and the West.

It offered millions relief from their traditional oppression; for example, no Muslim could be a slave

No “Muslim” slaves. Maybe, but there are millions of women and young boy slaves spread out through history that indeed were/are not Muslim.

http://fgfbooks.com/Sobran-Joe/2017/Sobran170714.html

by Joe Sobran
fitzgerald griffin foundation

 

Griffin Internet Syndicate, October 25, 2001

Back in the 1930s, when white men were preparing for another round of mutual slaughter, few of them paid any attention to the Muslim world. They assumed it to be a backward region that history had long since passed by.

One man saw it differently. The great Catholic polemicist Hilaire Belloc, an Englishman of French ancestry, remembered Islam’s past and predicted, in his book The Great Heresies, that it would one day challenge the West again. As late as 1683 its armies had threatened to conquer Europe, penetrating all the way to Vienna; Belloc believed that a great Islamic revival, even in the twentieth century, was altogether possible. Read the rest of this entry »

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