False Messiah Quotes
This hatemonger’s writing against the Freemasons and the Jews where used by the American Catholic demagogue, Father Coghlen as a model. In Ireland, he could not obtain many supporters for his hateful and absurd ideas. His own Archbishop John Charles McQuaid said him: “He is not regarded as a man of balanced judgment.” Ireland was the first country to recognize the rights of minority faiths such as Judaism as equal with the majority faith in its constitution, but Fahey tried to organize a movement to change the constitution but could find few followers. Fahey was far less influential in Ireland than he was through Cather Coghlen in America.
Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim spiritual and military leader of Southern Egypt and the Sudan who was leading a jihad against the Egyptian government and the English. Gordon himself was killed shortly thereafter by the Madhi’s followers at the siege of Khartoum.
This quotation illustrates not only the virulent racism of some people of the era, but General Walker had been the commander of the Federal Troops that President Eisenhower had to depend upon in the Little Rock desegregation law enforcement. Radical segregationists held key positions at the time in the military and FBI. When it came to segregation, many of the Federal officials sworn to uphold the law, thought desegregation wrong and positively evil as Walker did, and opposed or undermined the law.
King Constantine I of Greece Saint Sophia is the name of the Great Church in Istanbul (Constantinople) built by the Christians in 537. For Christians it was synonymous with the City of Istanbul which had been captured by the Muslims in 1453 and has been the capitol of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire ever since. A “dream” of some Christians has always been to recapture Constantinople, and this is what the King played upon despite the total, practical impossibility at the time.
