Spiritual Strength Quotes
He did not originate this line. It came from a Turkish religious poet. As a young politician, He was advocating a Muslim government. But Turkey is the only majority Muslim country whose Constitution requires a secular government as a result of the great revolution and reform of Kamal Ataturk who also ended the Caliphate. Erdogan was jailed for 90 days for attacking the secular government and urging a religious replacement. When he served his sentence he stayed away form demagogic and religious appeals to return the state to a theocracy. though some have always suspected him of having that motive.
Plunckett was the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in Britain. He was accused of conspiring against the state by allegedly plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into the country, and for levying a tax on his clergy to support 70,000 men for rebellion. The English have always feared ever since Henry VIII severed England from the Roman Catholic Church, that the Papacy was plotting to restore Catholicism to England and sponsor an invasion of Ireland. And indeed that was true in several cases, but nowhere near as many as the English imagined. In this case, paranoia prevailed, and the trial was pretty much a farce, but he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered which he was.
