H/T Il Nuovo Arengario
and Marco Tosatti
Dear Readers, Professor Bernardino Monejano
of Buenos Aires offers us the following reflections on the present state of the
European continent.
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Europe is assisting its own suicide
Time Cover, February 28th 2005
We learned from MÉDIAS-PRESSE-INFO that the
European Union is assigning €10 million to finance the Islamic reinterpretation
of European history alongside the “European Quran Project”.
The article reports that in 2007, the European
Commission created the European Research Council (ERC) to back the best
scientific projects on the continent.
In 2019, the ERC approved and funded the European
Quran Project *(EuQu), awarding it nearly €10 million, making it the most
generously funded project, unlike most grants which are much lower.
The goal of the seven-year research project is to
study “how the Quran was translated, adapted and used in Europe between 1150
and 1850”. It is backed by researchers from several European universities, such
as Nantes, Copenhagen and Naples.
But the issue has become much more complicated after
an investigation by the Journal du Dimanche, wherein it is reported that some university students
involved in the project were tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The French MP Fabrice Leggeri has accused the European
Union of using funds meant for scientific study to finance an ideological
rewriting of history, supporting the narrative of a Europe which had evolved in
parallel with Islam - or even indebted to Islam. All this is emerging while many governments - like the French one for decades now and the Polish one of late - have been waging war against the Catholic
identity of their countries.
The situation is this: there are now two Europes. One called
Christendom and another severed from its roots. Albert Camus denounced it many years ago when
he wrote: “The evil geniuses of today’s Europe bear the name of
philosophers: they are called Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche. When we have reached the limit
of their logic, we will recall that there is another tradition: the one that
has never denied what constitutes the greatness of man” (Nouvelles
Littéraires).
The first Europe commemorates its saints, its good
rulers and heroes, including those who defended it from Muslim invasions, such
as Charles Martel, Pelayo, John of Austria and John III Sobieski.
The second Europe, after bathing in the Lethe ** has
forgotten its history, but is now under the leadership of Ursula von Leyden, a
German politician from the Christian Democratic party (very democratic and not
at all Christian) who uses her power and European funds to promote Islam.
Christian Europe has had great figures, now forgotten,
like the Roman Empress, Saint Helena, mother of Constantine, who acknowledged
the freedom of the Church. As Tradition recounts,
Helena, along with some Wise Men and archaeologists, made a journey to the
places where Jesus had lived. They found the Cross upon which Jesus had offered
his life for us and which is now represented by the Empty Cross, symbol of the Risen Lord
and that we will rise with Him.
Then we have Theodosius the Great, who invited his
people to embrace the Catholic faith. Next,
the great bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, defender of justice as well as the Church’s
freedom and independence from political power.
And so many others from ancient times to the present
day, impossible to list in this article they are so numerous,
Throughout this history, Muslims have had their place.
Their influence appears in the Toledo
School of Translators, when Spain served as a barrier and a link between
the West and Islam - according to Manuel García Morente.
Subsequently they had their place in the 13th century,
when Arab philosophers such as Alfarabí, Avicenna and Averroes and Jews such as
Avicebron and Maimonides were studied.
Thus, what Jean Jacques Chevallier wrote is valid: «The Middle Ages, under the profound unity of the spirit which animated it and the ideals inspiring it, shows itself for what it was, in its prodigious fecundity and harmonious diversity, a sign of true freedom, which not only adapts to the rule, but lives by it» (History of Thought, Aguilar, Madrid, 1959, Vol. II, p. 255). This is Christianity, which Europe is now abnegating.
Today, the apostates have a prominent figure in
Macron-Micron-Mason, President of France, who earlier this month gave a speech at
his country’s Grand Lodge. An
unprecedented event marking the first visit by a Head of State in office, under
Masonic obedience. Info Católica headlined its May 7th
article: “Macron calls on Freemasonry to strengthen the defence of
secularism in France.”
In his speech, he urged Freemasons to defend the 1905
secularist law and proclaimed them “ambassadors of secularism,” asking
them “not to use this law against Islam.”
He also rejected “the idea that secularism can
serve as an excuse to marginalize religions, especially Islam.” He also
fought for the approval of a law on medically assisted suicide and euthanasia.
However, twenty days after Macron's statements at the
headquarters of Freemasonry, France has recognized the danger represented by the
Islamist group, the "Muslim Brotherhood", linked to the beneficiaries
of the European Quran Project.
And yesterday the newspaper Infobae headlined
the article: "Macron calls for firm measures against the expansion of
the Muslim Brotherhood in France” following an article that identified them
as a threat to national unity and state institutions.
But the most incredible part of the story is that the President
reproached his ministers for "not having taken into account the gravity
of the situation” caused by a group
that owns 139 places of worship and 55 affiliated groups and is also part of the 70% of Muslims who support
"La France Insoumise", the left-wing force led by Jean-Luc
Mélanchon, in the elections.
Macron is an enemy of life but is also somewhat coherent:
he endorses individual euthanasia for
the old, poor and expendable French and collective euthanasia for France itself,
which, in happier times, was once called the “Eldest Daughter of the Church”.
Notes:
** the river of forgetfulness in Greek Mythology
Bernardino Montejano
Buenos Aires, 27th May 2025.
Translation: Francesca Romana
