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Did Mr. Magdi Allam followed the RCIA for 1 year prior to the baptism?Follow-up on this post with another essay from Spengler.
The mustard seed in global strategy
With Pope Benedict’s baptism of Magdi Allam, a prominent Muslim-born journalist who converted to Catholicism during Easter services, the global agenda is changed through the soul of a single man. Since September 2001, the would-be wizards of Western strategy have tried to conjure variations of Islamic “reform” or “democracy”. None of this matters now, for as Magdi Allam tells us, the matter is not to persuade Muslims to act like liberal Westerners, but to convince them to cease to be Muslims. (Mar. 25, '08 )
The Pope also has in reserve the European youth movement “Communione e Liberazione”, which he has nurtured for decades. Forty-thousand members turned out in 2005 when the then Cardinal Ratzinger addressed a memorial service in Milan for the movement’s founder. European Christianity may be reduced to a few coals glowing in the ashes, but it is not dead, only marginalized. If the Catholic youth of Europe are offered a great task - to evangelize the Muslims whose restlessness threatens to push Europe into social chaos - many of them may heed the call