"If the Ottoman Turks, whom Europe has for hundreds of years seen as the symbol of Islam, were one day to abandon Islam, it would be a strange revenge of history. This, however, is a revenge that our children or grandchildren will live to see.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, whom Lawrence of Arabia called a 'prophet', was a British spy who dedicated his life to driving the Turks out of Arab lands and reforming Islam. He sought to collapse Islam from within through Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh, whom modern Islamists today see as their leaders. Blunt served the Jesuits, to whom Pope Francis also belongs. He was Churchill’s mentor. He was a close friend of Egyptian, Irish, and Indian nationalists as well as the Young Turks. He played a major role in the separation of Egypt from the Ottomans. He lived long enough to see the fall of Sultan Abdulhamid, whom he viewed as his greatest rival, and the Arab revolt. Without knowing Wilfrid S. Blunt and his connections, it is impossible to understand either the Islamic policy of the Jesuits and Britain or today’s Islamic world...