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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

15, 1814 accusing the Masons and
the Carbonari of being organized
for socio-political interference
and the fomentation of hostility
toward religion.
This accusation proved to be
true for members of the Car-

bonari had organized political
ruses and armed uprisings. The
armed uprising that took place in
Macerata on June 25, 1817 was
organized by the Carbonari, but
it was suppressed by security
forces of the Papal State. In 1820,
in Spain and Naples, and in 1821
in Piedmont, revolutionary up-
A publication of Italian Masonry.
risings were organized by the
Carbonari against the Church and
public order.
It is an accepted fact that the Carbonari were founded by the Masons
who engaged in parallel revolutionary activities with them. After the July
Revolution in France in 1830, the organization lost its influence and grad-
ually disappeared. In Italy, it united with the "Young Italy" movement

founded by Guiseppe Mazzini.
Mazzini, a known atheist, had struggled for years against the Papal
State and the Church and finally became a high-ranking Mason who
would become founder of the Italian Union. With the support of two other
prominent Masons, Guiseppe Garibaldi and Count di Cavour, he founded
the Italian Union in 1870, and drew the boundaries of the Papal State
within its present borders. Afterwards, Italy entered a process by which it
became increasingly distanced from religion, and that was to prepare the

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