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Giuseppe Mazzini and Count di Cavour: two Master Masons who brought the Papal
State to an end.

foundation for Mussolini's fascist dictatorship in the 1920's.
In short, we can say that Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour were three
prominent leaders who performed important functions in the struggle
against religion in Europe. Mazzini was not only a political leader in the

struggle against religion, he also played a role as an ideologue. His slogan
"every nation a state" was the spark that ignited minority rebellions,
which were to be the cause of the fall of multi-ethnic empires, such as the
Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires. This slogan of Mazzini
alienated people from their sense of religious fraternity; it was a call that
pushed them into ethnic conflict with one another and inspired them to
"fanatical rage." (Surat al-Fath: 26).
The fact that this call came from Masons, indeed, high-ranking Ma-
sons, is certainly significant. According to information from the lodge

publication 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Mazzini rose within the Masonic
lodge, and years later, in 1867, was chosen Master Mason of the Italian

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