In 'The flying inn', we read some interesting fiction Chesterton made up about (middle) eastern religions and philosophies influencing British politicians:
'I call it rubbish,' cried Patrick Dalroy, 'when ye put the Koran into the Bible and not the Apocrypha; and I carl it rubbish when a mad person's allowed to put a crescent on St. Paul's Cathedral. I know the Turks are our allies now; but they often were before, and I never heard that Palmerston or Colin Campbell had any truck with such trash.'
'Lord Ivywood is very enthusiastic, I know,' said Pump, with a restrained amusement 'He was saying only the other day at the Flower Show here that the time had come for a full unity between Christianity and Islam.'
'Something called Chrislam perhaps,' said the Irishman.
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