Posted on 12/29/2014 10:30:31 AM PST by C19fan
bovine feces.
The very first act of the new US Senate should be to ask the Brits for a return of the Churchill bust.
(The second act should be to put in a call to the Canuks about a certain pipeline.)
You forgot The Sons of the Desert!
Those words were published eight years before his alleged letter to Lady Litton.
She was probably joking. As you pointed out, there was a vogue for all things “Oriental” at the time (a term that referred to the Middle East and not to Asia). This was the result of the Muslims having been knocked back enough so that there was no longer much piracy in the Mediterranean and so that Europeans could visit the Holy Land again.
Much historical Biblical research, not to mention archaeology, was developed as a result of European travels to the ME. They regarded it as very backwards, btw, but they found the clothing, animals (camels!) and customs very exotic, with the result that painters, poets and simply tourists flocked there and bought stuff that they either wore or dragged back to England, France, etc.
sounds like she mistook his ‘interest’ in Islam - when he was writing the book he’s still hated for - against Islam -
and why one of the first acts as Pres_ent that the Boy King did was to return the bust of Churchill that had been a gift from England. (Actually, wouldn’t the gift belong to US the American people? He had no right to return it - not to mention total inslut - ahaha, misspelled “insult” or Freudian slip?)) -
Quite right.
That group of admirers also includes the future president of the U.S.
Works for me, but doesn’t seem likely to happen in this alternate reality we find ourselves living in.
You are certainly correct
If you are referring to the 1940 origination of the central London mosque which some attribute to Churchill in order to bolster this argument…let me add this for other readers.
It appears that event was instigated by another government official, Lord Lloyd. Lloyd sent a memo to Churchill pointing out the British empire “actually contains more Moslems than Christians” and it was inappropriate that there should be no central place of worship for them.
Significantly, it was the 1940 War Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Churchill, which allocated £100 for a site for the mosque. There is the argument that Churchill - ever the politician and one of the few who had a clear vision of the immediate peril England faced and its resultant need for allies - agreed the mosque would serve as a tribute to the thousands of Indian Muslim soldiers who had died defending the British Empire.
Such action clearly does not support a claim that Churchill admired Islam, particularly given strong evidence to the contrary
I think this attribution needs to be investigated.
I always under the impression that Churchill saw Islam as retrograde.
Warren Dockter, a scholar who discovered lady Gwendoline's letter during his research at Cambridge for his book Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East, has dismissed the speculations of Churchill's intentions to convert to Islam and has argued that it was only a mere fascination and that Churchill "never seriously considered converting." He asserted that Churchill's folks worried in vain. Churchill's views "were an often paradoxical and complex combination of imperialist perceptions composed of typical orientalist ideals fused with the respect, understanding and magnanimity he had gained from his experiences in his early military career," The Telegraph quoted the scholar who clearly told The Independent that Churchill by that time had already become an atheist. [Lost letter by sister-in-law indicates Winston Churchill's propensity towards Islam]
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