Oh excellent, Linda! Here’s someone reading from Churchill’s book.. written in 1899? (numbers...) (it’s only 4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0aF0UXzYQ
Words back then may not have the same meaning-ish today, you know? So did he mean backwards, perverted, deviant?
Or this is an older definition of retrograde “revert to an earlier and inferior condition.”
I think he just meant plain old bad and evil, unwilling to come into the even the 18th century, let alone the 19th, the 20th, the 21st. They are stuck in the barbarism of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries.
Petey
Islam started around 700 AD. Its barbarism was and is unique even when compared to others of antiquity.