[Republic]

There was once another Churchill on the scene who minced NO words when it came to describing the horrors of the Muslim faith taken to the nth degree. Below is a sampling of Sir Winston's words..my favorite lines are underlined!

—Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

Did Sir Winston have an understanding of the dangers of this faith, or what?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Amazing, a Churchill back in 1899? Was he an ancestor of the Churchill of World War II? Two Churchills, visionaries of two world wars.

[Publius6961]

Many of us have read this before, hence know better.

Posting the words here feels precisely like casting pearls before swine.
Just read their pathetic mantras, devoid of thought and empty of historical perspective...

The feeling ones...

[texasbluebell]

Take a look at this, which someone brought to my attention the other day. Even de Tocqueville nearly 200 years ago knew what was up with islam:

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"I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the
conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as
deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal
cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less
absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are
in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of
decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself."

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America