You're welcome to try there Mo.
Posted on 12/28/2007 11:22:03 AM PST by PGR88
WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM - IN 1899!
"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 civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Sorry! I’ve been recovering from a bad cold I came down with on Christmas Eve.
Allright, I didn’t need the Google reference... just seemed to me you somehow doubted the veracity of the poster.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Remember: You can’t believe everything you read, even if Google points at it!
Sorry to hear that. Hope you recover for New Years.
“Never have so many done so little [for Mankind] with so much.”
(Forgive me Winston...)
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dogLucky for us hydrophobic dogs don't blow up buildings.
At the top of the page...
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Lax immigration policies and political correctness over the past generation have removed that defense.
Sure 35 minutes after the thread was posted and only because the Admin Moderator put it there after being informed by me that it was missing.
Providence. Nothing has changed from then until now.
Excuse me, it has changed, and we have let it. I believe they may be smarter than those who really think they are enlightened, the liberals of Western culture.
Sad isn’t it? Sad that Western civilization would allow a culture of doom and suppression to darken our doors.
Churchill knew it then, conservatives know it now.
Our only hope is to stop Islam, and its Western enablers, the modern liberals.
The liberal must think he will win. What a joke.
His writing always reminds me of Mencken.
This is really an amazingly brilliant passage.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world
this says it all.
It is too bad that this is true today. In the early middle ages, the Islamic civilization was thriving. However, the fundamentalist have taken over the religion. Here is an article on the Golden Age of Islamic Civilization. At the time, they were more advanced than the Europeans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
Only now, they may get The Bomb. And they won't be delivering it by some system that we can shoot down. They'll ship it in disguised as lead contaminated Chinese toys.
You're welcome to try there Mo.
Churchill was only twenty-five years old when he wrote that, but he knew what he was talking about. One year earlier he led a cavalry charge at the battle of Omdurman, the greatest victory against Islamic fundamentalism in the nineteenth century.
...And truly by what B16 had said in this quote, he became a profile in courage.
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