Churchill Speech on Islam

Subject: Churchill

foresight from a true visionary

I am sending the attached short speech from Winston Churchill,
delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It
would probably match the current views of many of us today.
Expressed,however, in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and his
use of the English language, of which he was a past master, provides us
with a delightful prose that is as close to the truth as one can get.
Sir Winston Churchill was, without doubt, one of the greatest men of the
late 19th and 20th centuries. He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant
journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war
leader and Prime Minister, to whom the Western world must be forever in
debt. Reading his essays shows that the man was a prophet in his own time.

When he died on the 24th. of January 1965, at the grand old age of
90, after a lifetime of service to his country, Churchill was accorded a
State funeral that equalled the burial ceremony of kings...

HERE IS HIS 1899 SPEECH:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism (Islam) 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 which exist wherever the followers of the Prophet
rule or live.

A degraded sensualism which deprives life of its grace and
refinement, as well as, 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 Islam had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern
Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome ..."

Sir Winston Churchill; (The River War, first edition,
Vol. II, pages 248-50)

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