[BITList] Fw: Sir Winston Churchill - wrote this in 1899

[John Davison]

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Sir Winston Churchill 1875 - 1965 
 
This is amazing. And even more amazing is that this hasn't been published long 
before now.
 
CHURCHILL ON ISLAM
 
Unbelievable, but the speech below was written in 1899!  (check Wikipedia - The 
River War)
 
I am sending the attached short speech from Winston Churchill, delivered by him 
in 1899 when he was ayoung soldier and journalist. It probably sets out the 
current views of many but expressed in the wonderfulChurchillian turn of phrase 
and use of the English language, of which he was a past master. Sir 
WinstonChurchill 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 his debt. He was a prophet inhis own time; He 
died on 24 January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and, after a lifetime of 
service tohis country, was accorded a State funeral.
 
HERE IS THE SPEECH:
 
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides 
the fanatical frenzy, whichis as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, 
there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects areapparent 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. Thefact 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 agreat power among men. 

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the 
religion paralyses the social developmentof 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 everystep; and were it 
not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science 
against whichit had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might 
fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
 
Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 
248-50 London )
Churchill saw it coming...............
     
   
 
  
     
 
 
 
 
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