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The article below is not new and I have seen it before. You might find 
it interesting.
It has been sent to me by the London RMA. Via my brother in law
frank


On Sunday, 17 August 2014, 16:26, "citymarine at aol.com" 
<citymarine at aol.com> wrote:


                            *Winston Churchill 1899.*
                            *
                            **/"Individual Muslims may show splendid
                            qualities, but the influence of the religion
                            paralyses the social development of those
                            w/**/h/**/o follow it.  No stronger
                            retrograde force exists in the world."/*
                            */
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                                **


                            *CHURCHILL ON ISLAM*

                            Unbelievable, but the speech below was
                            written in 1899... (check Wikipedia - The
                            River War).

                            The attached short speech from Winston
                            Churchill, was delivered by him in 1899 when
                            he was a young soldier and journalist. It
                            probably sets out the current views of many,
                            but expresses in the wonderful Churchillian
                            turn of phrase and use of the English
                            language, of which he was a past master. 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 British
                            Prime Minister, to whom the Western world
                            must be forever in his debt.  He was a
                            prophet in his own time. He died on 24th
                            January 1965, at the grand old age of 90
                            and, after a lifetime of service to his
                            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, 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 Muslims 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 ..."
                            *Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River
                            War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250
                            London*).
                            *Churchill saw it coming......*









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