Hi...please try to find fault with this Political Incorrect
speech made by Winston Churchill over 100-years ago. I believe if he were alive
today he would still be sounding the alarm.
Snopes is silent on the issue.
Winston Churchill
1899.
"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."
This is
amazing. Even more amazing is that this hasn't been published long before
now.
CHURCHILL ON ISLAM
Unbelievable, 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.