Churchill had foresight about Mohammedanism.

[10ClarionSt]

This speech was delivered in 1899.

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 248-50 London )

Churchill saw it coming...............

[humbersloop]

He was a regular on Chatterbank in his day...


.....I miss Winnietwofingers posts

[sandyRoe]

He wrote that in a book published in the 19th Century when England was fighting to control Egypt and the Sudan. Could he have been slightly biased?

[sandyRoe]

On the one hand he says that there is a fearful, fatalistic, apathy about the Muslim, and on the other, that far from being moribund it is a militant and proselytising faith. Is he having it both ways?

[naomi24]

He didn't foresee that thousands, particularly in Africa, are now leaving Islam.

[hc4361]

Was he right about the EU?

"....Yet all the while there is a remedy which, if it were generally and spontaneously adopted, would as if by a miracle transform the whole scene, and would in a few years make all Europe, or the greater part of it, as free and as happy as Switzerland is today.

What is this sovereign remedy?

It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

In this way only will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living.

The process is simple.

All that is needed is the resolve of hundreds of millions of men and women to do right instead of wrong, and gain as their reward, blessing instead of cursing....."

Zurich, 19th September 1946

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html