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A different take ... from 1899 ... "Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those
by tosseraccount 11y ago
A different take ... from 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. 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."
-Winston Churchill, from "The River War"
source : http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/churchillislam.asp http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/churchillislam.asp
- oblio 11y agoI don't think Churchill is the best benchmark for such matters: "starvation of anyhow underfed Bengalis is less serious than that of sturdy Greeks" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Supplies_from_other_countries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Suppli... And definitely not a benchmark for the 21st century.
- tosseraccount 11y agoChurchill was fighting the Nazis at the time and prioritized shipping to best defeat the enemy.
- oblio 11y agoAt the expense of millions of what he should have considered his own people. I'm stretching the analogy a little here, but I'm sure you can think of another Allied leader that did the same. And the other allied leader has (deservedly) an awful reputation. Definitely a reputation which is worse than Churchill's.
- tosseraccount 11y agoMao? Chang Kai Chek? De Gaulle?