Winston Churchill writing about Islam
Bookworm on Feb 13 2010 at 9:59 pm | Filed under: Islam
Winston Churchill wrote the following in a book published in 1899 about the Sudan. It is remarkably prophetic (emphasis mine):
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. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die 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 civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Our government would do well to remember the nature of the forces arrayed against us, and to remember Churchill’s advice about recognizing the enemy sooner, rather than later:
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
But I think our current leader would be happy to live as a slave, because he does not see much in our culture that is worth saving by fighting. I know that Obama suffers from a vast historical ignorance, one he reveals on a regular basis, so I doubt he has more than a passing familiarity with Churchill’s life or thinking. Nevertheless, it was entirely fitting that our Quisling, Vichy-esque President, as one of his first acts in office, got rid of the Churchill reminder occupying space in his office, and sent it on an ignominious trip aback to its land of origin.
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Unfortunately our president doesn’t respect the wisdom of Churchill.
Wasn’t one of the initial actions of the Obama WH to send back to England a bust of Churchill?
Uh …never mind. That was in the post. Guess I should have read more closely.
What, Z!? You’re not reading my every word as if it’s a pearl, dropped from a goddess’s mouth? I’m shocked. Absolutely shocked.
Unfortunately, the oil-rich semi-savages of Araby and Iran can buy all the science they need to carry out their tedious, never-ending jihad against Jews, women, homosexuals, civilization and decency.
Obama is inviting—unwittingly, I hope (he can’t hate America THAT much, can he?)—a second 9/11 against us. If/when that happens, I pray that all bets will be off when it comes to America and how she deals with the existential threat posed by Islam.
I think Obama does hate the USA of our knowledge that much. And I think he is a muslim at heart. Many of his actions on foreign policy suggest this. The congruence of leftist thought and the underpinnings of Islam that one of this weeks Watcher of Weasles submissions illustrated bares this out.
I’m reading Carlo D’Este’s “Warlord”. Churchill’s life in war. He was of course highly egotistical, but also increadibly insiteful and blunt. We are in for a long ride.
Al
Thanks for pointing out the historical ignorance of our president. The historical amnesia is a plague on this country’s schools and people. We have exchanged deep knowledge for shallow nostalgia, and now we are paying a heavy price for our shallowness.
Winston Churchill on Islam…
This is prescient: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……
Winston Churchill on Islam…
This is prescient: 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……
Churchill was a wise man. We have had our share of men cut from that cloth in our past (none recent, except perhaps for The Gipper). What our current administration and most pols fail to recognize is that islamic terror is not a new problem, and that it’s not a result of Dubya’s foreign policy and cowboy diplomacy or poor folk in the middle east. It’s a result of religious idealogy.
These United States began dealing with islamic pirates soon after we achieved our independence from Jolly Old England… not that different from the current islamic pirates off the coast of Africa: http://connectthedots2006.blogspot.com/2008/06/islamic-jihad-18th-century-style.html I have yet to hear Sarah Palin make any noise about islamic terror. I hope she doesn’t pander to CAIR and the so-called ‘moderate’ muslims. Is there ANYONE in office, or planning to run, that recognizes the threat? When will they wake up?
Read Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953) - a man of Churchill’s England.
From Survivals and New Arrivals
“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Mohammedan world fell under a kind of palsy…At last by the end of the nineteenth century, more than nine-tenths of the Mohammedan population of the world…had fallen under the government of nominally Christian nations, especially of England and France.” “On this account our generation came to think of Islam as something naturally subject to ourselves. We no longer regarded it as a rival to our own culture, we thought of its religion as a sort of fossilized thing about which we need not trouble.” “That was almost certainly a mistake. We shall almost certainly have to reckon with Islam in the near future. Perhaps if we lose our faith it will rise.”
“…Perhaps if we lose our faith it will rise.”
Nature abhors a vacuum.
This is what’s happening in Europe, Great Britain, and if we’re not more assertive, here.
“Arabs could be swung on an idea as on a cord; for the unpledged allegiance of their minds made them obedient servants. None of them would escape the bond till success had come, and with it responsibility and duty and engagements. Then the idea was gone and the work ended–in ruins. “Without a creed they could be taken to the four corners of the world (but not to heaven) by being shown the riches of earth and the pleasures of it; but if on the road, led in this fashion, they met the prophet of an idea, who had nowhere to lay his head and who depended for his food on charity or birds, then they would all leave their wealth for his inspiration. “They were incorrigibly children of the idea, feckless and colour-blind, to whom body and spirit were for ever and inevitably opposed. Their mind was strange and dark, full of depressions and exaltations, lacking in rule, but with more of ardour and more fertile in belief than any other in the world. They were a people of starts, for whom the abstract was the strongest motive, the process of infinite courage and variety, and the end nothing. “They were as unstable as water, and like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coasts of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed, and some day, ages yet, might roll unchecked over the place where the material world had been, and God would move upon the face of those waters. One such wave (and not the least) I raised and rolled before the breath of an idea, till it reached its crest, and toppled over and fell at Damascus. The wash of that wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave, when in fullness of time the sea shall be raised once more.” — T. E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Is the book The River War, BW?
GREAT book, if so — the man could really write. Decent reading copies are available for less than $10.00 including postage if your library doesn’t have one, or you wish to own it. Try Bookfinder.com and use the “classical search display”.
How clear-eyed were the writers unconstrained by political correctness.
And yes, it was from The River War. Churchill was a truly great man, someone who managed to transcend his many and varied flaws. Just one side of his greatness was his extraordinary ability with words. He managed to be incredibly lush and sophisticated in his writing, but never sacrificed clarity, whether of the words themselves or the ideas behind them.
The Mohammedans not constrained by the western concept of PC, elections and getting good press [see: #2]
Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the Indonesian capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby elementary school that the U.S. president attended as a child.
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/AS-Indonesia-Obama-Statue/2010/02/15/id/349876