With many today seeking to
justify Islam under a cloak of tolerance, its good to read the words of Sir
Winston Churchill in 1899. He had no political ax to grind and you can’t say he
was on the left or the right. He saw what he saw, and he understood what he
understood.
In our century, Churchill’s words
have surfaced again. In May, 2013, an elected official of the Missouri
House of Representatives, Rick Stream, publicized Churchill’s words in an email
to his colleagues. He was roundly criticized in the press for doing so.
A few weeks later when a British soldier was hacked
to death by Muslims on the streets of London, Churchill’s words came into focus
in a column by Cal Thomas in the Winston-Salem Journal.
A year later Paul Weston, chairman of a British
conservative political party, read Churchill’s words to a crowd on the
steps of a hall in Hampshire, England. The police arrested him and later
apologized.
Hundreds of years ago, the great sage
Maimonides, forecast that in the end of days, those who
follow the prophets of other religions will come to see that “their
ancestors endowed them with a false heritage; their prophets and ancestors
caused them to err.” This is happening today. There are many courageous Muslims who are protesting the teachings of Islam and some have renounced the religion altogether. Also the Noahide movement is growing, comprised of those who follow the 7 Noahide Laws given to Moses at Mt. Sinai for the nations of the world.
“The
influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow
it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” – Sir Winston Churchill on Islam
Full text of Churchill on Islam from his book, The River War 1899
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 Moslems may show splendid qualities. 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 civilization of modern Europe might
fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
