Winston Churchill Comments reprinted by American Congress for Truth
Reader comment on item: Christianity Dying in Its Birthplace

Submitted by John Randall Peacher (United States), Sep 17, 2005 at 14:05

Where are the political leaders today with the intestinal fortitude of Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain? Where are citizens who love our way of government going to get the information they need to combat and overcome radical Islamist's as groups that advance their agenda? These groups and their representatives in the West use the very freedom they are trying to destroy when confronted with their goal of destruction of Western values. ...

Gregory Smith offers this Churchill comment on that great religion we are not fighting against, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248 50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 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".

"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".

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