Churchill on Islam

Winston Churchill 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." =============================================================================================== It is amazing that this hasn't been published long before now. CHURCHILL ON ISLAM Unbelievable, but the speech below was written in 1899...  (check Wikipedia - The River War). The attached short speech from Winston Churchill, was delivered  by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist.   It probably sets out the current views of many, but expresses in  the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English  language, of which he was a past master.  Sir Winston Churchill  was, without doubt, one of the greatest men of the late 19th and  20th centuries.  He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist,  an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and  British Prime Minister, to whom the Western world must be forever  in his debt.  He was a prophet in his own time.  He died on 24th  January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and, after a lifetime of  service to his country, was accorded a State funeral.  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 248-250 London).  Churchill saw it coming...... Why are we doing nothing to stop it?