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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (308516)11/1/2006 11:12:10 AM
From: Taro  Read Replies (2) of 1574273
 
Sure is nice what those Iraqi "insurgent" criminals are doing to their own, men, women and kids.

Incidentally Churchill understood the "ethics" of those people a long time before others.

Winston was a very wise and courageous man!
He had it right 107 years ago.



"ON ISLAM"

by Winston Churchill in a speech in 1889


"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, 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
(The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

Born: 30 November 1874 Died: 24 January 1965
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