Winston Churchill and Islam

The Ottoman Islam was perhaps the most progressive sort of the time.<p>But then the post-ww1 dividing of the empire between the British and the French turned the place into the mess the world is still dealing with today.<p>Adam Curtis talk about this in part of this blog: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;adamcurtis&#x2F;entries&#x2F;2989a78a-ee94-385e-808f-c9c7c38d1cb7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;adamcurtis&#x2F;entries&#x2F;2989a78a-ee94-...</a>

Churchill is the equivalent of Saddam Hussein, Hafez Asad or any other ruthless blood thirsty Arab despot and I find it bewildering why he&#x27;s still admired by certain segments of the population in the west unless they share the same value system and morals (or the lack thereof) and then I find it more bewildering why they dislike militant or radical Islam vehemently since they have a lot in common with the adherents of those ideologies.

Hitler and Napoleon were both into Islam too.

&gt; <i>By October 1898, he had returned to Britain and begun his two-volume work, The River War, an account of the reconquest of the Sudan which was published the following year. In this work, Churchill warned against what he considered to be the dangers of the influence of Islam: &quot;Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes 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 (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Winston_Churchill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Winston_Churchill</a>

Churchill did not like a lot of non-Western nations. He had his mind made up at a young age. He was also against Indians and Hindu thought.<p>Europe does not fall because there has not been an Islam v. Europe war for centuries. It&#x27;s been a slow integration of North African &amp; Arab cultures with a continued focus on European social values, science and leadership.