Churchill’s family begged him not to convert to Islam, letter reveals

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OP - December 29, 2014, 02:22 PM

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The family of Sir Winston Churchill urged him to “fight against” the desire to convert to Islam, a newly discovered letter has revealed.

The Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War Two was apparently so taken with Islam and the culture of the Orient that his family wrote to try and persuade him not to become a Muslim.

In a letter dated August 1907 Churchill’s soon to be sister-in-law wrote to him: “Please don’t become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalise, Pasha-like tendencies, I really have.

“If you come into contact with Islam your conversion might be effected with greater ease than you might have supposed, call of the blood, don’t you know what I mean, do fight against it.”

The letter, discovered by a history research fellow at Cambridge University, Warren Dockter, was written by Lady Gwendoline Bertie who married Churchill’s brother Jack.

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Reply #1 - December 29, 2014, 02:51 PM

odd…considering he didnt have kind things to say about "mohammedens".
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Reply #2 - December 29, 2014, 03:13 PM

Read the rest if the source and it shows that whoever wrote the letter as clearly overreacting.

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Reply #3 - December 29, 2014, 03:18 PM

Churchill said some other things about Islam that were less than complimentary, including likening Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to the Quran

http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=25275.0

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Reply #4 - December 29, 2014, 03:39 PM

Well, from what I know he was not so impressed by Islam. He happened to have stated the following

"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
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.”
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Reply #5 - December 30, 2014, 04:17 AM

Quote from: Jedi on December 29, 2014, 03:13 PM
Read the rest if the source and it shows that whoever wrote the letter as clearly overreacting.

lol, read the article. fascination with islam and the orient =/= desire to convert.
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Reply #6 - December 30, 2014, 08:32 AM

Call of blood huh?

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