Judging by Hollywood, Winston Churchill has rarely been more respected than he is in 2018.
Not one, but two movies based on a pivotal moment in Churchill’s World War II leadership were up for best picture at the Oscars, and Englishman Gary Oldman won the Oscar for best actor for portraying the British prime minister in “Darkest Hour.”
But this is what Chruchill said about Islam:
“Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men’s passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination. But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as danger*ous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such …”
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