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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Egyptian clerics repeat Ben Franklin prophecy myth

This story is old and long since disproved, but Egyptian clerics in the 'new Egypt' continue to keep it alive.

Let's go to the videotape.



And this is in a country with which we are supposedly at peace....

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At 11:48 PM, Blogger Captain.H said...

US President Benjamin Franklin, eh???

Well, here's what young Winston Churchill had to say in 1899 about Islam, in his first book, "The River War", about the Sudan War, in which he served (and BTW also participated in the last great cavalry charge of the British Army.)

Young Churchill, a graduate of Harrow and Sandhurst Royal Military College, had seen Islam in peace and war, serving as a junior officer in the British Army in India, in the part of India now called Pakistan, in Egypt and in Sudan. He'd served in peace and in combat against Muslim Jihadi fanatics in what's now Pakistan and in Sudan.

Churchill wrote: "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.

Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die 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 civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

What would Churchill say today? Who knows but he could say, "I told you so. Nothing's changed since I wrote that book."

 

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