Neither Bammy nor Teddy, much less FDR knew Islam as did Winston Churchill.
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]).
PS this was , and is commonly posted on FR.
I like best a comment made by an 11 year old gifted girl, who while wading through a slough in the Everglades asked “Why don’t we use our nuclear advantage while we still have it?”
Yes, she did understand what she was asking - seems she had already read some 2,200 adult books and could recall every word of every page of every book.
I wish I had such a mind.
I also wish my fellow Aericans understood Islam as did Churchill and eleven year old Rachel.
Interesting. Who is Rachel? (Forgive my naivete.)
Churchill’s quotes have been on my page here for years.