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Churchill on Islam

"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.”



It may be worth noting that Churchill was accused of having a phobia about Nazis. Today, few would deny that there were substantial grounds for fearing Nazis. Given that a phobia is an irrational fear that has no grounds for that fear, calling Churchill's fear of Nazis is clearly not a phobia because he had real grounds for fearing Nazism.

Likewise I feel that Islamophobia is a nonsensical word because the reasons for fearing the spread of Islam is gaining traction daily as evidence mounts that we really do have something to fear. The fear has ceased to be irrational and can't be called a phobia.