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Submitted by onlytruth (United States), Apr 11, 2008 at 07:44

Winston Churchill, 1899: 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." Those "fearless warriors" who once formed armies now hide their faces and do their warring in the shadows. Alexis de Tocqueville: "I studied the Kuran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad..."

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