Ahead of the publication, this may be useful in providing additional context - and balance - for WSC's remarks:-
http://warrendockter.com/why-churchills-infamous-how-dreadful-are-the-curses-which-mohammedanism-quote-is-an-inaccurate-example-of-his-view-of-the-islamic-world/ Arif Zaman On 30 April 2014 23:32, Lee Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > As some of you may know, Warren Dockter will be bringing out a new book on > Churchill and the Islamic World in a few months; it cover Churchill’s > relationship with Islam over the whole of his life. Information is on the > I.B. Tauris website. > > > On 28 August 2014 19:34, PatFinn1940 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > *Good grief--this PC stuff is absolutely ridiculous. Churchill's > comments in The River War are, in too many ways, still relevant today. If > he were alive today, what would he say about ISIS, or Boko Haram? I am > sure he would have said something just as descriptive. And perhaps been > arrested by the 'PC police'. INSANE.(Ms.) Pat Finnegan* > > On Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:18:30 AM UTC-4, Jonathan Hayes wrote: > >> >> >> Jonathan Hayes >> >> "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. >> Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat >> and drink beer all day." >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> *From:* "Ehowatt" <[email protected]> >> >> *Date:* August 27, 2014 at 10:05:15 PM PDT >> *To:* "'Richard Van Allen'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, >> "'A.L. Syson'" <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* "'Siu Ling Hui'" <[email protected]>, "'Robert Lewis Galinsky'" < >> [email protected]> >> >> *Subject:* *Arrested for Quoting Churchill * >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> August 27th 2014 ⎙ *H*al *G*.P. *C*olebatch >> *Arrested for Quoting Churchill [image: CHURCHILL] >> <http://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CHURCHILL.jpg>* >> >> Britain's wartime leader defied Hitler and preserved at the cost of >> blood and treasure the sceptre'd isle of Magna Carta and hard-won >> liberties. How now is that we see this legacy of freedoms being so meekly >> surrendered? >> >> *Britain has taken a symbolic step further down the road to cultural >> suicide with the arrest, on the steps of Winchester’s ancient and historic >> Guildhall, of Mr Paul Weston, who was a candidate in the elections to the >> European parliament. His offence was having quoted Winston Churchill’s 1899 >> book The River War.* >> >> Mr Weston, chairman of the small party Liberty GB, was addressing a >> public meeting when an unidentified woman took offence and called the >> police. No fewer than seven police officers promptly appeared. Mr Weston >> was arrested in mid-speech and bundled into a police van. He was charged >> with having failing to comply with a request to move on under the powers of >> a dispersal order made against him. >> >> He was further arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment, >> an offence possibly carrying a severe prison sentence. This police >> overkill, where a word of warning might have been enough in a case of mere >> obstruction, indicates that Mr Weston’s offence was seen as political >> rather than a mere minor infringement of public order. He was bailed >> pending further inquiries. >> >> A Liberty GB spokesman said: >> >> Mr Weston was addressing the passers-by in the street with a megaphone. >> He quoted an excerpt about Islam from the book The River War by Winston >> Churchill. Reportedly, a woman came out of the Guildhall and asked Mr >> Weston if he had the authorisation to make this speech. When he answered >> that he didn’t, she told him, “It’s disgusting,” and then called the police. >> >> Unfortunately for the police and the complainant, Sir Winston himself was >> beyond the reach of the law. Had he been around, other offences of >> harassment by him might have been taken into account, such as describing >> the well-known European statesman and advocate of European unity Adolf >> Hitler as a bloodthirsty guttersnipe to be purged and blasted from the >> surface of the earth, and the leaders of the late Union of Soviet Socialist >> Republics as “foul baboonery”. >> >> In *The River War* he had written: >> >> 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. >> >> Churchill was particularly concerned with the oppression of women in many >> Islamic societies and said the world would not be free until this was ended: >> >> 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. >> >> He claimed, in words some might think prophetic: >> >> Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: 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. >> >> *The River War* is Churchill’s account of the Sudan campaign against the >> Dervishes, in which, aged twenty-three, he had served as an officer of >> lancers and had also moonlighted as a war correspondent. In the Battle of >> Omdurman he had taken part in one of the British Army’s last great cavalry >> charges. >> >> The question of whether Churchill’s sweeping strictures on Islam are >> objectively true is beside the point. The point is that Britain has gone a >> long, long way towards destroying its cherished principle of freedom of >> speech, and no end to the process is in sight. I have written previously >> of recent cases of British people arrested for quoting or displaying >> passages from the Bible. >> >> This censorship and persecution take place under the eyes of the >> apparently culturally-lobotomised and inert Conservative–Liberal Democrat >> coalition government. Tory Prime Minister David Cameron could end this >> madness instantly by picking up a phone or uttering a few pointed words to >> the responsible ministers in cabinet, but he apparently does nothing. >> >> Children have been arrested and brought before *judges *(not mere >> magistrates) by the Crown Prosecution Service for using racist words in >> school; or even kindergarten, playground squabbles. One schoolgirl was >> actually *arrested* and held in custody for racism (I am not making this >> up) when she asked her teacher if she could join English-speaking students >> to do a group assignment. >> >> A generation after the *Lady Chatterley* trial and the abolition of the >> Lord Chamberlain’s office and powers ended literary and theatrical >> censorship, it appears to be returning in full blast from a different >> direction, driven by forces of political correctness. There seems no point >> at which a line might be drawn and a stand made against the rising tide of >> this new censorship. If it is an offence to quote *The River War*, >> should it not logically also be an offence to print or sell it? And why not >> other books expressing politically incorrect opinions, even if they were >> written by men like Churchill who were great champions of freedom and >> democracy against totalitarianism and against the racist genocide of German >> National Socialism? >> >> What has happened to that anti-censorship gaggle of trendy bishops, media >> personalities and so forth who arose honking with indignation over the >> banning of the pathologically misogynist *Lady Chatterley’s Lover*? >> >> If quoting the writings of Churchill is a criminal offence, who is safe? >> I can, for a start, think of several passages in the canon of George >> Orwell’s writing which might also attract the censor’s attention. Passages >> which might offend the hyper-sensitive on racial or eugenic grounds occur >> in the works of a vast multitude of British writers including, from the >> Left alone, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence. Even so >> enthusiastic an Arabist as T.E. Lawrence wrote of the Arabs in his magnum >> opus, *Seven Pillars of Wisdom*, much as the young Churchill did. Don’t >> go quoting *Seven Pillars of Wisdom *around Winchester: >> >> They were a limited, narrow-minded people, whose inert intellects lay >> fallow in incurious resignation. Their imaginations were vivid, but not >> creative. There was so little Arab art in Asia that they could almost be >> said to have had no art, though their upper classes were liberal patrons, >> and had encouraged whatever talents in architecture, or ceramics, or other >> handicraft their neighbours and helots displayed. Nor did they handle great >> industries: they had no organizations of mind or body. >> >> Shakespeare, however, might get away with the anti-Semitic portrayal of >> Shylock, since Jews are increasingly once again considered fair game in >> Britain and Europe. >> >> Also on the conservative side ready for banning on racist grounds are >> Rudyard Kipling, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Evelyn Waugh (read what >> Dr Grimes has to say about the Welsh in *Decline and Fall*) and >> literally countless others from all points of the political compass. >> Indeed, taken to its logical conclusion, political correctness could >> destroy virtually Britain’s entire literary heritage. Already some >> progressive local councils—Brent is one, but by no means the only, recent >> example—have purged their libraries, destroying literally thousands of >> politically incorrect books. >> >> Other victims of anti-racist purges to date include children’s stories >> featuring golliwogs, even when the golliwogs are shown in a favourable >> light. Censorship of this sort invariably attracts the fanatical and the >> stupid. >> >> Of course this bizarre Churchill incident is not really about someone >> being offended. It is part of the one-way war that is being waged against >> anything that smacks of British traditions and identity. Destroying or >> rendering illegitimate Churchill’s legacy would be a major victory in this >> one-way war. >> >> >> >> >> >> Elizabeth Howatt-Jackman >> >> >> >> www.topcatfilms.com >> >> www.dustandglory.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> <http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm> >> >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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