Since the Armies of Mohammad first made contact with the West,
Western leaders understood Islam is a barbaric and evil doctrine that
enslaves, consumes and destroys everything in its path.
“There being so many sects and
heresies banded together against the Truth, finding that (Mohammad)
wanting to (do battle), I thought it good to bring it to their
(attention), that so viewing thine enemies in their full body, thou
mayest the better prepare to encounter, and I hope overcome them.”
Introduction to Thomas Jefferson’s Koran translated into English in London in 1649
“This book is a long conference of God, the angels, and Mohammad, which that false prophet very grossly invented.”
Introduction to John Adams’ Koran translated into English in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1806
“(Mohammad) poisoned the sources
of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the
female sex, and the allowance of polygamy, and he declared
undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion,
against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was
violence and lust. To exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human
nature. Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their
characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is
yet flagrant…While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false
prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace
upon earth, and good will towards men.”
President John Quincy Adams
“That it was founded on the Laws
of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur’an, that all nations
who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it
was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be
found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that
every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to
Paradise.”
Letter from U.S. Ambassadors Thomas
Jefferson (to France) and John Adams (to England) dated 1786 to the
Continental Congress detailing the response from the muslim potentate
from Tripoli when asked by the Americans why the muslims were attacking
U.S. ships and capturing Americans without provocation.
“The case is clear in the case of
Mohammed. He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which
the concupiscence of flesh goads us. His teaching also contained
precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and gave free reign
to carnal pleasures. In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by
carnal men. As for proof of the truth of his doctrine, he brought
forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone
with a modest wisdom.
“Indeed, the truths that he taught
he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.
He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which
alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible
action that can only be divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of
truth.
“On the contrary, Mohammed said
that he was sent in the power of his arms–which are signs not lacking
even to robbers and tyrants. What is more, no wise men, men trained in
things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning.
“Those who believe in him were
brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of divine teaching
through whose numbers Mohammed forced others to become his followers by
the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on the part of
preceding prophets offer him any witness.
“On the contrary, he perverts
almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them
into fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his
law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his
followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict
him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place any faith in his
words believe foolishly.”
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, Chapter 6
“It is utterly impossible to
appreciate social values at all or to discriminate between what is
socially good and socially bad unless we appreciate the utterly
different social values of different wars. The Greeks who triumphed at
Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been
deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus,
Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and
Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized
man over the enemies of civilization, because of victories stretching
through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to
those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski
in the seventeenth century. During the thousand years that included
the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king the Christians
of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem
conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from
the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any ” social
values” whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the
sphere of Mohammedan influence and the decaying native Christian
churches are concerned. There are such “social values” today in Europe,
America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the
Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the
Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do, that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.
It is of course worth while for sociologists to discuss the effect of
this European militarism on “social values,” but only if they first
clearly realize and formulate the fact that if the European militarism
had not been able to defend itself against and to overcome the
militarism of Asia and Africa, there would have been no “social values”
of any kind in our world today, and no sociologists to discuss them.
Theodore Roosevelt, “Social Values and
National Existence”, Papers and Proceedings of the American
Sociological Society, Volumes 9-10, 1916
“The Wahhabis profess a life of
exceeding austerity, and what they practice themselves, they rigorously
enforce on others. They hold it as an article of duty, as well as of
faith, to kill all who do not share their opinions and to make slaves of
their wives and children. Women have been put to death in Wahhabi
villages for simply appearing in the streets. It is a penal offense to
wear a silk garment. Men have been killed for smoking a cigarette, and
as for the crime of alcohol, the most energetic supporter of the
temperance cause in this country falls far behind them. Austere,
intolerant, well-armed, and bloodthirsty, in their own regions the
Wahhabis are a distinct factor which must be taken into account, and
they have been, and still are, very dangerous to the holy cities of
Mecca and Medina, and to the whole institution of the pilgrimage, in
which our Indian fellow-subjects are so deeply concerned.”
Speech given by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, 14 June 1921
“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 had vainly struggled, the civilization of
modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill, The River War (Volume II, 1st edition), pgs 248-250
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