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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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