The river war and revisionist history
Long before the blitz of modern mechanized warfare propelled him into his personal finest hour and demonstrated to the world the epitome of war leadership, Sir Winston Churchill served as a young British officer under Lord Kitchener in the conquest of the Sudan.
The year was 1899 and the English-Egyptian force in which Churchill served was part of the Battle of Omdurman, featuring the last British cavalry charge in battle. But perhaps more important than his service was Churchill's first-hand analysis of the campaign in general and the Islamist foe in particular.
In the first edition of Churchill's The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, his chillingly familiar observations and dire warning regarding the scourge of Islam read as though they were written by some contemporary author shortly after the 2001 Islamist terrorist attacks on the United States.
The following excerpt is taken from the first edition, but unfortunately this passage will never be read by future generations — it has been deleted from all later editions thanks to the elitist academicians' penchant for false diversity and multiculturalism. History might offend zealots so we must lie to our progeny and pretend it never occurred.
Here, then, is Churchill's historical observation which the appeasing, effete elites dare not pass along to our children:
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.
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; 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. Thousands become brave and loyal soldiers. All know how to die. 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.
--Sir Winston Churchill, 1899