PART TWO: CRICKET LOVELY CRICKET.[6] Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, was also a devotee of cricket, and wrote “I tend to think cricket is the greatest thing that God created on earth.” J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, also agreed, calling it the “an idea of the gods.” He then added, “cricket is the […]
What Could Possibly Be the Connection Between Peter Pan Playing Cricket and Islamic Triumphalism? (Part 1)
Every time a Muslim terrorist commits his, or on occasions her, act of terror on innocent Western civilians, he or she utters what is known as the Takbir, that is the expression in Arabic “Allahu Akbar”. The targets are usually Western civilians but they could also be those Muslims not considered sufficiently pure, as when […]
Winston Churchill’s Putative Conversion to Islam (Part 3)
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. CREDULITY IN ALL RELIGIOUS MATTER. “The high sententious fantasy of the ignorant Arabs, the same that will not trust the heart of man, is full of infantile credulity in all religious matter.”[34] MISERIES OF THE HAJ. “Infinite are the miseries of the Haj; religion is a promise […]
Winston Churchill’s Putative Conversion to Islam (Part 2)
Part 1 is here. WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT [1840-1922] Let us now turn to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, who dressed up in “Arab clothes” with Churchill. It is a bit of stretch to go from dressing up in Arab clothes to converting to Islam. What exactly are “Arab clothes”? Not all Arabs are Muslims. There are Christian […]
Winston Churchill’s Putative Conversion to Islam (Part 1)
There was considerable fuss and noise and Islamic triumphalism in 2014 when a certain researcher from the University of Aberystwyth (U.K.) called Warren Dockter supposedly came across a letter written by Winston Churchill’s future sister-in-law, Lady Gwendeline Bertie [1] in August 1907 (she married Winston’s brother Jack on 4 August 1908) in which she pleads […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Six)
Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. “While the Mad Fakir was rousing Swat and Buner, this powerful priest incited the Mohmands”.[1] The Mohmand were also a Pashtun tribe, against whom the British had waged war on and off since 1851, but the main operations began between 1897–1898. Though he was known […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Five)
Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. The extraordinary credulity of the people is hardly conceivable. Had the Mad Mullah called on them to follow him to attack Malakand and Chakdara they would have refused. Instead he worked miracles. He sat at his house, and all who came to visit him, brought him a […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Four)
Part One. Part Two. Part Three. The Mad Mullah was born Saidullah Khan [sometimes also known as Sadullah, or Mastun Mullah (Ecstasy Mullah), or the Sartor Fakir or Faqir (the Bare-headed Saint)] in the village of Rega Buner in the Buner Valley and was a member of a branch of the Yousafzai tribe, another Pashtun […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Three)
Part One. Part Two. In the evenings one can imagine them recounting tales of the former glory days of Islam, continues Churchill, [when] the Mullah will raise his voice and remind them of other days when the sons of the prophet drove the infidel from the plains of India, and ruled at Delhi, as wide […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Two)
Part One is here. Churchill biographer Con Coughlin also describes their character in unflattering terms: “The Pashtuns invariably used violence to resolve their differences, which led to feuds between families lasting for generations. The Pashtun language even contains a specific word to define revenge between cousins. In many respects these frontiersmen were warriors in the […]