The statue of Winston Churchill standing in Parliament Square in London has been repeatedly defaced in recent years - acts which would have been unthinkable to a previous generation. Revisionist historians have tried to make the case that the British Empire was unrelievedly evil and that the hero of WWII was really a villain. Ibn Warraq sets the record straight as only someone born in Colonial India could. Warraq is that rare example of someone who has broken the mental chains of his former culture and embraced Western ideals with a whole heart. He begins the present work by exploring Churchill's mental development, his prodigious reading, and his military experiences defending India's northwest frontier with Afghanistan and clashes in the Sudan and Egypt. He explores the immense benefit British colonialism bestowed upon the people of India and how little it benefitted the British themselves. Warraq also goes into great detail about the circumstances of the Balfour Declaration and Churchill's deep and abiding Zionism and defense of the Jewish nation. Lastly, the absurd idea that Churchill considered converting to Islam is thoroughly debunked.
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Churchill's Secular Creed
Empire, Zionism, and Islam's Complicity in the Holocaust
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- A Note on the Cover Art
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I - Blenheim Palace
- 1 Woodstock and John Churchill
- 2 The Architecture of John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor
- 3 The Birth of Winston Spencer Churchill
- Part II - The Education of Winston S. Churchill
- 4 Harrow and Sandhurst
- 5 Intense Reading Programme - Self-Education in Bangalore
- 6 Edward Gibbon
- 7 Thomas Babington Macaulay
- 8 W.E.H. Lecky
- 9 Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man
- 10 William James, The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness
- 11 Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
- 12 Katherine Mayo, Mother India
- Part III - British Empire and Its Mission - Churchill's Religion
- 13 Churchill's Religious Beliefs and Sense of Destiny
- 14 The British Empire's Mission and the Need to Hold On To India
- 15 India and the Northwest Frontier
- 16 NW Frontier & MFF Continued
- 17 Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, and Religious Violence in India
- 18 The British in Egypt and the Sudan
- 19 Churchill in Egypt and the Sudan - The River War
- 20 Western Civilisation and its Superiority
- Part IV - British India and Its Legacy - Neither Evil not Exploitative
- Preamble and Introduction to Part IV
- 21 Indian Intellectuals as Witnesses to the Positive Legacy of the British Raj
- 22 Economics of Empire - British Empire did not Make Britain Rich
- 23 Indian Civilizsation and Western Scholars
- 24 Stones of Empire - British Architecture
- 25 British Sculpture in India
- Part V - Churchill and the Jews
- 26 Lord Randolph Churchill and the Jews
- Epilogue - Churchill's Putative Conversion to Islam
- Appendix 1 - T.B. Macaulay on Education
- Appendix 2 - Macaulay on the Irrelevance of Religion to Politics
- Appendix 3 - Winston S. Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
- Appendix 4 - Winston Churchill - The River War, Lost in the Desert
- Appendix 5 - Chruchill's Speech in House of Commons 14 June 1921
- Appendix 6 - Katherine Mayo, Mother India
- Selected Bibliography
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