…Yes, the horrors here and in Paris share the same root: Islam, which Western man, leastwise its leaders, have lost the ability to pass judgement on as inferior to their own civilization and one that should not be welcome in their countries.

In my book, when Winston Churchill mounts the stage in the history of Zionism, I chart his doings and quote some of his own writing on the Islam he encountered face-to-face in today’s Afghanistan-Pakistan region and Sudan. Churchill, born in the glory decades of the British Empire, was shameless in his rejection of Islam as anything but the most retrograde of cultures. He wrote that at the end of the 19th century and it is as true today as ever…