Rumor: Winston Churchill commented on the 'dreadful curses of Mohammedanism' in his 1899 book 'The River Wars.' ...

What's False … he did not use those exact words. Churchill compared fanaticism in Islam to rabies in a dog. Churchill wrote, "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

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Mohammedanism also holds to the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body. But the religion which holds under its sway one-third of humanity, said Dr. Silverman, has many weaknesses.

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.