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Re:Winston Churchill and Islam by pen2l on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:15PM (#10724374)
Are we sure we should be getting all our lessons from historical figures?

Churchill on Gandhi:

    Gandhi should not be released on the account of a mere threat of 
    fasting, We should be rid of a bad man and an enemy of the Empire if 
    he died.
Churchill on using poison gas on uncivilized tribes:

    I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am 
    strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
Churchill on white race being superior:

    I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the 
    Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not 
    admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a 
    stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it 
    that way, has come in and taken their place.
Re:Winston Churchill and Islam by staunch on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:23PM (#10724401)
Don't confuse a Wikipedia excerpt with an endorsement of the views...

You missed this one:

> By August 1943 Churchill refused to release shipping to send food to India. Initially during the famine he was more concerned with the civilians of Nazi-occupied Greece (who were also suffering from a famine) compared with the Bengalis, noting that the "starvation of anyhow underfed Bengalis is less serious than that of sturdy Greeks".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Re:Winston Churchill and Islam by pen2l on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:35PM (#10724450)
The way you said it sounded like an endorsement (if you'd said that on Reddit, the way you said it would certainly be taken as an endorsement!). But, my mistake, sorry, carry on.