Churchill's Secular Creed: Empire, Zionism, and Islam's Complicity in the Holocaust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781966833116)

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.