Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam: - The Firearms Forum

tireman7.62x54r · 03-07-2010, 01:42 PM

"I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself." Alexis de Tocqueville

obxned · 03-07-2010, 09:44 PM

Pretty accurate.

ampaterry · 03-08-2010, 05:14 AM

Tireman, I just read that quote last night.
The three books came in yesterday, and we started with this one -
Going SLOW, reading aloud so we can both absorb it -
And there are enough side comments and thoughts that this is going to take some time to finish -

GREAT book, though, and THANK YOU for posting about it!!!

carver · 03-08-2010, 06:11 AM

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville

03-07-2010, 01:42 PM	#1
tireman7.62x54r V.I.P. Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Illinois Posts: 149	Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam: "I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself." Alexis de Tocqueville -->

03-07-2010, 09:44 PM	#2
obxned Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,342	Re: Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam: Pretty accurate. __________________ Proud member of a North Carolina Committee of Safety "If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Stand on Earth!" Ronald Reagan

03-08-2010, 05:14 AM	#3
ampaterry TFF Admin Staff Chaplain Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: West Tennessee Contributor Posts: 6,283	Re: Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam: Tireman, I just read that quote last night. The three books came in yesterday, and we started with this one - Going SLOW, reading aloud so we can both absorb it - And there are enough side comments and thoughts that this is going to take some time to finish - GREAT book, though, and THANK YOU for posting about it!!! __________________ A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. Larry Elder

03-08-2010, 06:11 AM	#4
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,266	Re: Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam: Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Alexis de Tocqueville __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.