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Peter the Venerable had recounted in 1142 ( J.P.Migne (ed.) Patrologia Latina (1844-64) Vol. 189, Col.671; "I therefore approached specialists in the Arabic language, from which comes the deadly poison which has infected half the world, and I persuaded them - by pleas and by offering payment - to translate from Arabic into Latin the origin, life and laws of that damned soul (Muhammad) which is called the Koran ... in order that the translation should be completely accurate, and in order that no detail should escape us through the deceit, I added a Saracen to the team of Christian translators". It is mentioned in the History in Quotations by M.J. Cohen and John Major that the great abbey of Cluny in Burgundy (1122-56) visited Cluniac monastries in Spain and took drastic action to draw the poison. .
I have also come across an interesting comparison by Winston Churchill to Koran. It comes on p. 50 of From War to War, the first part of the first volume of his 6-part Second World War. Chapter 4 deals with Adolf Hitler, including a close look at Mein Kampf, which Churchill called "the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message."
And in his book The River War, Churchill commented on Muslims thus. 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. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities.
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