Winston Churchill is widely admired in the West for his stand against the Nazis. But Churchill had a dark side, a racist, and prejudiced view of non-White people. View the slide show to read some of his words.

1. Winston Churchill
The Bigot

2. Churchill is widely admired in the West
for his leadership and determination
against the Nazis

3. Churchill’s views on different races:

4. On Kurds
“I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas
against uncivilized tribes…(which)would
spread a lively terror.”

5. On Indians (South Asia)
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people
with a beastly religion.”

6. On Islam
“How dreadful are the curses which
Mohammedanism [sic] lays on its votaries!”

7. “No stronger retrograde force [than Islam] exists
in the world…Mohammedanism is a militant
and proselytizing faith. It has already spread
throughout Central Africa, raising fearless
warriors at every step…”

8. On Gandhi
It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a
seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a
fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half
naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while
he is still organizing and conducting a campaign of
civil disobedience, to parlay on equal terms with
the representative of the Emperor-King.

9. Gandhi…
“ought to be lain bound hand and foot at
the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by
an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy
seated on its back.”

10. On Jews
“The central fact which dominates the
relations of Jew and non-Jew is that the Jew
is ‘different.’ He looks different. He thinks
differently. He has a different tradition and
background. He refuses to be absorbed.”

11. On Native Americans
“I do not admit… that a great wrong has
been done to the Red Indians of America,
or the black people of Australia… by the
fact that a stronger race, a higher grade
race… has come in and taken its place.”

12. On Native Americans
“I do not admit… that a great wrong has
been done to the Red Indians of America,
or the black people of Australia… by the
fact that a stronger race, a higher grade
race… has come in and taken its place.”

13. Reference:
Churchill’s Bust
Asia Recorder, December 31, 2014.
URL: http://asiarecorder.com/churchills-bust/
Winston Churchill’s Bigotry
Asia Recorder, February 2, 2015.
URL: http://asiarecorder.com/winston-churchills-bigotry/