New English Review Press is pleased to announce our sixtieth title: Churchill’s Secular Creed: Empire, Zionism, and Islam’s Complicity in the Holocaust by Ibn Warraq.
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.
Advance Praise for Churchill’s Secular Creed:
Ibn Warraq provides a bold new interpretation of Winston Churchill, arguing that his famous success as a statesman was borne of his belief in the civilizational progress that had been achieved by the British empire, whether battling Islamic terrorists, ruling Hindu India, or establishing a homeland for the Jews. His unsparing criticism of those who would cancel Churchill is timely and pointed.
—Bruce Gilley, author of The Case for Colonialism
Great men and their best biographers are often well bred and well read. Churchill and Warraq are well matched here. What our historical icons read matters. Such is the case here with Ibn Warraq’s Churchill’s Secular Creed. Winston’s Churchill’s erudition and moral clarity are rare today, an era where secular and religious fascism have merged. “Totalitarian,” as Churchill might say, is an absolute, then and now.
—G. Murphy Donovan, retired USAF, former chief of Russian (nee Soviet) Studies at ACS Intelligence, HQ USAF, Washington DC.
