British leader Winston Churchill family convert to Islam or anti-Islam according to Dockter
British leader Winston Churchill was once begged to not convert to Islam, a recently unearthed family letter shows. The letter appears to disprove claims the iconic World War II leader was anti-Islam, according to the academic who found the correspondence. Dockter found the letter in the Churchill Archives Center in Cambridge and told NBC News that "most amateur histories and people with a political ax to grind" cite a Churchill quote about the dreadful nature of "Mohammedanism." But that quote was made in the context of a fundamentalist Islamic revolt in Sudan that was violently suppressed by the British and should not be interpreted as a reflection of Churchill's view on the entire religion, Dockter explained. Churchill, who set up the Middle East Department in the Colonial Office of the British empire, had a lifelong interest in Islamic culture, according to Dockter, author of the upcoming book "Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Ori...