ISLAM: Deadly to a T(ocqueville)!

In researching the famous quote ...

"America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great."

I came to Wikiquote and discovered the following unrelated Tocqueville quotes concerning the teachings of Muhammad.

Since it is roughly the anniversary of Mo's death, I thought it might be good to share them with my readers ...

• Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man.
  

Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.

• I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction 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 to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.

BTW, the quote about America's goodness is a fraud. Tocgueville never originated it.

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