Quote#Freedom
We are not yet free of peril from the Arabs, who long seriously…
Quote byHouston Stewart Chamberlain · 1855–1927
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899).
English (original)
We are not yet free of peril from the Arabs, who long seriously threatened our existence, and their creation, Mohammedanism, is the greatest of all hindrances to every progress of civilisation, hanging like a sword of Damocles over our slowly and laboriously rising culture in Europe, Asia and Africa.
— Houston Stewart Chamberlain
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