Sir Winston Churchill 's family feared he might convert to Islam

The discovery of a letter to Sir Winston Churchill from his future sister-in-law has thrown new light on his fascination with Islam and Muslim culture .

He is indelibly associated with the fight to preserve Britain and its Empire from Nazi invasion and his subsequent denouncement of Soviet totalitarianism’s Iron Curtain.

In the public eye, Sir Winston Churchill’s long political career earned him a place among the greatest of Britons.

But what may come as a surprise is that he was a strong admirer of Islam and the culture of the Orient — such was his regard for the Muslim faith that relatives feared he might convert.

The revelation comes with the discovery of a letter to Churchill from his future sister-in-law, Lady Gwendoline Bertie, written in August 1907, in which she urges him to rein in his enthusiasm.

In the letter, discovered by Warren Dockter, a history research fellow at Cambridge University, she pleads: “Please don’t become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalise [fascination with the Orient and Islam], Pasha-like tendencies, I really have.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11314580/Sir-Winston-Churchill-s-family-feared-he-might-convert-to-Islam.html

TYPICAL ignorant bigotry and racism of the "Upper Class" aristocracy, personified in the esteemed "Lady Gwen's" bright little observations...

JUST because someone may at times be somewhat impressed or even enamoured with some particular foreign cultures, mores, religions or politics, doesn't always have to mean that they will automatically convert to each and very one those beliefs, simply out of curiosity..

OTHERWISE, the world would be overrun with whole groups of people overloaded by multiple religious belief systems and political dogmas.