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The above picture shows Barack Obama meeting Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago.
Holger Awakens also provides some choice Chavez quotes:
" The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. " - Hugo Chavez
"The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism," - Hugo Chavez
“How dreadful are the curses which Islam lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property‹either as a child, a wife, or a concubine must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund, Islam is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science -the science against which it had vainly struggled -the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
— Sir Winston Churchill, The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
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Where was the picture taken? At what event and when?
Hello Dr. D,
This picutre was taken on Friday at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago.
Thank you. I saw no mention of this event in our news media which is a bit surprising (or maybe I was just not paying attention which would not be surprising).
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