Winston Churchill has been known for criticizing Islam and bashing the said faith saying it paralyzes the social development of its followers. But recently, a letter made by his sister-in-law was discovered indicating Churchill's possible conversion to the said religion.

It was a letter Lady Gwendoline addressed to Churchill saying, "Please don't become converted to Islam; "Please don't become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to Orientalize [fascination with the Orient and Islam], Pasha-like tendencies, I really have...If you come into contact with Islam your conversion might be effected with greater ease than you might have supposed, call of the blood, don't you know what I mean, do fight against it."

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She wrote it before her scheduled wedding day to Churchill's brother in 1907. It was clearly seen from the letter's content that she saw certain attributes in the Prime Minister's character insinuating a strong interest about Islam and a propensity to be converted to it.

To make this speculation about his possible Islamic conversion more evident, another letter was found, but this time it was written by Churchill himself addressing it to Lady Lytton saying he aspires to be a pasha. He even referred to himself as one too on that particular letter.

According to The Independent, Churchill had even dressed himself in oriental attire privately along with his friend and Arabic poet, Wilfrid S. Blunt.

Meanwhile, the scholar who found the letters of Lady Gwendoline, Warren Dockter, argued that Churchill was just extremely fascinated about the religion and that he never really seriously considered converting to it. He insisted that Churchill's family was just way too worried in vain. He is sure about this because he did a lot of research on Churchill in Cambridge for his book Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East.

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