A man whose family was
German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries
and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer
he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of
German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who
just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back
and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had
lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything.
I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."
We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is
the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to
live in peace.
Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.
It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow
diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of
Islam The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50
shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter
Christian or tribal groups throughout
Africa
and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is
the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who
take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the
stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard
quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority", the "silent majority", is
cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in
peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about
20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.China's huge
population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a
staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a
warmongering sadist. Yet,
Japan
murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of
killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians;
most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet
And, who can forget Rwanda,
which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of
Rwandans were "peace loving"?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our
powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up ,
because like my friend from Germany,
they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the
end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans,
Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis,
Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died
because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group
that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is
serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing
to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a
bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide,
read this - think about it - and send the link to this page. This is really
why our troops are overseas protecting our shores.
