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[COMMENT: a German's reflections on Islam today.
On target. We must work hard to convince the "moderates" to stand up to
the radicals. We have no reason to truth the moderates until they stop
being self-centered comfort-seekers.
E. Fox]
This is by far
the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His
references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand,
and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel
Tanay, a well known and well respected psychiatrist.
Whether or not the
origin/author is authentic is not relevant. The logic and import stand alone.
A German's View on Islam
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 hade 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 spectra 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. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill
and to become suicide bombers.
The hard quantifiable fact is that
the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia comprised 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 posers 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, Afghans, 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.
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