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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 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 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, it 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. Can 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 awake 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.
Anyone who doubts that the issue is
serious can
contribute to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand and be
silent.
Let us hope
that thousands, world wide, think about it and refuse to be silent any
longer.
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