A German view of Islam
We owe ourselves & our children to do our bit to keep the world sane...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. It is the fanatics
who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the
peaceful Muslim 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:
#1 -- Peace-loving Muslims have been made
irrelevant by their silence.
#2 -- 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.
#3 -- 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.
#4 -- Lastly, 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 and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.
If we are only for ourselves what are our lives for? Make a difference; make the world a better place.
The author is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.
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