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The author of this
email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well
respected psychiatrist. A man whose family was
German aristocracy pior to WWII
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 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 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 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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