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> 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 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. 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 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, 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.
>
> 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. 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 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, 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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