Your religion of peace

I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy
prior toWorld War II. They owned a number of large
industries and estates. I asked him how many German people
were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me
and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.

"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 a 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 Jew and 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 killers. It is the
fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. The hard
quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" is the
"silent majority" and it 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 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 spea 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.

Lastly, I wish to add: At the risk of offending someone,
I sincerely think that anyone who rejects this as just another
political rant, or doubts the seriousness of this issue or just
deletes it without sending it on, may be part of the problem.

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Or as one of C~B~N's favorite quotes goes....

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Ahhh, the value of those History lessons !


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