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| 'A German's point of view on Islam' |
| 2008-01-28 |
| From my email... by Dr. Emanual Tanay, Psychiatrist A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War ll 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. 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 ll 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, Afghanis, 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, at the risk of offending, 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 of expand . So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it - and send it on. |
| Posted by:Gloria |
| #9 The Nazis had many fewer supporters/sympathizers worldwide but they possessed concentrated power in a military-industrial national entity. Radical Islamists had one power base crushed in Afghanistan because it was a technologically backward, impoverished, militarily weak state. Without a single powerful nation which can export their ideology as a "champion", their movement will still present a threat but one which can be dealt with through vigilance and the careful application of diplomacy and force. So it's really all about Iran. Eliminate that actor from the stage as a major military player without another rising to replace it and the nightmare scenario of worldwide Islamist ascendancy can be restrained. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2008-01-28 18:15 |
| #8 Of course, the flip side of this argument is that we only need to kill the fanatics, not all the muzz. Unlike the case of the Nazis, it's fairly safe to say "scratch a muzz, find a jihadi." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-01-28 13:35 |
| #7 "Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. " There you have it. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Spuque6126 2008-01-28 12:03 |
| #6 'Cowed and extraneous' bordering on violence enablers and accomplices. Islam is what the world would be if everything were inside-out and backwards. Instead of policing their mess, they run from it and deny any knowledge of the result of their bloodthirst. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-01-28 11:42 |
| #5 A pertinent e-mail worth thinking about. Let's keep in mind that the phrase "the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace" is intended to have an effect, not on the terrorists, but on those opposing them. Terrorists reside amongst the people and surreptitiously receives aid from some of them. Attempts to root out terrorists and their supporters are deliberately hampered and stymied by incantations of "don't harm the innocent"! This comes from people who don't give a damn about the innocents harmed by the Terrorists. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-01-28 10:55 |
| #4 Destroy Mecca and their many holy sites and pushes them back into the desert |
| Posted by: Lonzo Slusonter2620 2008-01-28 10:35 |
| #3 The worlwide expansion of Jihadi Islam are sponsored by Saudi and Iran!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul 2008-01-28 10:10 |
| #2 "Peace loving Muslims" who still want every Jew in the world banished or put to the sword. No different than Hitler, no difference at all. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-01-28 01:21 |
| #1 This is probably one of the best concise arguments that I have ever read addressing the issue of the "moderate (peaceful) muslim majority." It is spot on. Thanks for posting it. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2008-01-28 00:38 |