I used to know a man
whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two.
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 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. 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 2 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 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, is part of the problem. Lets quit
laughing at and forwarding the jokes and cartoons which
denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war against
terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well
being of the US and it's citizens. Best we support them.
