Posted on 05/24/2007 2:19:02 AM PDT by Deacon_m
THE PEACEFUL MUSLIM
A man whose family was part of the German aristocracy prior to World War Two owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave should guide our attitude toward Islamic 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 Islamic fanaticm rampaging across the globe. The fact of the matter 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 of Africa, 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 after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously stone, behead and shoot homosexuals and rape victims.
The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" the "silent majority" of Muslims is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of a peaceful majority of Russians who just wanted to live in peace. Yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but the 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"? Of course!
This history lesson is incredibly simple and blunt! Yet for all our powers of reason we are missing the most basic and uncomplicated of points: THE 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 has come.
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 we Americans, who are watching this 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 this issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on. You will be contributing to the passivity that has allowed this problems to 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.
This actually one of a number of excellent blog comments posted to a short opinion piece on the just released survey of American Muslims. Certainly deserving of the standalone treatment being given to it here.
Is this about Barack Hussein Osama?
Ameriki wrote this?
Ok, I see “Ameriki” is a poster responding the article Mr. Spencer posted.
There are good Muslims. It doesn’t make Islam a good religion.
The only way to be a "good Muslim" (our standard of good) is for that Muslim to be a "bad Muslim" (by Islamic standards) and ignore the teachings of the Koran and Hadith (ways of Mohammad- may he burn in hell forever)
Communist Russia was comprised of a peaceful majority of Russians who just wanted to live in peace. Yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people.==
Soviet Union and Soviet Communists were the multinational. Russians were just one of 100+ ethnicities of SU.
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