This is by
far the best explanation of the terrorist situation I have ever read.
His references to past history are accurate and clear.
Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read.
The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Tanay
) well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.
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 spectre 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 honour-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.
Lastly,
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 to
expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on!
Let us hope
that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on -
before it's too late.
Now Islamic
prayers have been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario,
and, yes, in Ottawa too while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so
offensive?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in
our country until the fanatics move in.
And we remain
silent.
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