The author of this piece is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a 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.'
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 step
forward to take
control...then it will be too late.