The Peaceful Majority


    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: At the risk of offending someone, 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.