Warning political
I saw this and had to share. Political ahead, so turn back now, you were warned.
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Some interesting thoughts. I'm not sure who wrote them.
A man whose family was 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 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 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" the "silent majority" 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, it 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 "peaceful & 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.
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Some interesting thoughts. I'm not sure who wrote them.
A man whose family was 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 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 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" the "silent majority" 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, it 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 "peaceful & 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.
posted by at 10:36 AM
16 Comments:
History definitely has many lessons we all tend to ignore. I don't know if I'm ready to wage war on all muslims, but I do think this article speaks to how critical it is for those who are interesting in peace to speak up.
or interested in peace that is
Mamma:
This has always been my biggest complaint about Islam: the vast silent majority, or the people that say its a religion of peace.
Maybe it is, but frankly, maybe its not. The hardcore are running the show and far too many folks are being quiet on them. Or worse, enablers like organizations like CAIR who would instead sue people just like you or me for reporting suspicious activity of muslims doing very odd things(see news item the flying Imans, or the two women in burkas with survalence equiptment staking out a local airport), or WORSE, the gentleman in question that reported the Fort Dix muslims actually had to ask if it was racist to report the activity.
That silence is deadly. The fact that their quiet, or worse, dont want to take critism(see the many threating protests of muslis with signs that say "kill those who critize Islam) is only going to hurt the actual peaceful ones in the long run.
I dont want to wage war agaisnst all muslims. But frankly the silent ones have to speak out and take back whats theirs, otherwise, the fanatic ones will do the driving.
I've said it before to friends elsewhere, the silence is deafening.
I got this email from my father, I enjoyed reading it again here... So do you agree or disagree with it??
Totally agree Deb.
My biggest complain has always been the silent majority. Or worse, organizations like CAIR.
I've said many many times elsewhere, the silence is deafening about all that goes on...
Hey carm..i read the opening line and decided not to read the rest lol...so I honestly don't know what you wrote..but....I wanted you to know I came by ..LOL..see ya later alligator.
Nice post. And on a similar note, America and the free world will only be defended by a small few. Everyone else will sit around languishing until it may be too late. But I guess that is what fanatic enemies are hoping for.
Quinn:
Thats why the warning is there. If you dont want to read real life crap and politics, I gave you a heads up.
Nice to see you kiddo, good luck this weekend.
David:
Keep in mind, I didnt write it, just stole it from discussion group elsewhere.
What do you mean will? Their already doing it now....EU and elsewhere...not to mention part of our own society.
I need to get your email..
I have something for you.
Email sent there kiddo!
Woah. Good point.
Thanks.
Very well said. I agree with mamma who says that it is criticl for those who are interested in peace to speak up. And that goes for any religion , nation or idealogy.
Yup ashley. I've said it many many times before: The silence is deafening from the rest of the community....
Why did you leave out the silent Americans?
Besides, your comparison of militant Islam and the rise of facsim in nation-states really misses the mark.
Radical Islam is not yet a critical threat to the existence of the United States, unless that threat is couched in what may happen to our democracy as the result of the over-reaction to the terrorist threat.
Which Americans are silent gunman? Many are speaking out. In fact their asking the same questions.
But mostly its not their religion thats getting hijack and used, if thats what your asking.
You may not think its a critical threat, but reality check: Islamic terror happens every day across the globe, and while you might think that our democracy is threatened by the laws currrently, you sound like you'd whine again when we get hit why no one is protecting us.
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