Thanks to Agent 38 for sending along "A German view of Islam", some comments attributed to Dr. Emanuel Tanay, "a well-known and respected German psychiatrist". Walt has done a little checking on this piece (which has been on the Internet for over four years) and suspects the real author is Paul Marek, a second-generation Canadian from Saskatchewan, whose grandparents fled Czechoslovakia just prior to the Nazi takeover.
"Why the peaceful majority is irrelevant" appeared on 18 March 2007 on Arutz Sheva, a website devoted to "Israel national news". It remains a clear and convincing explanation of the rise of and reasons for Muslim (and other) terrorism. The author's references to history are accurate and clear. Walt sees it as worth publishing again, in its entirety.
I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. 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 unquantified 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. [My emphasis. Walt] It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. 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, behea d, murder, or execute honor killings. 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 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 war-mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast 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 the fanatics. 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, Bosnians, Afghanis, 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, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life. [Again, my emphasis. Walt]
A lot of truth in that. Ignoring, or by our passivity and tolerance (in the name of diversity and understanding) supporting fanatics allows them to continue their destructive mission.
We have the same problem today with the small group of radical leftists and one-worlders who have wormed their way into positions of power here in North America. The majority of Americans and Canadians just don't have the will or the courage to take their countries back. Thus we are paying the price of our ignorance and lethargy in allowing this band of thieves, radicals and "social democrats" to promote their own brand of tyranny.
Anyone who doubts that the issue is serious, without at least speaking up and trying to do something to counter it, just feeds the passivity that allows this cancer in our society to grow and spread.
So, Walt asks you to do just one small thing today. Even if you're not the type who sends FWDs to your friends and acquaintances, copy the URL of today's post and send the link to everyone on your mailing list. Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it. Pass it on, before it's too late.
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