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A German's point of view on Islam.
Email from American Congress for Truth | Unknown

Posted on 04/01/2008 1:41:18 PM PDT by moonpie57

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 spectra 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 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, 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 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, 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 -think about it - and send it on.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; muslims; terrorism
This is something that I, and I'm sure, most of you understand. I like the way he expressed it and think it will help me to better explain my beliefs to others. The URL for American Congress for Truth is http://www.actforamerica.org/. It had mot made it to the email archives yet. I just got it a few minutes ago.
1 posted on 04/01/2008 1:41:19 PM PDT by moonpie57
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To: moonpie57

This is a really good point in here.


2 posted on 04/01/2008 1:46:31 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: moonpie57

I wonder who wrote it.


3 posted on 04/01/2008 1:54:16 PM PDT by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: moonpie57

bump


4 posted on 04/01/2008 2:14:24 PM PDT by MI
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To: MI

“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. “

That about says it all right there.


5 posted on 04/01/2008 3:09:08 PM PDT by kozanne
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To: moonpie57

Why not name the aristocrat?


6 posted on 04/01/2008 3:20:20 PM PDT by kenavi ("My mudder thanks you, my fodder thanks you, and Obama thanks you!")
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To: kozanne

Yes, and this one...
The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

Substitute are for were. He nails it.


7 posted on 04/01/2008 3:28:27 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: kenavi

This note was included with the email:

The commentary below is circulating on the internet and provides an excellent historical context for us to view the current rising tide of militant Islam. Let us not forget George Santayana’s remarkable insight: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

I did a quick search and see that it has been posted on many sites. I haven’t found the author yet, but he may show up somewhere. I think what he says is more important than who he is, although I’m curious too.


8 posted on 04/01/2008 3:43:10 PM PDT by moonpie57 (Fred Howell McMurray, Jr. The man on my POW bracelet.)
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To: kenavi

Looks like Dr. Emanual Tanay might be the author.


9 posted on 04/01/2008 3:54:20 PM PDT by moonpie57 (Fred Howell McMurray, Jr. The man on my POW bracelet.)
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To: moonpie57
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...

Sorry, that occurred about three centuries ago.  Think Wahabbi.





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10 posted on 04/01/2008 4:01:12 PM PDT by JCG
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To: moonpie57

Thanks for checking. I understand the main point of the piece, but not naming the German aristocrat detracts from its authenticity. It goes to the heart of whether the “silent majority” is innocent, or complicit.


11 posted on 04/01/2008 5:52:40 PM PDT by kenavi ("My mudder thanks you, my fodder thanks you, and Obama thanks you!")
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To: moonpie57; knighthawk

This is an excellent article.


12 posted on 04/02/2008 6:03:35 AM PDT by agrace
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To: moonpie57

Most probably the story is wholly allegorical. Dr. Tanay was born in 1928, so obviously didn’t own any factories in 1933. To have owned factories which were subsequently seized by the Nazis, the author would have to be maybe 125 years old.


13 posted on 04/02/2008 6:12:06 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: agrace
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence

Indeed

14 posted on 04/02/2008 1:34:55 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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