The Crime of Silent aloofness

"A German's point of view on Islam"

> by Dr. Emanuel Tanay, Psychiatrist

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War ll 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 ll 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, that 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.