POWERFUL STATEMENT!
> Some sobering thoughts!
>
> 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 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
> z ealously 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 majorities 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 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, anyone who doubts that the issue
> is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, can
> contribute 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
