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Sep 10 08 2:45 AM

A German's Point of View on Fanaticism


Here is something that was written in a German newspaper. I think you may find this view quite interesting as did I.

A little food for thought.
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 manyenjoyed the return of German pride, and many morewere too busy to care. I was one of those who justthought 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 hadlost control, and the end of the world had come. Myfamily lost everything. I ended up in a concentrationcamp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and talkingheads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and thatthe vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.I also believe it to be so.Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it isentirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meantto take us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.The fact is Islam has been hijacked by these fanatics.

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 warsworldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter people 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. 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 by these fanatics.

China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.The peaceful majority was irrelevant by these fanatics.

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 14 million Chinese civilians;most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. The peaceful majority was made irrelevant by these fanatics.

And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?The peaceful majority was made irrelevant by these fanatics.

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, andmany others have died because the peaceful majoritydid not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must payattention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

It is a serious heart-felt request from a german who saw the fanatics and criminals taking control of germany under Hitler JUST because of the silent majority.And we all had to take the blame for the crimes of those few and justifiably too.
My muslim friends,please do not let these fanatics with a narrow and intolerant world-view hijack your religion.Speak before it is too late....
It also a serious request to all others-Hindus,jews,sikhs,christians alike- to speak against such intolerant people and groups with in their own communities and also strengthen the hands of peace-loving muslim brethren by supporting them in their efforts.Let Klu Klux Klans,Vishv Hindu parishads or similar hate spitting organisations in any religions not flourish.
This can only be made possible by SPEAKING UP AGAINST THEM,MY FRIENDS.[B][U]