WE
NEED TO WAKE
UP!
I used to
know a man
whose family
was German
aristocracy
prior to
World War
Two. 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
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 group
s 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” is
the “silent
majority”
and it 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
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 2
was not a
warmongering
sadist. Yet,
Japan
murdered and
slaughtered
its way
across South
East Asia in
an org y 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, I
wish to add:
I sincerely
think that
anyone who
rejects this
as just
another
political
rant, or
doubts the
seriousness
of this
issue is
part of the
problem.
Lets quit
laughing at
and
forwarding
the jokes
and cartoons
which
denigrate
and ridicule
our leaders
in this war
against
terror. They
are trying
to protect
the
interests
and well
being of the
world and
it’s
citizens.
Best we
support
them!
This piece
was sent to
me by an old
friend and
retired
business
executive
living in an
affluent
suburb of
Detroit.
I don’t know
who wrote
it. Wilson
Crabtree
