A German's View on Islam!

This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well respected psychiatrist.


A German's View on Islam


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 a 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. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

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 it's 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, 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.

Awesome and TRUE!!

The lesson here

"Wars are often waged by government or the powers that be, not necessarily by the will of the people" . True


But


The comparisons of pre- Nazi Germans and 21 st century Islamics merits a closer look.

1) We don't look back on the Nazis as the "Fanatic Christians". Nor should we.They were ,"Christians" bent on killing Jews. but that is not fundamentally who the Nazi's were.To think so is a logical error of the first order.

2) The powers that be sometimes ride the crest of high unemployment, and fear of takeover,(by Communists), in the case of Germany and by Israel in the case of Gaza.
Furthermore,to simplify that Rwandans Serb,s Palestinians, Iraqi's have the same potential as that Pre WWll Germany 'Just speak up" , is not evaluating all the political, social and ECONOMIC differences .War is ,by definition ,a political process...but has many courses that are complex. If there is a power vacuum, as their would be if Hamas is gone ,there are others that will come ,perhaps more militant, to fill the gap .Unemployed, disenfranchised, disillusioned ,angry,people will always be a liability.

"Speaking up" , definitely help,s but it took TV reality and 50,000 body bags to get the American people to speak up enough about Vietnam to get us out.We bought the domino theory of Communist take-over hook ,line ,and sinker.

Germany had a sophisticated and highly trained workforce , resources and therefore a potential for an industrialized comeback with no more violence.Not to mention the Marshall Plan to rebuild the country. If this did not occur there would be continued disruption in Europe and the ensuing violence would have been possible .Militant perhaps pro-Christian / anti Jewish regimes would have had a foothold , but this would not have been about religion .

3) The 2 Bush , for example,wars were unable to stablize Iraq because Iraqi's are poor, undereducated and underemployed.If Iraq were Christian, as disrupted ,as threatened, by perceived or real issues , violence would be the order of the day.

Bottom line

Strife,militancy,violence and wars will always be part of the mid-east landscape.The "Arian Race" as posed by the Nazis was a galvanizing concept for the unemployed Brownshirts ,but that was a convenient excuse for the methodology and the real motivations of the times.'Islamic indifference" is a small part of the picture , but not the full historical, cultural, economic reason for the continuing disruption of the area.