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January 27th 2008 01:15
I got this today from a dear friend of mine. It's worth a great deal of cnsideration. Remember the old adage about learning from history or repeating it?
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.."A German's point of view on Islam"
>
> by Dr. Emanual 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, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems
> of 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.
>
>
> Emanuel Tanay, M.D.
>
> Ann Arbor , MI
>
> ----------------------------- -------
>
> So sad, there is so much truth in this email, but right now I'm
> not as concerned about the Muslims as I am about the Silent
> Majority here in America, who don't seem to perceive or care
> about the Social, Political, Religious and Family destruction
> here in America. The Muslims might be the ones who add the
> coups de grāce, but even without them we seem to be in a self
> destruct mode! jb
>
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............................. ............................. ............................. ............................. .............................
.."A German's point of view on Islam"
>
> by Dr. Emanual 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, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems
> of 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.
>
>
> Emanuel Tanay, M.D.
>
> Ann Arbor , MI
>
> ----------------------------- -------
>
> So sad, there is so much truth in this email, but right now I'm
> not as concerned about the Muslims as I am about the Silent
> Majority here in America, who don't seem to perceive or care
> about the Social, Political, Religious and Family destruction
> here in America. The Muslims might be the ones who add the
> coups de grāce, but even without them we seem to be in a self
> destruct mode! jb
>
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