This is an adaptation from, and not a verbatim copy of, an article by Dr. Emmanuel Tanay, a respected psychiatrist.
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to WWII, owned a number of large industrial concerns and estates; when asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave may be an indication of some of the realities we currently face and are living through…
“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 thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools who eventually would go away… 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 as we knew it, came. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and my family lost everything.”
We are told, again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace and are normal people just like us. Although these assertions may be true, they are 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 on the name of Islam and other causes, and here in our own backyard with other types of extremisms.
The fact is that the fanatics/extremists rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics/extremists who march. It is the fanatics/extremists who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics/extremists who systematically slaughter Christians or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics/extremists who bomb, behead, murder or honor-kill. It is the fanatics/extremists who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics/extremists who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics/extremists who teach their young to kill and 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 under the Stalin regime were responsible for the murder of about 20 million of Russians and other Soviet 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 under Mao's Cultural Revolution.
The average Japanese individual prior to WWII was not a war mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an bloody 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 the butchering of millions of innocent civilians by a small minority of fanatics/extremists? Could it not be said that the vast majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’ people?
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 people are made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving people will become tacit accomplices of the extremist minority if they don’t speak up because, like the German man mentioned above, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics/extremists own them, and that the end of their world has begun.
Peace loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many, many others died because the peaceful majority did not speak up against the fanatics/extremists 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/extremists who threaten our way of life!
Editorial Note:
We are currently witnessing how a small group of fanatics/extremists in position of power are managing to derail the country’s economy and the future of the republic as we know it. They were sent there by their fanatic/extremists constituents to destabilize the system, create chaos and eventually impose their will; nothing else matters; no other ways are feasible; no other opinions count; bye-bye democracy! Unless the vast ‘silent majority’ acts decisively and send these fanatics/extremists back to where they came from, we are on our way to be ‘owned’ by them. For many years, around the world, the word German was synonymous of Nazi; unless the vast 'silent majority' act decisively starting now, the word American will become synonymous of right-wing-extremist!
Excellent, Miguel!
ReplyDeleteSomeone of note said recently, and I paraphrase: 'I found all I wanted to know about Islam with 9/11.'
Of course, we must live under the rule of law or we face anarchy and thuggery. The silent majority tends toward apathy and exclusion, seemingly unwilling to rebel against a liberal juggernaut bent on changing a nation and corrupting its youth with its secular insanity... It seems we cannot bring ourselves to learn from history's lessons. Meanwhile, we virtually languish at the gate of some infidel 'new order'.
I'm old but not blameless in this new 'entitlement' world, and, alas, I can now only fight a battle with my words... I pray our country can somehow bring back the spirit of the 'greatest generation' --- those who fought and gave their lives on foreign beaches and alien land so that our freedom, our democracy might survive. When most of our people want to live off the efforts of the few, hope dwindles and the power elite prevail.