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
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" 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 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 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 or just deletes it without
paying heed to it, or sending it on, 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.
William Haynes
BCRC NOTE: Neither should you or I be part of the "Peaceful
Majority" that dare not enter the dueling views of political
discourse. As voters in the most powerful nation in the
world, it is our duty to enter the discussion, develop opinions,
express those views and defend them and adjust them when better
ideas are presented. We have a duty to protect freedom by
electing leaders who know the important role America plays in the
world as the "Shining City on the Hill" as Ronald Reagan said.
Republicans, you must not be silent. You must fight at
home for freedom and liberty as strongly as our troops do abroad.
We owe our troops that, we owe ourselves that, and we owe our
children that.
