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Skriven 2007-01-30 06:37:27 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: History Lesson
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This was posted in a local chat group by a guy I know. Pass it along as he
makes sense.


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We're reminded that those who fail to heed the lessons of history are doomed to
repeat it.


The Peaceful Majority

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 Two 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 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:  at the risk of offending someone, 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 sending it on, is part of
the problem. Let's 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 US and its citizens. Best we
support them.

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