THE GERMAN VIEW OF 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 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 honour-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 its way across Southeast 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.
God bless you Ginger, you have hit the nail right on the head. If we forget history and fail to teach it truthfully to our young we run the risk of repeating it. When will we ever learn……….?
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So by that line of thinking we should be speaking out about the dangerous growth of Christianity, based on the frightening policies of some fundamentalist Christian groups. Peace-loving Muslims have hardly been silent, they just can’t be heard over the screams of people who call what they say ‘meaningless fluff’.
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This essay was apparently written by someone else – see http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6996 If he exists, Tanay received and widely forwarded the email entitled A Holocaust Survivor’s View on Islam, an essay originally written under the title Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant by a Canadian named Paul E. Marek who fled Czechoslovakiaas a child to escape the Nazis. This article implies that peace loving Muslims are silent about fanatical Muslims. There are a number of problems with this assertion. How does the author know this to be true? Where is it that the author would like the peace-loving Muslims to make known their disagreement with fanatics? By taking out ads in the New York Times ? By walking up and down outside the White House with placards? What influence would this have over fanatics or those who would listen to them? Isn’t it more likely that peace-loving muslims would be trying to work for peace in grass-roots organisatons, both in the muslim community and in interfaith and non-religious forums? Would we be likely to know this? Do you join in with muslims in inter-community activities?
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What purpose is served by painting all muslims as either terrorists or fools? Do you think this kind of labelling helps anyone? Do you know about the Irgun in Israel in the late 1940s? They killed innocent people, some of them their own people, because they thought they served a higher cause by creating terror for their occupiers, the British. I don’t agree with them, and many prominent Jews including Albert Einstein did not at the time, and they spoke up, but to little avail. The terrorists paid them no attention, being convinced that their cause was higher than any considerations of humanity or morality. Whether or not you think they were justified, they were heroes to some and terrorists to others. History is very rarely simple as far as I can tell.
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I disagree with that philosophy too. In WW2, there was that same mistrust and hatred of the Japanese, and that’s what led to the Canadian gov’t seizing the homes and businesses of over 20,000 hard-working, honest Japanese immigrants in western Canada, and making them live in internment camps. The same philosophy leads to pre-judging and prejudice all around the world.
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There are huge communities, even nations, of peace-loving Muslims. Jews and Christians live peacefully and happily side by side with Muslims in Turkey and Malaysia, both Muslim countries. I know there is a fear of ‘what will happen if we don’t stop them’. I too have a fear of the radicals, and as a Christian, I feel that they are WRONG in their religious beliefs.
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But I believe that messages like the one you copied and pasted here spread distrust and hatred, not peace and brother/sisterhood. I think we need to reach out to Muslims in our communities, not demand that they do. It’s a complicated subject, that’s for sure! ryn: Well, do you have an iphone? If so, then yes, you can download the HomeBudget app. If not, what phone do you have?
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Beware of individuals or groups that make this comparison between these two: “frightening policies of some fundamentalist Christian groups” and “Peace-loving Muslims” . That comparison is almost laughable. To compare Christian groups lead by a God of Peace, to a political organization lead by a leader who took a child-bride, that is yes, almost laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
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Hitler’s moderate Germans were silent also, but still , in their silence, the murdered the Jewish people.
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This is all so true, Thank you for putting this in your diary. So much we can learn from history. Thanks so much. Love,
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makes sense
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I think the article brushes with too broad a stroke, as does Al-Jeezra (spelled wrong, too rushed to correct) on the other side. They are neither fanatics nor peace-lovers. They are ordinary people. Prejudice can rear its ugly head in so many forms and anarchy has a way of exploding, but I think what’s inside you steers what you do in times of unrest. I saw it in the looters after the hurricane. Those who would turn you over to a new government’s “reeducation camp” are the very same ones who will rob you after a hurricane. Look at what happened in the sports arena after Katrina…people were robbed, women raped, etc. A horrible human being uses any excuse to show his or her ugly side. People are universal, I think…good, bad, and all those shades in between. I do worry about the fanatics. I laugh at the women who so vehemently defend a religion (altered, NOT the original Islam, which does not condone Taliban actions) that would keep them in the dirt. RYN: I’m writing web page content. Sometimes boring, sometimes fun.
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This article bothers me, bothers me a lot. I’ve had continuing contact with Muslims for nearly 50 years. As MamaBlue says, they are ordinary people, just like the rest of us, as various as the rest of us. I was astonished to read “The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history” Oh yes? Where? They certainly don’t rule the Islam I know, any more than the fundamental hate-filled Christians rule Christianity. Yes, fanaticism is frightening, in religion, in politics, anywhere. But sweeping generalisations muddy the waters more, can lead to more fanatics. So does comparing apples and oranges (a national movement in Germany with an international movement today) I think we need to be very wary of any articles that encourage fear rather than increased knowledge and understanding.
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interesting to see that this article was actually written by a Jew….so that invalidates some of the assertions for starters. It has very few valid points . For one, I have never heard of Islam as being considered ‘The Religion of Peace’ … but most Muslims who are very peace loving people..just as there are peace lovers and fanatics in all cultures, countries and religions. In that same vane…all those religions that have clergy will have fanatics …usually incited by clergy, who hold great mind-bending power. This is an interesting angle but it is simply one person’s bias perspective. Hugs P
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During the 30s and 40s the Germans were ordinary people too.
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Ginger, check out the videos at my site, this is the truth, straight from the emoms mouth, . The liberals have their eyes closed to the violence that is happening all over the world under the name of islam. SignedY.
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