The Peaceful Majority
This is simply excellent.Hat Tip: Toby in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York
The Peaceful MajorityRead the whole thing.
by William Haynes
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.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:49 PM
2 Comments:
Then we (the non-muslim world) need to wake and start fighting back, before the 21st century's analogs of the invasion of Poland Dunkirk punch us in the collective nose.
I'm always surprised at how often I run into this article. It was originally written by my fellow blogger Paul Marek, here:
http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html
I think the authorship confusion started when it was emailed around without proper credit.
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