Islam for non-Muslims - Peaceful majority

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.

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