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> >>> _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 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 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: 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. 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 
> >>>  *****US**** and it's citizens. Best we support them.  **