[Rhodes22-list] Author unknown, but interesting.

[Brad Haslett]

Thanks Rummy, good stuff!  Brad

On 1/29/07, R22RumRunner at aol.com <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
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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. **
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> >  >>> **"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. **
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> > >>> **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. **
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> > >>> **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.  **
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> >  >>> **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"? ***
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> > >>>  **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: **
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> >  >>> **Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their
> >  >>> silence. **
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> > >>>  **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. ***
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> > >>> **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. **
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> > >>> **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.  **
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> > >>> **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.  **
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