A German's Point of View on Islam

This man's family was German aristocracy prior to World War ll
& 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 ust 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 spectra 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 ribal 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 killing. 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," 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
or 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 ll 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
riend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find what
the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have
begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans,
Serbs, Afghanis, 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, at the risk of offending anyone who doubts that the issue
is serious is contributing to the passiveness that allows the
problems to expand.

So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us
hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it
- and send it on.

Emanuel Tanay, M.D.
2980 Provincial St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-997-0256
drtanay@umich.edu
Dr. Emanuel Tanay is a well known and well respected psychiatrist.