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(This is a rather long post from my friend in Iraq.  He has lived in 10 countries, including Venezuela under the dictatorship.)

> German's View on Islam

> A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II 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 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.'

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> 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.

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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 honour 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', the 'silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.

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> 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 II 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.

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> 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: 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 awaken 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,

> Afghanis, 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, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is

> serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, that person

> 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, it is worth some discussion at least ...don't you think?

>