This one showed up a few days ago, and has been widely circulated in the past few weeks. I suspect many of you have seen it and read it. I have highlighted the parts I found most amusing, my response to this follows the email.
The Email
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German View of Islam
This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr.
Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.
Is this what Glen Beck has been warning us about? The march in Washington was a clear sign that America needs to "wake up" and realize that there is still time to put in "check" the present administration and tell them we are "on to them"!
A German's View on Islam
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War, 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 andthe 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 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. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers..
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 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 Southeast 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 awaken 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, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, 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 and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.
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End Email
I would like to know who uses the word "Orgy" when discussing a massacre? The way I see it the author of this only used the word to add shock value.
My Response to this:
Wow, what a fascinating piece of absolute garbage this is. I find it beyond amusing that a message of warning about the importance of involvement has been twisted from its original meaning in to something deigned to further incite fear and mistrust of people not like us. The facts, yes most Germans were not true Nazi's and most saw the Nazi political movement as a return to German pride and fundamental values. However rather than compare them to the Muslims, let’s compare them to two parties that they more closely resemble, The Neo Conservatives, and the Tea Party (both parties in the United States, not radical Islam). The Nazi rise to power was done in stages and was by all historical accounts conducted brilliantly (even though it was for completely nefarious means). Many are unaware of why the Nazi's were allowed to rise to power and the answer lays in Joseph Goebbels the Nazi party Propaganda minister. What everyone should know and remember is the Nazi's did not "seize" control by force, they did so through a brilliantly executed propaganda campaign aimed at two things, German pride and fear, and using these items were able to gain a majority seat in German parliament. The first item, German pride, is easy to explain, it’s obvious that most people want a reason to be proud of their country, however pride has a funny way of slipping in to the realm of viewing yourself as superior to others and such makes you feel as though you have right to judge. We are all guilty of this even me, however it is important to realize it and reel it back when it goes too far, a quality that the Tea Party and most Neo Cons do not possess. The second item is fear, in both the case of the United States and Germany it is fear of a shadowy, and mostly intangible enemy, which according to the party pushing the message is "Hell bent on destroying our way of life". The truth is, we are doing the job of the "Radical Islamists" for them, as we allow our own radicals (like Glenn Beck) to sow the seeds of unrest and xenophobia in to our population and thus preventing real progress in our society. The crater that still remains in New York City is proof, as rebuilding ground zero is beleaguered by petty squabbling over what should be allowed there. If we allow emails like this to circulate then we only further the position of divisive nut jobs that require your fear to give their message power. I recommend anyone that thinks the message I have referenced here is legit, go to a Mosque or prayer center and meet these so called shadowy evil people hell bent on destroying our way of life. I think you will find most, if not all of them, are more afraid of you then you are of them and that all they want are the same things you do, safety, security, and prosperity for them and their families. Some people will say “Well that doesn’t include the extremists” your right it doesn’t, but if you don’t think for one minute that we have more American’s in the United States plotting the destruction of our country than we do Muslims than your SORELY misinformed.
I will leave this entry with a quote and a thought:
“They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
- Pastor Martin Niemöller
If you don’t know who Martin Niemöller is I suggest you look him up, his writings’ will give you great insight to what we may face as Americans in the future. Except one major difference, ours will look like this…
They came first for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim…
We still have the ability to choose to adhere to what is right and good about our great nation, and to live by the qualities of freedom for all that we tout in front of the world. Our freedoms are what make us the envy of all other nations, if we sacrifice them to fear of that which is different than we are no better than those we fight.
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