Apostolic Friends Forum - e mail I recieved

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to
> > World War Two, 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."
> >
> > 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
> > takingover 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" the "silent majority" is cowed and
> > extraneous.
> >
> > Communist Russia comprised 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, it 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, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts
> > that the issue is serious and just deletes this
> > email without sending it on, you contribute 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.
> >