This is a repost from the Ranting Penguin.

This is one of the best
explanations of the Muslim
terrorist situation I have 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 a Canadian named
Paul E Marek who fled
Czechoslovakia as a child to
escape the Nazis.
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.'
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 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 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.
Posted by Catosays at 11:00
Repeated by The Penguin