Pretty powerful essay.
The author  of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well  respected psychiatrist.
A German's View of  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, 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 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 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. 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 or bayonet. 
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 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.
Emanuel Tanay, M.D.
2980 Provincial St. Ann Arbor , MI  48104
734-997-0256
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