Why The Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant
By Paul E. Marek

I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to
World War Two. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I
asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he
gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever
since.

“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 unquantified 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 world wide. 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. The hard
quantifiable fact is, that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent
majority” and it 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 2 was not a war mongering sadist. Yet,
Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an
orgy of Killing that included the systematic killing 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 the
fanatics. 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, Bosnians, 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.
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John H