[GJM] Fw: A HISTORY LESSON FOR THE "PEACEFUL MAJORITY" AND MORE...

[marguerite hampton]

Hugh Cowan,  a former high-ranking military officer, now retired, not only
keeps us amused with all the wonderful graphic cartoons he sends and helps
keep the depression at bay with a good laugh each day,  

but gets serious sometimes as well.  This is one of those times. 

Thanks Hugh for all you do.   

 Waxing poetic here entirely accidental, I assure you.  

eco 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Hugh Cowan
Date: 01/31/07 17:40:48
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:,
Subject: Fw: A HISTORY LESSON FOR THE "PEACEFUL MAJORITY" AND MORE...
 
 
The following is sent to you today with the backdrop of the foiling of a 
terrorist plot in Great Britain to capture a British soldier of Muslim 
heritage, behead him, and broadcast this event on the worldwide internet.

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-wstovall


The Peaceful Majority

I used to know a man whose family was 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  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.

Reality: 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. 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 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 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, I wish to add, at the risk of offending someone, I sincerely  think 
that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or doubts the 
seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without sending it on, is part 
of the problem. Let's quit  laughing at and forwarding the jokes and 
cartoons which  denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war against 
terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well being of the US 
and its citizens. Best we support them!!!!!!!!

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