A German's View Of Fanaticism

by Emanuel Tanya

Pre-World War II, very few people in my native Germany were true Nazis but many were too busy to care. I was one of those who thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools while the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Before we knew it, the Nazis owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of our former German world had come.
My family lost everything. My family's various businesses & factories were destroyed, and I ended in a Nazi concentration camp.

Today, we are told again and again by experts and talking heads that Islam is a 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 Islamic fanatics who march.
• It is the Islamic fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.
• It is the Islamic fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire African continent in an Islamic wave.
• It is the Islamic fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, and honor-kill.
• It is the Islamic fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.
• It is the Islamic fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.
• It is the Islamic fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
• The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the so-called 'Silent Majority', is cowed and extraneous.

Let us remember that:

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.

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 friends in Germany before WW II, 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 Silent Majority did not speak up until it was too late.

Now Islamic prayers have been introduced in Toronto and other public schools in Ontario , and, yes, in Ottawa ,too, while the Lord's Prayer has been banned because it is offensive(?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in.

In many, if not all, countries around the world today, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket, the halal emblem is stamped on them. Airlines serve halal food to appease the privileged Islamic fanatical minority who are now rapidly expanding in every shore.

In the United Kingdom, the Muslim communities now refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of "no-go" zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon, and Shari'a law prevails there because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law. 

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.’

Anyone who doubts that the issue is serious is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. 

Let us hope that today's Silent Majority world-wide read and think seriously about the fast spreading fanaticism of a relative few before it's too late, and we are silenced because we were complacent and chose to be silent.

About the article's author. . .Emanuel Tanya is a German Jew and a psychiatrist. His family owned several businesses before the Nazis took over Germany; all of the family's businesses and factories were destroyed during World War II.

-Contributed by Ralph