Tension and Violence

by Glenn N. Holliman

The tension and violence engendered by extreme Islam is a reality in our time.  Islam is one of the three great faiths to emerge from the Middle East, and today unfortunately a faith with some adherents who have embraced the uglier side of its history.  My good friend in Australia, a woman of insight and perception, has passed the following along for our pondering.

The birds in the picture gather in Steph's garden sharing the scarce water of the dry season in South Australia.    Would only the human race share resources and space as generously as these magnificent and colorful creatures! - GNH

'In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends'.     Martin Luther King

A German's view on Islam         The author of this email is Dr Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.  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 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 spectre 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.  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.     'Now Islamic prayers have been introduced in Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in  Ottawa, too, while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?) The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in.     'In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, 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. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation's shores.     'In the U.K, the Muslim communities 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. Sharia 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.'  Comments: From Telbertofoutremer   I am impressed with the brave, honest truthful note written above. I anything, the disaster of coercive violence is understated. I have written along similar lines in this blog spot. Had the writer written this in Britain I would be prosecuted for Hate Speech ( Orwell is alive and well! and imprisoned. The massive rapefest against enormous numbers of non-muslim girls by some muslim men has been hidden by the corrupt in Britain. In Britian a small group of extreme nationalists and much worse run the agenda and nobody has the guts and the focus to stop them. Brexit is in my mind an example of modern day xenophobia and has much in common with central Europe in the 1930s. THANK YOU for this BRAVE HONEST NOTE!!!!! MY father in law lost all in Germany, a massive fortune was lost and destroyed. He never recovered the destruction of the path of his life.  I hope the writer of this excellent note has found tranquility.