I found this article last week at Frontpage. Just shows how it could all happen again.
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21447
> 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.
>>
>> 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 comprised 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 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: 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 paying
>> heed to it, or sending it on, is part of the problem. Lets
>> 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 world and it’s citizens. Best we
>> support them.
>>
>>
>
I couldn’t watch it all:((
I saw enough.
Link below sounds like it would be worthwhile to be there and I wish I could.
http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/FlexPage.aspx?area=2006_year_end_report
I found this article last week at Frontpage. Just shows how it could all happen again.
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21447
> 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.
>>
>> 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 comprised 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 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: 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 paying
>> heed to it, or sending it on, is part of the problem. Lets
>> 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 world and it’s citizens. Best we
>> support them.
>>
>>
>