religion of peace?

Holocaust Survivor's View on Fanatic Islam


This is one of the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I
have read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not
long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this
email is Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well respected
psychiatrist .
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A Holocaust Survivor's View on Islam
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
manyenjoyed 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. 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,
because 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. 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, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes
this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness
that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send
this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read
this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.

Emanuel Tanay, M.D. 2980 Provincial St. Ann Arbor , MI 48104
* Dr. Emanuel Tanay MDis a well-known
forensic psychiatrist who has been an expert
witness in many famous cases. He has served as an officer or committee
member on the Michigan Psychiatric Society, the American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law, the American Psychiatric Association (APA),
and others. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology and of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry and a
distinguished fellow of the APA and the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences (AAFC).

A Holocaust survivor himself, Dr Tanay coauthored a book about the
survivors of the Holocaust and was asked by the German government
to consult on just compensation for the Holocaust survivors. Dr. Tanay
has served on several journal editorial boards, authored many
publications, and presented countless time on forensic medicine. His
efforts have also produced many awards and commendations from groups
such as the Michigan State Medical Society, APA, the Detroit Institute
of Technology, and AAFC, among other