Y Saturday, January 10, 2009
F is for the Fanatics
Fabulous morning to my dearest B's and G's!
Recently, my dad showed me this article which is really thought- provoking on terrorism. Here goes....
A German's view on APR*
A man, whose family was German aristocracy pior to WW2, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our atitude 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 thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority 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 APR* is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of it's believers just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless stuff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics ramapaging across the globe in the name of APR*.
The hard quatifiable 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 abnobut 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 WW2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across SEA in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civillians.
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and umcomplicated of points : Peace- loving citizens have been made irrelevant by their silence and social/ political apathy.
As for the rest of us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
* A Particular Religion
The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well- respected psychiatrist.
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