The Best Explanation That I've Ever Found on Islamic Fanaticism

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Jim at Conservatives on Fire found a link that had this posted in the comment section and gave it to me.
It is simply the best explanation I have ever read regarding the state of Islam. It was well worth reposting here. I wish I would have written it myself.


German’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 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 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, 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.
 
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Governments run by fanatical ideologies seem to always lead to lots of dead people. Sadly that history lesson is unlearned by many Americans.

Fanatical Islam is a terrible danger to our nation. Liberalism allows fanatical Islam to thrive with it's crazy political correctness and hatred of traditional America. And Liberalism rules America today.
 
I love simple, to the point, ideas.

Cashmcall, do you have a link to where you found this?
 
I love simple, to the point, ideas.

Cashmcall, do you have a link to where you found this?
Jim at Conservatives on Fire found a link that had this posted in the comment section and sent it to me by way of e-mail.. What comment section I don't know.. I will try and find out
 
Jim at Conservatives on Fire found a link that had this posted in the comment section and gave it to me.
It is simply the best explanation I have ever read regarding the state of Islam. It was well worth reposting here. I wish I would have written it myself.

I am no fan of religion, but let me just point out a few glaring statements, presented as fact, which are in fact nonsense

German’s View on Islam
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is
the fanatics who march.

This is nonsense. Nobody 'rules' Islam. There are many different sects, and extremism, while being very vocal, is a small and unrepresentative segment of the total Islamic faith.

This is a wild, and utterly incorrect premise to base the argument, rendering everything henceforth essentially null and void.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent
majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.

Numerous Muslim groups speak out against every atrocity when it occurs.

Please quantify this fact with figures if it is 'quantifiable.' Do you speak out against every Christian atrocity... I assume not. Does that make you owed and extraneous?

Why are all peaceful Muslims obliged to speak out against every single act of terror, when they believe the people committing such acts do not represent them?

And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be
said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?

The incident in Rwanda, the atrocities in communist Russia, and Japan prove that horrific violence is nothing to do with Islam specifically, but human nature more broadly.

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.

Once again, I fear it is your warped perception of the power and frequency of radical Muslims that has led you to believe this, rather than any clear evidence.
 
My take, according to the OP, was the comparison of the Nazi takeover to what they see happening in Islam. While we all have our own opinions on how we view Islam, this is the experience of this German. Apparently there is something very familiar and disconcerting to him.

There is no denying that there is not a radical element to Islam. But what are the percentages? What were the percentages of Germans who were on board with Nazism and how many true Nazis were in positions of power?
 
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My take, according to the OP, was the comparison of the Nazi takeover to what they see happening in Islam. While we all have our own opinions on how we view Islam, this is the experience of this German. Apparently there is something very familiar and disconcerting to him.

There is no denying that there is not a radical element to Islam. But what are the percentages? What were the percentages of Germans who were on board with Nazism and how many true Nazis were in positions of power?


in the only poll i ever saw gauging the.sentiment of arabs in the ME fully 25% were ok wirh murderous acts. a further 25% thoght it might be depending on the articulars.
 
in the only poll i ever saw gauging the.sentiment of arabs in the ME fully 25% were ok wirh murderous acts. a further 25% thoyght it might be depending on the oarticulars.


I would be interested to see how the questions were phrased, and to see this concrete figures. I think it unlikely that 25% of Muslims would agree with the statement 'I am okay with murderous acts.'
 
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in the only poll i ever saw gauging the.sentiment of arabs in the ME fully 25% were ok wirh murderous acts. a further 25% thoght it might be depending on the articulars.

We had some pretty high numbers here too, where American Muslims were sympathetic towards the terrorists.
 
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at least as true as the quaint notion that muslims are almost exclusivley againt the violence their scrilture calls for.

I decided to actually locate some facts, rather than speculating about an old, unknown poll. Here is a poll from the very reputable Gallup surveys:

- “At least half of Muslims in most countries surveyed say they are concerned about religious extremist groups in their country.”
- “In most countries where a question about so-called 'honor' killings was asked, majorities of Muslims say such killings are never justified.”
- "In most countries where the survey asked Muslims about religious extremism, more than 75% say suicide and other violence against civilians is rarely or never justified.”
- “In only seven of the 38 countries where the question was asked do at least half of Muslims describe conflict between religious groups as a very big national problem.”
- “In 31 of the 37 countries where the question was asked, at least half of Muslims believe ademocratic government, rather than a leader with a strong hand, is best able to address their country’s problems.”
The survey does justify concern over support for radical Islam, particularly in the so-called emerging democracies of the Muslim world. For example:
- “Four in 10 Palestinian Muslims see suicide bombing as often or sometimes justified.”
- “In Afghanistan, a substantial minority of Muslims (39%) say that this form of violence against civilian targets is often or sometimes justifiable in defense of Islam.”
- “In Egypt, about three in 10 (29%) consider suicide bombing justified at least sometimes.”
Now, I would like to once against clarify I do not like Islam. I do not "like" any organised religion. However, I do not believe Islam to be inherently, overwhelmingly radical in the modern age. It is more radicalized than Christianity at the moment no doubt. The last few statistics in particular are unacceptable.

However, I do not believe, as the original poster has stated, that the major voice of Islam is one of radicalism and extremism. These points, using facts and figures, rather than wild and unfounded speculation, seem to prove my point.
 
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