Silent Majority

Reflect: Are we part of the silent majority?

Someone sent me a succinct article below and I counter-checked it out at several websites and the website below.
I thought the article thoroughly makes sense.

The author is:
Dr. Emanuel Tanay, MD Wayne State University Ann Arbor, Michigan
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/tanay/

Article
A German’s point of view on Islam
by Dr. Emanuel Tanay, 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 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 spectra 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’, 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, Afghanis, 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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Coming back to Biblical History and the History of Christianity, Christians and God-fearing Israelites too let the course of the country run even into rebellion and not trusting God when they keep silent. Gradually the minority become the majority.

Isaiah preached to Israel not to rely on Egypt to defend against the threat of Assyrian attack (Isa 30:2). But soon enough, the leaders and the counselors of the king would make a very human decision. Make alliances (i.e don't trust Isaiah's prophecy; probably not from God they thought).

Some would have listened to Isaiah. But their voices were powerless and drowned out.
And Israel was ultimately destroyed as a nation.

Our faith would have deviated much from the biblical idea of faith had not Martin Luther raised his concerns that salvation cannot be gained by works and that buying indulgences is not necessary to go to heaven.
By God's grace, he did not remain silent - even though he is the minority.

Thought For Reflection:
Do we remain silent when we notice a deviation from morality and biblical truth?
What ungodly trends in our society and culture do we notice? Are we speaking up?
What actions can we take to arrest the flame of fanaticism that lurks around us that can destroy our way of living?