THE PEACEFUL SILENT MUSLIM MAJORITY

A good friend sent me an essay by Emanuel Tanay, M.D., a well known and well respected psychiatrist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Tanay noted the failure by the Muslim peaceful silent majority to stand up against the worldwide atrocities committed by Islamic fanatics, comparing their silence to that of the Germans during the Nazi era. For brevity purposes, I cherry picked some of Dr. Tanay's remarks.

"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 qualified 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. Tlhe 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ are gradually taking over the entire (African) continent in an Islamic wave. _ _ _ _ _ _ The hard quantifiable fact is that the 'peaceful majority', the 'silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.

_ _ _ _ _ _ Peace loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up because _ _ _ _ _ _ they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them _ _ _ _ _ _"

Where Dr. Tanay sees the Islamists as "fanatics", I see them as Muslim fundamentalists. Islam has never been a religion of peace. The fundamentalists continue to follow the warrior Prophet Muhammad's call to arms, to conquer the world and to kill the infidels who refuse to convert to Islam. The Muslim fundamentalists are the true believers in the Islamic faith.

While many Muslims are undoubtably cowed by the Islamists, there is more to the silence of the vast majority than meets the eye. It is my firm belief that the real reason Muslims in the Western World do not stand up to the fundamentalists is because subconsciously they approve of Islam's global jihad against the infidels.

Even though most Germans were never card carrying Nazi party members, the vast majority subconsciously, if not openly, approved of Hitler's attempts to exterminate Europe's Jews. Just like the Germans under Hitler, deep down in their hearts the vast majority of Muslims in the West are proud of the jihad waged by Islamists to dominate the world.

Dr. Tanay concluded his remarks by throwing out this challenge: "As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts, the fanatics (Muslim fundamentalists) who threaten our way of life." I suggest we insist that the peaceful majority of Muslims break their silence throughout the Western World with a demonstrative demand for an end to the global Islamic militancy.