THE RELIGION OF PEACE

As my readers know, I have published a number of blogs on the true believers in Islam. Last January, I blogged "The Peaceful Silent Muslim Majority" (1-5-08) which included exerpts from an essay on "peaceful" Muslims by Emanuel Tanay, a respected psychiatrist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here are some of the same exerpts, as well as additional comments subsequently made by Dr. Tanay:

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. 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. 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.

So, here we sit in America with several million peaceful Muslims living amongst us. Was it not the peaceful Muslims that were seen cheering in the streets as the towers fell? They may not have blown them up, but they certainly were supportive of the deed. Not all Muslims of course, certainly not.

I didn't see any demonstrations by Muslims after 911 protesting what others of their faith had done however. Hundreds of peacful Muslims have come across our borders illegally or have overstayed their visas and so far they have done nothing of a terrorist nature. They are "peaceful" so far.

Millions attend their mosques that are headed by radical Imams right here in America and in Washington DC in particular, who preach a decidedly non-peaceful agenda. So far, the peaceful majority have not acted on these words, but we are left to wonder why these radical Muslims are allowed to stay here to poison the minds of the peaceful majority?

They are using our freedom of religion laws against us. They are using our freedom of speech laws against us. They are using our freedom of assembly laws against us. The legions of peacful Muslims in this country have only to do nothing and provide a cover for the not so peaceful minority and they become passive co-conspirators.

I am wondering where the outrage is amongst the peaceful majority here? Why are they not throwing out the hate mongers in their mosques? Why are they donating to radical causes in the middle east? Why are they sending their Muslim-American sons to the middle east to learn the old non-peaceful ways and then come back here to influence the remaining millions that as yet appear peaceful?

Those that are peaceful and vocal that terrorism is not to be tolerated should be allowed to stay, those that sit quietly are a huge potential future terrorist problem and should be shown the door. The non-Muslim majority of this country should deal with this potential problem from a position of strength and intolerance of the terrorists intolerance.

The truly peacful majority of Muslims should start cleaning up their communities and irradicating the non-peaceful minority by turning them in to homeland security and helping the rest of us to feel secure in having any Muslim in our country.

It is getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the minority and the majority. As the majority starts to demand that this country bend to their religious and cultural standards, the more we give in to them, the more emboldened they will become.

Personally, I can't see myself in a burkha. I am done compromising on anything heading in the Muslim direction..