What can we do to better enable the world to understand the threat to world peace posed by Islamic extremists?

Answer 1

I got this as an email. If you agree with the message, send it by email around the world. The more the message is heard by ordinary people, Muslims especially, the more likley it is that the trend can be reversed.

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.

The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" is the "silent majority" and it is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia comprised 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, it was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 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 by perception if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awake 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. Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, can contribute to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.

Answer 2

I agree with you that violent Islamic zealots are danger to peace, a threat every bit as real and serious as that of the Nazi bunds in the 1930s. But USAs actions viz a viz these zealots have made it clear that the United States Government (or at least Bush & Co) are a threat to world peace in their own right, somewhat taking the spotlight off the zealots.

If USA had continued to address the zealots as an international law enforcement problem, rather than as an excuse to invade a sovereign nation only tangentally connected with the zealots, then we'd now be looking back at 5 years of mostly successful law enforcement efforts instead of 5 years mostly failed military adventures. The spotlight would have remained on the zealot's wrongdoings, and not have shifted to the more spectacular wrongdoings of US forces occupying Iraq.

My analogy is feuding neighbors. If Bob is firing paintballs at Jim's house and car, Bob is clearly in the wrong -- a danger to the peace of the neighborhood. If Jim responds by calling law enforcement, Jim has taken appropriate action toward restoring and maintaining the peace of the neighborhood. But if Jim responds by counter-attacking Bob's house, Jim makes himself also culpable in threatening the peace.

Alternatively, Jim could have gone to the neighborhood association, presented some misleading half-truths pointing to Dave as the "real" miscreant, and led a posse to attack Dave's house. It doesn't take a crystal ball to know how neighborhood talk would go -- especially if it is common knowledge that Jim has a long standing feud with Dave.

So to get back to your question: What we can do better is stop acting like a juvenile gangboy -- "He dissed me man, and whatever he does, I'm gonna do the same but worse" -- and resume acting like the leader of the free world.

Answer 3

Play a loop of the 2 aircraft hitting the WTC towers, 24/7 on their favorite channel ?
But seriously, how dense do you have to be to Not be aware of the Terrorist's insanity ?
I mean, Spain, England, All the places where they've demonstrated what depth of hatred they harbor in their crazy fanatic minds.

Answer 4

The best way is exposing their crimes to the world in the media. However the media have to keep the focus of exposing the crime and the criminals. Nowdays the Media focused are their energies in blaming the President of the US for going to war.

Answer 5

You can scream fire only so many times.People will smell smoke but refuse to leave until it is to late. The world will soon have to come to grips with the terrorist or suffer the consequence of their non action! For some.....it may be too late!!

Answer 6

I suspect that most people recognize the threats. They just don't want to deal with it. Do just what you have done here: keep the message in front of the public.

Answer 7

PR baby. Get the word out. Educate, publicize, make the results real to people who are not directly affected.

Answer 8

Do you advise like the extremist Catholics in eire who place bombs in crowded procuring centres? Do you advise like extremist Protestants in eire who place bombs in procuring centres and kill many harmless human beings? i might SHOOT THEM like the SCUM that they are. there are a number of instantces of extremist Christians yet i've got by no skill heard of an extremist agnostic bombing the harmless

Answer 9

More people bringing up the issue, more news on their atrocities. They should be informed that 72 virgins don't await them but hell sure does.

Answer 10

Well they have been at others for quite some time and that time the US was helping them only recently the friendship has been broken (after 9/11). Welcome to the reality.