I live in Australia. I had written this immediately after I received the email quoted below from someone. Somehow I decided to observe ‘peace’ and did not send it out straight away. With the Australian election looming, I now speak for the silent majority both in the West as well in the East. Some of you may feel like forwarding it to others.

To add some fuel to the fire…in the Judo-Christian propaganda war against Islam and Muslims, using ‘fanatic phenomenon’ as a cause rather than as an effect…

I know first-hand what it is like to be subjected to fanaticism. I was born in a peace-loving community that has been persecuted relentlessly for more than 100 years by the fanatics. When very young, returning from our local primary school, often my elder brother and I were stoned and verbally abused by a gang of local kids. I was only 8 years old but remember it vividly when we had to flee our home with just the clothes we were wearing at the time. The house was saved but how can I forget the loss of our beloved library containing many rare hand-written manuscripts that were taken out by the illiterate mob and burnt in the street? Many belonging to my community and personally known and loved by me have been killed, jailed or driven out of Pakistan by the fanatics. Over time, I have come to reconcile myself with the fact that those kids and fanatics were illiterate, ignorant, hooligans and vandals not driven by any ideology but by a base desire to enjoy themselves while inflicting pain on others. If Islam means peace then such people were obviously not acting accordingly.

If you want to know how Muslims feel about terrorism and about being branded as terrorists, go to: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1645580,00.html
And
http://www.y ehhumnaheen.org/english/the_song.html

The email below is oversimplifying and very much one-sided propaganda. It does not explain what has caused this recent resorting to so called Islamic fanaticism. Why is all of a sudden the Western media placing so much emphasis on using the term ‘Islam, ‘Islamist’, ‘Muslim’ very often in the same sentence with words such as terror, terrorist, and fanatics?

If the Muslim women dress differently the media portrays them as backward. We only need to visit Christian Italy, Spain or Greece or remember early immigrant women to Australia from these places wearing their head covering that if worn today by Muslim women is now being touted as the hateful word ‘hijab’. We enjoy our freedom to wear a bikini in public but why do we deny the same freedom of a Muslim woman to wear what she feels comfortable with?

The Christian/Hindu/Marxist Tamil Tigers have carried out more than 200 suicide bombs but we never hear about their religion! Is it because their campaign is not directed against the ‘Christian’ West? When 8,000 Muslim Bosnian men and boys were butchered we never heard about the ‘Christian’ background of the UN Troops who allowed it to happen or that of the ‘Christian’ mass murderers but only that they were Serbs. And this was allowed to happen in Europe, not in Africa!

When Israelis kill Muslims or pursue truly racist policies hardly anyone mentions that they are Jews. When an American or Australian commits mass murder no one mentions his religion but while living in the West if a Muslim is alleged to break the law his religion and cultural background are always mentioned. Why the selective reporting? Criminals are criminals. If we must mention their religion or ethnicity then we must do so for each one of them.

When Muslims are killed, the Western media takes its time in reporting it until after the event, as happened in Bosnia. When Christians and Jews get killed by any Muslims, the same media goes into a frenzy. Is a Christian or Jewish life worth more than that of a Muslim? When local Christians were killing immigrant Muslims on an island in Indonesia no one told us. When the Muslims took up the sword to retaliate suddenly we had multimedia stories on the event. When the Christian militia in East Timor drove out the Muslim Timorese who became refugees in West Timor we never heard about them. In Australia there are support groups about East Timor refugees but none above West Timor refugees. Why the one-sided compassion?

9/11 killed 3000 Americans. We are being told daily never to forget. The Gulf War based on blatant lies has killed more than 500,000 Iraqi ‘Muslims’ and created 2.5 million ‘Muslim’ Iraqi refugees. Who is counting the ‘Muslim’ civilians being killed by the Americans in Afghanistan?

See http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1666 and http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm if you want to find out more.

And yet we expect cooperation and affirmative action from the silent Muslim majority?

The Iran-Iraq war lasted 8 years and killed over a million ‘Muslims’ on both sides of the border. Did you ever hear about it or remember anything about it? You know why? Because Americans and the West hated the Islamic revolution in Iran so much that they actively encouraged and provided military hardware and advice to their beloved despot ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussain to invade and attack Iran. He was fully supported by the Americans throughout that war even though he was gassing the Muslim Kurds as well. And he was considered a friend of the Christian West at that time!

When a fanatic Muslim blows himself up and many other people, we shake our head and can’t fathom such stupidity. When our democratically elected Western governments use their veto to support ‘Jewish’ Israel to continue occupying Palestine and for killing thousands of Muslim Palestinians over more than 40 years, we (the silent majority in the west) keep on voting them back in because a stronger economy means more to us than morality or ethics. And a war brings prosperity to some!

So we the silent majority in the West, let us keep on voting democratically so that our governments keep on telling us lies about their reasons for going to war against the Muslims or for their support of Israel’s racist policies, or of undemocratic and corrupt Arab rulers that have greatly contributed towards creating the current fanatic backlash phenomena.

Here are some of the lines (in italics) from the email that I would like to comment on. The full text of the email is at the end of this article.

The fact is, - that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

Completely false! There are more than one Billion Muslims spread across the world. Don’t judge them by what happens in a handful of undemocratic kingdoms and Emirates planted in the Middle East by the Christian US/British imperialists. 17 out of 19 hijackers of 9/11 were said to be from Saudi Arabia, a monarchy installed and supported by the Christian West for its oil and well known for funding of and spreading its militant brand of Islam in Pakistan and in Indonesia. Saudi authorities have openly admitted and threatened with funding the Sunni insurgency in Iraq to stop the spread of Shia Iranian influence. What action has been taken against Saudi Arabia? The fact is that the old British practice of Divide and Rule is very much in fashion again. Invade Iraq to remove Saddam and let the Shia and Sunni Muslims kill each other. Divide Palestinians into Fatah and Hamas but support one faction. The Muslims will be too busy killing each other. They won’t have time to complain about or attack Israel. Children living and growing up in refugee camps and under constant attack only learn to be angry and desperate and prone to militancy. Why do we expect them to learn how to love those who make their daily life hell?


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.

Wow! Did I say something about Christian propaganda above? 50 shooting wars? Do a bit of search on the web and look up: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/index.html for a list of the 42 current conflicts.

I quote from the above site:
“The United Nations defines "major wars" as military conflicts inflicting 1,000 battlefield deaths per year. In 1965, there were 10 major wars under way. The new millennium began with much of the world consumed in armed conflict or cultivating an uncertain peace. As of mid-2005, there were eight Major Wars under way [down from 15 at the end of 2003], with as many as two dozen "lesser" conflicts ongoing with varying degrees of intensity.”

That still makes a total of only 32 significant conflicts and out of those you can judge none as driven by truly ideological fanatical reasons.

Consider Sudan, the most popular topic with the Western media these days. If any of you know what happened with Biafra in Nigeria you would know what I am talking about (and I was in Nigeria at the time). Did the Sudanese government started this conflict? It was the (Western supported) rebels in the oil rich Darfur region of Sudan that started attacking the established government so that their Western masters, the oil merchants, could move into the vacuum with lucrative contracts.

When you look up the civilian casualty and refugees figure in the above conflicts, who comes on top? Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan. Who has been invading, occupying and waging the war there? Who helped establish Israel and drove millions of Muslim refugees from their homes with no right to return? Compare that with the officially recognized fundamental right of any Jew anywhere in the world to return to Israel no matter where he/she was born! Do you consider it fair and civilised? What else is racism?


It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour kill.

Now I have heard everything. Easy jargon this one! It is of course humane, Christian and civilized (in fact quite OK) to use a ‘precision' missile or 2000 lbs bunker buster that leaves no trace of the children and women, or cluster bombs and mines that keep on killing year after year and will not be considered murder, but it is inhuman to behead someone just because the ‘civilized’ people find it upsetting and unfamiliar. Honour-Kill? The bloody idiots were doing that long before Islam appeared on the scene. That is not fanaticism, that is old tribal custom and nothing to do with Islam. Hindus have been burning widows with their husbands for thousands of years. That too was considered honour-kill and only recently the custom seems to have gone out of fashion.

Let us admit our own laziness. We, the Silent Majority in the West, are comfortable living with secure mortgages, double garage homes, nuclear families and petrol guzzling 4-wheel drives (just to take our children to schools everyday - if you don’t believe me, just visit a local school at the kids drop or pick up time). We are pre-occupied with career, power, money, sex, fashion, sports and politics. Why should we give a damn about what is happening in some backward heathen Muslim countries and what has been causing the current restlessness?

How many of us are being attacked, murdered, invaded, occupied, driven out of our homes for ever, or see our children being shot? How many of us live with passes and permits and daily public humiliation of body searches just to go to work?

And what if we were, what would we do to end the oppression? Would we lie down and get trampled on by the invaders or would some of us with balls join the resistance? Would that action be morally correct irrespective of what bloody religion we believed in?

Personally, as I live in Australia, if Australia was invaded and we had to live under oppression like that, I would be the first one to want to join the resistance! I would gladly be labelled a fanatic by the invaders. But that would have nothing to do with my religion! It would have everything to do with what I consider Right or Wrong! It is not right to invade and occupy another country or people for so long that several generations are born in oppression, suppression and daily cruelty. Nothing good comes out of that.

We can see it happening but we really know nothing!


Below is the original email I received:


Subject: FW: History lesson

something worth considering...

Subject: History lesson
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:21:27 +0800
Whoa ! (this is one to read out aloud )

Subject: Learn from History

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two 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" the "silent majority" is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia 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, 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 War mongering 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 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 .

So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on!!

Let us hope for a better world !

End of quoted email.