A very interesting text by Martin Niemöller, and also an interesting reflection from my friend Louis:

“You see, after this question concerning non-Muslim French people who cannot understand Islam, one observation becomes clear: At the beginning of the last century, we separated religion, then Christian, from the state, and until now, nothing could take precedence over the law.

Among Muslims, the discourse is quite different: nothing can take precedence over God, and the law comes second. That says it all. Thus, these believers cannot integrate, or else we are the ones who integrate into them…”

I completely agree with my friend's remarks, and I add this very explicit text, which allows me to tell everyone that the rot has set in and that it is high time to react before it becomes inedible… “The silence of slippers is more dangerous than the sound of boots,” a text by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a Protestant pastor arrested in 1937 and sent to the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Transferred to Dachau in 1941. He was liberated in 1945 with the fall of the Third Reich and said:

“Few people are true Nazis,” he said, “but many rejoice at the return of German pride, and even more are too busy to pay attention. I was one of those who simply thought the Nazis were a bunch of lunatics. So, most people just watched and let it happen.
Suddenly, before we knew it, they had us, we had lost all freedom of action, and the end of the world had arrived.” My family lost everything, I ended up in a concentration camp, and the Allies destroyed my factories.”

Communist Russia was made up of Russians who simply wanted to live in peace, although Russian communists were responsible for the murder of approximately twenty million people. The peaceful majority was unaffected.

The vast Chinese population was also peaceful, yet the Chinese communists managed to kill the staggering number of seventy million people.

The average Japanese person before World War II was not a sadistic warmonger. Japan, however, marked its path through Southeast Asia with murder and carnage in an orgy of killing that included the systematic slaughter of twelve million Chinese civilians, most of them killed with swords, shovels, or bayonets.

And who can forget Rwanda, which descended into a bloodbath? Couldn’t it have been said that the majority of Rwandans were for Peace and Love? History is often incredibly simple and brutal; however, despite all our reasoning abilities, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated things.

Peaceful Muslims have become inconsistent through their silence. Today, experts and self-proclaimed intellectuals constantly tell us that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims desire nothing more than to live in peace. While this gratuitous assertion may be true, it is completely unfounded.

It is a meaningless empty promise, intended to comfort us and, in a way, diminish the specter of fanaticism that is sweeping the earth in the name of Islam. The fact is that fanatics currently rule Islam.
It is the fanatics who parade. It is the fanatics who finance each of the fifty armed conflicts around the world. It is the fanatics who systematically murder Christians or tribal groups throughout Africa and gradually seize control of The entire continent, swept away by an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who plant bombs, behead, massacre, or commit honor killings. It is the fanatics who seize control of mosques, one after another. It is the fanatics who zealously preach the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.

The brutal and quantifiable reality is that the peaceful majority, the silent majority, is unaware of this and remains hidden. Peaceful Muslims will become our enemies if they do not react, because, like my German friend, they will one day awaken to find themselves prey to the fanatics and that the end of their world has begun.

Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Albanians, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Nigerians, Algerians—all lovers of peace, and many other peoples—have died because the peaceful majority didn't react until it was too late.

As for us, observing all this, we must focus on the only group that matters to our way of life: the fanatics.

Finally, at the risk of shocking those who doubt the seriousness of the subject and of those who simply destroy this message, without forwarding it, should know that they will be contributing to the passivity that will allow the problem to spread.

So, relax a little and spread this message widely. Let's hope that thousands of people around the world will read it, reflect on it, and forward it…

“When they came for the communists, I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
When they came for the Jews, I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Catholics, I did not speak out because I was not a Catholic.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.”

As Michel Azemar also writes, one cannot help but recall this quote from one of our most enlightened contemporaries, also of German origin: ‘The world is a dangerous place to live not so much because of those who do evil, but because of those who watch and do nothing.’ Albert Einstein.” It is indeed true that, given the current situation, all we talk about is the price of gasoline… (Babouche?).