Why Peaceable Muslims Are Irrelevant!

The Guest Post below is by Paul Marek. He has some amazing insights about the dangers of the oft-repeated, but nonetheless, irrelevant truth: "The Majority of Muslims are peaceable". He had these insights seven (7) years ago ...long before "A

The Peaceful Majority

by: Paul E. Marek

I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War Two. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.

“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 unquantified 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

Communist Russia was 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 was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The Average Japanese individual prior to World War II 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 killing 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

fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. 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. The hard quantifiable fact is, that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority” and it is cowed and extraneous.
most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. 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, Bosnians, 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 primarily to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life. 


Paul E. Marek is a second-generation Canadian, whose grandparents fled Czechoslovakia just prior to the Nazi takeover. He is an educational consultant specializing in programs that protect children from predatory adults. You can discover more of Paul's writing here, including the original post.

"Christian: Pray for and Reach Out to Muslims!"

Home-grown, radical Islamic terrorism will probably escalate given the success of the Boston Marathon bombings and the close call and recent arrests of an extremist Muslim Toronto resident and another in the U.S. because of their planned derailment of a Canadian passenger train near Toronto.

You also probably heard about the Canadian Muslim who took part in the large terrorist attack and subsequent murders of workers and others recently at the oil refinery in Algeria.

The temptation resulting from this horrible violence and the fear it causes is to build barriers, not bridges, in Canada and the U.S. to our Muslim neighbours.

However, may I remind you of Jesus’ choice of disciples, and the bridges that He chose to build with them to the local culture groups in ancient Israel when He was first here.

One of Jesus' Ambassadors, Matthew, came into His inner circle as a collaborationist tax-collector. Matthew abetted and aided the occupying Romans in oppressing the Jewish nation before he chose to follow King Jesus. Most Jews felt about Matthew much like the Dutch did during WW II about their fellow citizens who collaborated with and helped the Germans.

On the other hand, Simon the Zealot, another of Jesus' 12 key Ambassadors, was the ancient Jewish equivalent of the Tsarnaev brothers when Jesus walked around Israel. The Zealots were masters of ferocious and violent terrorism against the Roman authorities and soldiers occupying Israel.

It would have been interesting to sit in on conversations with Jesus and those two ...Matthew and Simon. We would have heard Him share in his own voice His peace-making, non-violent "Third Way" that we can still read about in Matthew 5:38-48.

Despite who Matthew and Simon were and the terrible things they had done before meeting Jesus, personally, He chose them, made them His friends, and partners with each other. That same invitation is available still today to everyone who will choose to believe in, follow, and obey Jesus, "God, The One and Only King".

Jesus also made the nobodies, Matthew and Simon, His Apostles. 'Apostle' is really better translated ...rather than being transliterated... as 'Ambassador'. And Jesus sent "His 12 Ambassadors to the whole world of non-Jews and told them to tell their Disciples (Learners) down through the ages to us to do exactly the same thing.

In view of Jesus command to His Followers in all ages, one of the saddest statements to come out of the Tsarnaev brothers’ story was this entry by Tamerlan, the eldest, on one of his web sites:

"I have no American friends – I don’t understand them."

Do you, like me, wonder if Jesus holds Tamerlan responsible for the non-action of Christians who may not have reached out, in love, to the Tsarnaevs who were ordinary "Street Muslims", to use a term common in the media, before the demoniacal violence took place?

Or will Jesus be asking so-called Jesus-Following neighbours of the Tsarnaevs about what they did to share His non-violent Gospel of grace to the Brothers and their family ...before it was too late?

For unconditional love is Jesus' ONLY prescription for what is needed to hopefully counter and overcome radical Islamist hate and violence against non-Muslims ...especially Christians and Jews.

Despite what Islamic apologists argue, Muslims are taught these attitudes by their Holy Book, the Qur'an. (In it, regrettably, they find many hateful, violent commands like those in verses 4:76, 5:33, 5:51, and 9:5!) 

Please pray for and reach out to your Muslim neighbours, without fear as Jesus commands in Matthew 28:18-20. Please also pray for both the persecuted and their persecutors in the genocide being implemented against Christians by radical Islamists, plus ordinary Street Muslims, throughout the Muslim-majority world and especially, right now, in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.