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Jewish World Review March 8, 2004 / 15 Adar, 5764 Are lunatics running the Arab asylum? By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen Actual lynching Ramallah, March 14, 2002 They're morally bankrupt as ever http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Let's assume for the sake of argument that most Arab leaders are correct in their assertion that the seemingly never-ending string of horrific mass murders the world has suffered for the past several years at the hands of Islamic terrorists, are the work of a relatively small band of crazy fanatics who have hijacked the otherwise peaceful religion of Islam. When was the last time in the history of civilization that the lunatics were in control of the asylum in so broad and terrifying a way? I recall reading about some relatively minor, localized incidents like the Salem Witch Trials, and several others. But I think maybe there have been only two times in history during which the forces of darkness had, temporarily, overpowered the light on a massive scale — the appropriately named "Dark Ages," and the Third Reich, otherwise known as the Nazi Holocaust. In the first instance, a group of religious fanatics was permitted to overrun most of the known world, and plunge human kind into a darkness of culture and spirit that took a whole rebirth, or Renaissance, to pull it out of. Then, like now, there were forced conversions and mass murders, mostly of Jews. While the black cloud known as the Third Reich that descended upon the world in the 1930s, was not a traditional religious movement, it bore all the earmarks of a cult, and employed many of the same tactics, of forced "conversion" and mass murder, mostly, once again, of Jews, to expand in numbers of adherents, influence and territory controlled. Most of the world's population were not actual "believers" in either of these cases, but the lunatics nevertheless succeeded in taking over the asylum, primarily because most people are unwilling or unable to "read the writing on the wall" — a Biblical reference describing this type of selective blindness — until it's too late to do much of anything but comply and hope for the best. That's as long as you don't happen to be the lunatics' declared target, that is. If you are a member of the targeted group, as the Jews coincidentally or otherwise, nearly always seem to be, you also have choices, but they're different ones, all of them are hard, and none of them offer much hope for personal survival. You can try and be what they say they want you to be, and some people throughout history have taken that approach in an attempt to save themselves and their families. What usually happens to that type, is they are reviled by both their tormentors and their own people for what they're forced to do to stay alive, and they end up victims anyway because, in the end, what they want you to be, is dead. Another possible choice is to flee, and some people have survived that way, mostly because others have chosen to fight, and succeeded in turning back the darkness before it completely enveloped the world. I believe the world has collectively failed to see some important writing on the wall for probably 30 years now as far as Islamic terrorists are concerned, and that 9/11 was, in effect, a 100-plus-story message written in indelible black smoke on a clear, blue canvass. It was written in letters big enough for even me to see, and I got the message, but not everyone did. The lunatics have overtaken several wings of the asylum already, and are going for the rest. We need to find a way to stop them before it's too late. I love life, and I have children I cherish and desperately hope will have long, happy lives. But in my opinion, a world in which terror reigns — in which people are targeted for death and horror because of their faith and the population lives in fear of a group of lunatics who have taken over the asylum — is not a world worth living in. The world needs to recognize the danger it's in, Jews and Gentiles alike, and band together to dissipate this cloud of locusts before it consumes all that is good in the world. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in Washington and the media consider "must-reading." Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment on JWR contributor Rachel Raskin-Zrihen's column by clicking here. 04/21/03 Big Lies at Passover 04/01/03 How the Arabs outsmarted the West — and have no reason to stop © 2004, Rachel Raskin-Zrihen