Memo: The Gretchen-Frage, or Where Do You Stand? from Sgt Stryker Hat tip to In Operable Tehran

This is such a great post I'm putting it up in it's entireity. This sentence sums up what I have been ranting about for some time:

There is no shelter in silence, people--- those who do not speak against, are in danger of being assumed to agree with the perpetrators of the next jihadist atrocity.

Here is the whole taco

From: Sgt. Mom
To: Members of the American Moslem Community
Re: Choosing Between Loyalties

1. Let me make myself perfectly clear--- I do not intend to impugn the patriotism or the loyalty of those citizens of this country who happen to be of the Moslem faith, or to encourage the assumption that origination in certain foreign countries equates to an enemy alien.

2. However, it has become abundantly clear over the previous 20 years that elements of that faith do not view America and all its’ works and all its’ ways with anything like favor. The mass-murder of 3,000 people in the streets of our own cities in a single day have made that manifest and unmistakable to all but the most deluded.

3. It is also unmistakable that those who continue to plot the continued mass-murder of the citizenry of this country and others camouflage their intentions by hiding within the community of co-religionists. It is also clear that these jihadists are funded and encouraged by substantial elements, are offered shelter when needed, justification after the fact for atrocities of every sort--- and at the very least are enabled by the larger Moslem community, out of malice, solidarity or simply indifference.

4. This continues at the peril of the entire community. When the next mass atrocity occurs, and is laid at the door of Islamic fundamentalists, it will be at the door of every Moslem, much as Pearl Harbor was laid at the door of every Japanese American, whether they sympathized with the aims of the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere or not. Those who held silent, out of community solidarity, were interned along with those who had cheered as the bombs fell. Such mass internment was not the fate of the Italian-American, or the German-American communities, although certain elements of both were quite demonstrative in their support of Mussolini and Hitler prior to 1941. Enough members of both communities, long-time residents and recent émigrés alike spoke out in condemnation, spoke loudly, repeatedly and unmistakably, making their detestation of America’s enemies clear to their fellow Americans, and their loyalties beyond any doubt.

5. These are once again extraordinary times, times when choices must be made, and made clearly. The peril is in remaining undecided, and keeping silent about where you stand, and with whom. There is no shelter in silence, people--- those who do not speak against, are in danger of being assumed to agree with the perpetrators of the next jihadist atrocity.

Sincerely
Sgt. Mom