Winds of War: The Good German and the Good Muslim

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

(Edmund Burke)

I’ve been thinking about that quote from Edmund and thought about the phrase “The Good German.”

Wikipedia defines “The Good German” as those Germans who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, yet made no claim to have opposed it in any significant way.

It is a saying among our troops that there are no real Nazis in Germany, only “good Germans.” Every crime Germany committed against humanity seems to have been done by someone else.

The term has come to be used to refer more generically to people in any country who observe reprehensible things taking place — whether done by a government or by another powerful institution — but remain silent, neither raising objections nor taking steps to change the course of events.

Sound a lot like the moderate Muslims – or the ‘Good Muslims’ – of today.

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.