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She was fantastic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt9bM...
He says the same thing: that basically it is a myth that there even exists a peaceful/moderate majority.
I think we see this playing out in the Republican Presidential Primaries, where the top three are all non-establishment candidates and the top two aren't professional politicians. I would also note that Boehner's ouster and the rejection of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker were largely driven by Tea Party interests.
There are many others who speak out, they just don't get the press coverage of idiot perpetrators of hate like Geller, Gabriel and their ilk.
http://www.everyjoe.com/2015/11/14/po...
or read the converstion between Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaaz in : Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
Sam Harris
Brigitte Gabriel herself is an interesting study in controversy (Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitt.... Here is the text of a speech she delivered at Duke October 15, 2004, from Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbo...
But Ayn Rand asked deeper questions. Gabriel was not focussed on why the "good Germans" or "good Japanese" or "good Russians" went along with the atrocities committed by a violent minority. The fact is that the violent minority only acted out in real life the ideas held by those so-called "good" people. It has been cogently pointed out that the protests against the Bush Administration policies of war, torture, and bailout disappeared when the same policies were carried out by the Obama Administration.
For a contrast that sheds light, consider the cooling of the Tea Party. You would think that they would be front and center with marches all over all the time. The reason that they are not active is that they really lacked any kind of coherent philosophy: they had no basis for their politics. Even in 2009, many felt that Social Security and Medicare were good programs. "In the aftermath of the 2012 American elections, some Tea Party activists have taken up more traditionally populist ideological viewpoints on issues that are distinct from general conservative views. Examples are various Tea Party demonstrators sometimes coming out in favor of U.S. immigration reform as well as for raising the U.S. minimum wage." -- Helling, Dave (May 17, 2014). "Tea party says it is winning the message war despite losing election battles". Kansas City Star. Retrieved May 18, 2014. Quoted in Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Par...
Brigitte Gabriel is right: we cannot defeat an ideology with bombs. Ayn Rand called this "the war for men's minds." It is the only kind that really matters.
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