"You Worry Me"
> This pilot hit the nail on the head in his open
> letter. He needs to be awarded a Medal
> for having the TESTICULAR FORTITUDE to say all
> this in a very profound way!
>
> The newspaper stated today that some Muslim doctor
> is saying we are profiling him because he has been
> checked three times while getting on an airplane.
>
> The following is a letter from a pilot. This well
> spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines,
> says what is in his heart, beautifully.... Read,
> absorb and pass this on.
>
> "YOU WORRY ME!"
> By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John
> Maniscalco
>
> I've been trying to say this since 9-11, but you
> worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked
> down the streets of this country that I love, that
> your color and culture still blended with the
> beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.
>
> But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and
> it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it
> anymore. People from your homelands, professing to
> be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my
> fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20
> years now I don't fully understand their grievances
> and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the
> inhumanity of their attacks.
>
> On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked
> four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats
> of women in front of children and brutally stabbed
> to death others. They took control of those planes
> and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of
> proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents,
> elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches,
> fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
>
> The Palestinians Celebrated, the Iraqis were
> overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I
> notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't
> want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and
> prejudice that have destroyed the soul of these
> terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational
> American, trying to protect my country and family in
> an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to
> tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim
> terrorist.
>
> How do I differentiate between the true Arab /
> Muslim-Americans and the Arab Muslim terrorists in
> our communities who are attending our schools,
> enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities
> under the protection of OUR constitution, while
> they plot the next attack that will slaughter these
> same good neighbors and children?
>
> The events of September 11th changed the answer.
> It is not my responsibility to determine which of
> you embraces our great country, with ALL of its
> religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with
> all of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim
> in this country to determine it for me.
>
> I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a
> right to know, whether or not you love America? Do
> you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly
> display it in front of your house, or on your car?
> Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah
> will bless this nation, that He will protect and
> prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah will destroy
> it in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the
> freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom
> that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of
> thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this
> country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by
> also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love
> America?
>
> If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to
> start letting ME know about it.
> Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be
> flooding the media at this time with hard facts on
> your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as
> a community and as a religion to protect the United
> States of America.
>
> Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the
> death of the innocent because I worry about who you
> regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of
> condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I
> worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not
> interested in any more sympathy. I am only
> interested in action.
>
> What will you do for America - our great country -
> at this time of crisis, at this time of war?
>
> I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN
> flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting
> "Allah Bless America " I want to see young
> Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to
> see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the
> victims of this butchering and to this nation as a
> whole.
>
> The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to
> talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these
> people live and socialize right now in Muslim
> communities. You know them. You know where they are.
> Hand them over to us, now! But I have seen little
> even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have
> seen an already closed and
> secretive community close even tighter. You have
> disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed
> security guards at your facilities. You have
> threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for
> protection from reprisals. The very few Arab/Muslim
> representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were
> defensive and equivocating.
>
> They seemed more concerned with making sure that
> the United States proves who was responsible before
> taking action. They seemed more concerned with
> protecting their fellow Muslims from violence
> directed towards them in the United States and
> abroad than they did with supporting our country and
> denouncing "leaders" like
> Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.
>
> If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance
> and peace and love for all people, then I want
> chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from
> popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is
> it if the teachings in the Koran are good, and pure,
> and true, when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical
> interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?
>
> It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge
> numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the
> teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a
> degenerative form of the religion. A form that has
> been demonstrated
> to us over and over again. A form whose structure
> is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and
> suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the
> prisons around the world. A form whose members (some
> as young as five years old) are seen day after day,
> week in and week out, year after a year, marching in
> the streets around the world, burning effigies of
> our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting
> weapons into the air. A form whose members convert
> from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms
> against the great United States of America, the
> country of their birth. A form whose rules are so
> twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show
> their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the
> name of Islam.
>
> We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11,
> or any others for that matter, to take away that
> which is so precious to us: Our rights under the
> greatest constitution in the world.
>
> I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this
> country stands and I think it is my right and the
> right of every true citizen of this country to
> demand it. A right paid for by the blood of
> thousands of my brothers and sisters who died
> protecting the very constitution that is protecting
> you and your family. I am pleading with you to let
> me know.
>
> I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my
> friend, as a fellow American.
>
> But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence
> regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to
> show ME, where YOU stand. Until then. "YOU WORRY
> ME!
2007-07-22
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