Post by Fran Gyomory on Jul 23, 2007 15:21:33 GMT -5
All American should be demanding this.
>
>
> 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 lanes
> 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!"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 lanes
> 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!"
>
>
>
>
>
>
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