JWBehm
07-22-2007, 12:01 PM
Sorry about the formatting, I got this in am email.
> >> 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.
> >> 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.