A PILOT'S EDITORIAL
"YOU WORRY ME"
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I've been trying to say this since
9-11.
I guess I will be labeled as a bigoted
American
By: American Airlines Pilot -
Captain John Maniscalco
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"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.
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 has 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-Muslims 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
those very 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 it's religions,
with ALL of it's different citizens,
with all of it's 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 it's
flag?
Do you proudly display 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 with 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 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.
And 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 awhole.
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
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 prove
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 large 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 defended Johnny
Cochran and O. J. Simpson
after the latter butchered his wife
and murdered an innocent friend.
A form whose members
(some as young as five years old)
are seen day after day, week in
and week out, year after 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.
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate
us
because our women proudly show their
faces in public
rather than cover up like a shameful
whore?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate
us
because we drink wine with dinner,
or celebrate Christmas?
Do you and you fellow Muslims hate
us
because we have befriended Israel,
the ONLY civilized democratic nation
in the entire middle-east?
And if you and your fellow Muslims
hate us,
then why in the world are you even
here?
Are you here to take our money?
Are you here to undermine our peace
and stability?
Are you here to destroy us?
If so, I want you to leave.
I want you to go back to your desert
sandpit
where women are treated like rats
and dogs.
I want you to take your religion,
your friends and your family back
to your Islamic extremists,
and STAY THERE!
We will NEVER give in to your influence,
your retarded mentality, your twisted,
violent, intolerant religion.
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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LET'S COVER THE COUNTRY WITH THIS
ONE!
'A PILOT'S EDITORIAL'
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~ Made with Love ~
