The paper stated
today that some Muslim doctor is saying we are profiling
him because he has been checked three times while getting on
an airplane. Here's a proposed response: (A Letter From An
American Airlines Pilot)
This well spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines,
says what is in his heart beautifully ..read, absorb and
pass on....it's time to get answers from those who claim
their terrorist members do not represent them...why are
their leaders not LOUDLY AND FIERCELY AND CONTINUOUSLY
condemning their visible murderous brethren.
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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 (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? Do
you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine
with dinner, or celebrate Christmas? Do you and your fellow
Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel , the ONLY
FRIENDLY CIVILIZED SOCIETY in the Muslim/Arab area, that
thinks and acts like most Americans.
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"