Received this email (long read, 911 related)
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Received this email (long read, 911 related)
"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 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, 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!"
- 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 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, 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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Well i can understand his concern, but just cause 1% of the muslim population commits these horrible acts I don't think that muslims should go out and preach how great america is.
I certainly don't go waiving the american flag and yelling bless america in the streets.
If they know of other muslims with cruel intent then of course they should let attorities know before inoccent people are hurt.
But the normal muslim americans that have love for the country should not have to go out and do anything different then their normal lives.
Thats like the ***** marking jewish people.
I certainly don't go waiving the american flag and yelling bless america in the streets.
If they know of other muslims with cruel intent then of course they should let attorities know before inoccent people are hurt.
But the normal muslim americans that have love for the country should not have to go out and do anything different then their normal lives.
Thats like the ***** marking jewish people.
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Everyone has to know this. We will always be the target of ISLAM.Forever !!!!!!We will be fighting these people here and abroad for hundreds of years, UNLESS we take the militants out, they will whittle on us eternally(as they hate us and every free society on earth) Most likely these animals will be killing our grandchildren in the future. If it was up to me(and it isnt) ISLAM would be a ball of fire on the horizon, like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Drastic? Horrific? Yes, but, my grandkids will have a life, a future free from physcopathic azz wipes with no life except the desire to kill and maim the free world. Remember the guy from "Death Wish"? Well, there were millions of us cheering when he shot those worthless criminals in NYC!!! Maybe we need a million more guys like him in every city in the world, "eliminating" the threat to the rest of us. WE NEED THAT GUY!!! Pre-emptive is a wonderfull word.........
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I too can understand the concern, but I'm with Chris here. I don't think they need to go out and go above and beyond to prove their Americanness. There are plenty of Americans out there that don't wave flags or announce their love for their country abundantly.
And for the military issue, I don't see why they should go out of their way to enlist. If they don't want to do it, they don't have to. We're not in a situation that has called for a draft. And while I'm on that note, my muslim "cousin" (Ok, hes not really my cousin but his family and mine have been close friends, essentially family, for generations) enlisted in the marines. He was discharged for medical reasons, but they are an exceptionally patriotic family. They only buy American cars and he and his triplet brother and sister obsess just as much as the next average joe over Mustangs and Corvettes, two highly prized icons of America.
If people want to go out and show their patriotism, thats awesome, more power to them. But it ain't fair to push it on people that don't want to.
Though, just so I'm clear, people who live in America and use all the benefits of this nation while simulataneously pronouncing this country as "the devil" or what have you, can suck it. If they hate it so much, why are they here? Same goes for those who are harboring fugitives. Disgusting folk
And for the military issue, I don't see why they should go out of their way to enlist. If they don't want to do it, they don't have to. We're not in a situation that has called for a draft. And while I'm on that note, my muslim "cousin" (Ok, hes not really my cousin but his family and mine have been close friends, essentially family, for generations) enlisted in the marines. He was discharged for medical reasons, but they are an exceptionally patriotic family. They only buy American cars and he and his triplet brother and sister obsess just as much as the next average joe over Mustangs and Corvettes, two highly prized icons of America.
If people want to go out and show their patriotism, thats awesome, more power to them. But it ain't fair to push it on people that don't want to.
Though, just so I'm clear, people who live in America and use all the benefits of this nation while simulataneously pronouncing this country as "the devil" or what have you, can suck it. If they hate it so much, why are they here? Same goes for those who are harboring fugitives. Disgusting folk
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The point Captain John Maniscalco makes is not about the 1% commiting the horrible acts. It's about the 98.99% who have chosen to remain in silence. His analysis and association to facts are undisputable.
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Yup agree with Chris 100%
The problem is not anyone race or religion the problem is the zealots in those religions. They are the dangerous ones.
I undertand the point the captain is making or trying to make and if that's how he feels that's ok with me.
I don't feel as he does and wont. I"m not going to fear them and they don't owe me anything.
Heck i have more to fear from our own government than from them but that's another issue all together.
I do love the Greatest country in the world attitude he has though (that was sarcasm) shows a real lack of global perspective.
And yes this is all my opinion (and chris's since i agree with him) so shoot me
The problem is not anyone race or religion the problem is the zealots in those religions. They are the dangerous ones.
I undertand the point the captain is making or trying to make and if that's how he feels that's ok with me.
I don't feel as he does and wont. I"m not going to fear them and they don't owe me anything.
Heck i have more to fear from our own government than from them but that's another issue all together.
I do love the Greatest country in the world attitude he has though (that was sarcasm) shows a real lack of global perspective.
And yes this is all my opinion (and chris's since i agree with him) so shoot me
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