This pilot
hit the nail on the head in his open
> letter. He needs to be awarded a
> Medal for having the TESTICULAR FORTITUDE to say
> all this in a very profound way! 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.
>
> 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 911, 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/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
> 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
> also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love
>
> 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
> 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
> 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
> 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
> responsible before taking action. They seemed more
> concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from
> violence directed towards them in the
> 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 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
> of
> 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 way 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!"
>
> THIS IS TOO GOOD TO JUST READ AND DELETE.... LET'S
> SATURATE THE
> ONE!