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Bigotted Americans...
> > 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 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 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 a 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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