|
Open Letter From An
American Airlines Pilot
NOTE: CANADIAN COMMENT APPEARS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE AND IS
MEANINGFUL. THERE IS ALSO SOME RECENTLY ADDED BRITISH COMMENT.
This pilot hit the
nail right on the head in his open letter.
The paper stated 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...
|
If you truly
believe in fair & reasonable objectivity - Read,
absorb and pass this on.
...............................................................
YOU WORRY ME!
By Captain John Maniscalco, American
Airlines Pilot
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, 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, 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 MORE of the same good neighbors and
children?
The events of September 11 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 it and let it prosper?
Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your
Jihads? Are you thankful for the freedom that 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 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 interested only 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, 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 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.
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!"
CANADIAN COMMENTS:
I totally agree with this sentiment. I hope you will
forget all about the 'political correctness' mandate
we've had rammed down our throats, and see if this
doesn't ring true in your heart and mind. For Canada ,
with all the multiculturalism we've been told is so important.....why
should we not, as Canadians, expect that the millions of
new people immigrating to our country will show their
love for our country, their allegiance to our country,
their willingness to obey the laws of our country, and
acceptance that we are a Christian country? Just
because they are able to enjoy exercising their own
religion, they should NOT expect us to be ashamed of
ours. They knew Canada was a Christian country when they
came here. Why are we erasing Christianity because immigrants
who are unwilling to adopt our way of life expect us to?
There is just too much insanity in the world, and we have
to start taking a stand.
I hope you will forward this, so that others will feel
they are not alone if they are starting to feel the same.
BRITISH COMMENTS:
At last a clear non racist example of
the concerns that the vast majority of our Nations
population probably share. The pilot's letter
encapsulates all that is fair and just about national
pride and protection of one's national culture. I fear it
may be too late here in UK , BUT we too want our country
back in the form that attracted all these different
cultures to come here in the first place!! In all our
conversations with a wide range of friends and
acquaintances we have not
met one that
disagrees with our own views. If only we all had the
courage of our convictions to pass this on, it is a
statement that should be accepted as the heart-felt
feelings of someone with honest commendable national
pride.
THIS IS TOO GOOD TO JUST READ AND DELETE
-- LET'S SATURATE NEW ZEALAND , AUSTRALIA , UK , EUROPE,
USA , CANADA AND THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD WITH THIS
ONE!
|
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment