OT: A good read
good ol' Bob
This pilot hit the nail on the head in his open letter. He needs to
be awarded a medal for having the 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 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 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
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 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 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!"
Bob T.
> Food for thought? Rabble rousing?
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> 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.
No, we will allow our own leaders to take away these rights by playing
on our fears of terrorism. "Warrant? I don't need no steenking
warrant!"
- Bob T.
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Bob T.
> Hey Bob T...great meeting you. Cya next year.
>
It was nice to meet you, too. See you at BARGE 2008!
- Bob T.