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Open Letter From An American Airlines Pilot

CANADIAN AND BRITISH COMMENTS APPEAR AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE AND ARE
MEANINGFUL.



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...

.................................................. ...........

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 SDo 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 will 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 innocentS

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
AmericanS 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!"





Julie Walker of Bedford, N.S. Wrote....

"you worry me too!!"



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!



MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO HAD THE COURAGE TO WRITE THE ABOVE AND MAY GOD
BLESS THOSE

WHO READ AND PASS THIS ON AND MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO WILL HELP STOP THE
INSANITY!





GODS = the Glue of Democratic Societies


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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

....................................





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