Pilot Speaks Out
AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT SPEAKS HIS
MIND
No name calling, no hatred, no political
agenda.
CANADIAN COMMENT APPEARS AT
THE END OF THE ARTICLE AND IS MEANINGFUL.
THERE IS ALSO SOME RECENTLY ADDED
BRITISH COMMENT.
A newspaper 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 colour 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, favourite
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 neighbours 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
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 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 neighbour, my friend, as a fellow American.....
But there can be no grey 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. Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists to date have
been Muslims. Stand up and be counted!
Australian Comment: Best
email I have had in years it needs to be in every paper every day until we get
some answers.
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!