AMERICAN AIRLINE 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.
This pilot hit the nail right on the head in his open letter.
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 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 Khadafy, 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.
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 – PASS IT ON . . .
LET'S SATURATE NEW ZEALAND , AUSTRALIA , UK , EUROPE, USA , and CANADA , AND
THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD WITH THIS ONE!
There is nothing worse than to contribute to the demise of a country and its
citizens than to do nothing to stop it! It’s happening, folks!
