The following was written by an American Pilot about America but in my view could speak for me as well.
This is the most profound, most insightful message to Muslims I've
seen. I think it should be read on Fox, sent to the President, and forwarded
to any other form of media to express what so many of us feel toward the
Muslims!
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.
This is a Letter From An American Airlines Pilot. This well spoken man,
who is a pilot with American Airlines, says what is in his heart
beautifully....read, absorb and pass on....it's time to get answers from
those who claim their terrorist members do not represent them..why are their
leaders not LOUDLY AND FIERCELY AND CONTINUOUSLY condemning their visible
murderous brethren.
"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 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/Muslims 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 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 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 large 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.
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly
show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore? Do
you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine with dinner, or
celebrate Christmas? Do you and you fellow Muslims hate us because we have
befriended Israel , the ONLY FRIENDLY CIVILIZED SOCIETY in the
Muslim/Arab area, that thinks and acts like most Americans.
And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world
are you even here? Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine
our peace and stability? Are you here to destroy us? If so, I want you to
leave. I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated
like rats and dogs. I want you to take your religion, your friends, and your
family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE! We will NEVER give
in to your influence, your retarded mentality, your twisted, violent,
intolerant religion.
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."
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Originally Posted by Micheal Joseph
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