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
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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very good but,these ppl are spineless.hide,or miss lead.show patriotism
by day and destruction by night.i still could not drum up trust.not till
i see them in the military,not till i see them offer possable ultiment
sacrifice.very good tho izz!

Amen

In the meantime, we all have to continue to pray for peace. Peace for
our nations, the world and each individual that walks this beautiful
earth. Peace starts within.

Very good. I am waiting to see if anyone from any of those religions
posts a response here. Some of the statement was pretty
harsh......yet.......as a proud American....UNDERSTOOD!
Trust will be a tough thing for them to earn again in this country and
that is a shame.

Not an American but can still understand the sentiment. I learned that
at a contract I worked long after 9/11 some of the muslim youth cheered.
I didn't really feel like doing my job and protecting them. The only
reason I could do my job was the knowledge that those who had cheered
were no longer there.

Let them prove that they deserve the liberties and freedoms accorded
them by western nations.

powerful message and i agree completely.but in my opinion muslims should
all go back home. here in canada and the us too.i personally cannot
believe that a religion started by a warmonger (mohammed) can believe in
peace. the koran states that if the refuse islam/allah they must be put
too the sword