MeD-- the US general popultion still has too many bleeding hearts to get down to serious business. The govt (except Bush) is not committed enough and there are too many holes in our laws. This sums up the feelings of too few..
An American Airlines Pilot Speaks -- "You Worry Me"
"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.
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 those
very 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 it's
religions, with ALL of it's different citizens, with all of it's 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 it's 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. And 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 World Trade Center 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 prove 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
defended
Johnny Cochran and O. J. Simpson, after the latter butchered his wife
and
murdered an innocent friend.
A form of religion, whose members (some as young a 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 of religion, 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 Mulsims 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 civilized nation in the entire
middle-east?
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." |
