American Airlines Pilots Letter to Muslims (A Must Read!)
Sep 12, 2013 09:44:08 #
Subject: Fwd: AA PILOT LETTER - Read All
>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 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, 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, 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 neighbors 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 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 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!"
>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.
>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 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, 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, 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 neighbors 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 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 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!"
>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.
Sep 12, 2013 09:59:12 #
mikeh0517
Loc: Hampshire,il
Thanks for the great comments on this subject that most of us feel but can't or won't express as well as you have.
Sep 12, 2013 10:04:56 #
Boy, this hits the spot. I am taking a copy and going to post it all over, electronically and on paper around my country. I will also use it as a format to write letters to editors and on comment pages in papers and magazines. Boy, this has hit the spot, showing me how to dodge the cultural cringe that has developed due to the so called racial attitude one must have when making my opinions heard. When nothing of racial degredation is intended.And revved me into some action, here in Australia. THANK YOU.
Sep 12, 2013 10:04:57 #
Sep 12, 2013 10:11:50 #
Jakebrake, this says it all! Most of us try to not let skin color, piercings, clothing, etc. affect the way we treat people but sometimes they worry, even scare us. We do know some of these are true, proud Americans but which ones? We know some are natural born citizens, but which ones? We know some came to our country for freedom from people who treat Americans as they are being treated in our country, some came for more sinister reasons. If they can tell us how we can know who is for freedom and America, many of us would like to know.
Great letter. Thanks for sharing.
Great letter. Thanks for sharing.
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