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flintteach
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You Worry Me
By: American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco
"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 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 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 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 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 civilized democratic 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.
In my eyes, everyone should be worried. Not just I nor the airline pilot who penned this piece. My oldest son nows wants to work for Homeland security/FBI to protect his country and his future family from these radicals. In his short 18 years on this planet.. he has seen his father go off to war, he has witnessed 9/11, he has watched on TV boys his age dying for their country while others protest with the same liberties these young men are dying for. He has been to a military funeral and seen fanatics disgrace a young hero. On the flip side, he has learned to love his country and freedoms more than ever now. He has now realized what it means to be a true American. |
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Just a Jarhead.. OOORAH ! I dig country music.. I love this country and her flag ! But my family comes first ! |
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Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:45 am |
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rapunzel
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Twisted sense of logic but this same type of pen has been used before just ask... Americans of Japanese heritage after Pearl Harbor. American Indians after Custer's last stand. I could go on but you get my drift.
Why did the pilgrims come to America?
Freedom of Religion.
You worry me. |
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Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:31 pm |
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flintteach
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Twisted why? Because YOU say so ! The Natives were spat upon as soon as the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria reached "North America".
The gist of this penned work was about Muslims. Not ethnicity. Which were your examples. And what does the Pilgrims have to do with being a Muslim in this country? The Pilgrims were English Separatists who founded Plymouth Colony in New England. In the first years of the 17th century, small numbers of English Puritans broke away from the Church of England because they felt that it had not completed the work of the Reformation. They committed themselves to a life based on the Bible. Most of these Separatists were farmers, poorly educated and without social or political standing. The Muslims in this country were not ostracized nor persecuted in their native land (unlike the Pilgrims). They came here not to escape hardships, or the like. They came here to prosper and become professionals. Such the case, that's why it's worrisome because very few have come forward to explain their position. Instead, they offer excuses ! |
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Just a Jarhead.. OOORAH ! I dig country music.. I love this country and her flag ! But my family comes first ! |
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Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:41 pm |
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rapunzel
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Religious freedom. The Irish ???
Tell the truth you are a racist pig. End of story.
Sure you will say You are married to sheryl crow and help the poor urban children to enlist in the bush war. Go fight young man, you want to guide our young, go with them. |
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Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:01 am |
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Ted Jankowski
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quote:
The Pilgrims were English Separatists who founded Plymouth Colony in New England. In the first years of the 17th century, small numbers of English Puritans broke away from the Church of England because they felt that it had not completed the work of the Reformation. They committed themselves to a life based on the Bible. Most of these Separatists were farmers, poorly educated and without social or political standing.
Revisionist history?
When did the Pilgrims become SEPARATISTS? This is a new one on me. I did find some websites that said that. They came/fled to the new world to escape persecution from the Church of England and religious freedom. This really caught me off guard. I guess I don't read many modern history books. Seems to me to be an effort to demonize those that came to this country for freedom.
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The Natives were spat upon as soon as the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria reached "North America".
If it hadn't been for te natives many more of the early pilgrims would have died. i don't see how that was them spitting on the natives? They did later have a falling out with the natives and war was declared. But was that really those "SEPARATISTS" or were they the "strangers"?
I've read a lot of the old stuff on the early settlers since I can trace some of my family back to Jesse Deforest (New York 1637 )and John Benjamin (Watertown, Middlesex Co. MA 1645) I had never read anything people today were writing. I have always been reading the stuff they wrote and biographies of them. I’ve even been able to trace one line back to American Indianans in Virginia (1770’s).
I guess you could call them SEPARATISTS but without the negative connotation that this revised history is attempting to attribute to them. But, if you consider that they wanted to live their lives by the Bible I guess they weren’t such bad people at all. |
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Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:34 am |
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flintteach
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First of all Ted, Columbus was Italian, not English. The Spainards and the Italians sailed and explored waaaaaaaaay before the English. Before them.. the Nords.
I never stated that the English were the ones who spat upon the Natives. I was making reference to what's-her-name rants about ethnicity. Being Native and black I think I know a few things about ethnicity and what it entails !
And the "Pilgrims" were Separatists. They broke away from the Church of England. My youngest is learning this right now in his social studies class.
Racist pig ? LMAO. Only race I hate is the one I lose ! Especially to the fridge for the last PO' CHOP !!  |
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Just a Jarhead.. OOORAH ! I dig country music.. I love this country and her flag ! But my family comes first ! |
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Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:14 pm |
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flintteach
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quote:
rapunzel schreef:
Religious freedom. The Irish ???
Tell the truth you are a racist pig. End of story.
Sure you will say You are married to sheryl crow and help the poor urban children to enlist in the bush war. Go fight young man, you want to guide our young, go with them.
Hmm... now who is being stereotypical and racist? |
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Just a Jarhead.. OOORAH ! I dig country music.. I love this country and her flag ! But my family comes first ! |
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Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:15 pm |
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Ted Jankowski
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My problem lies with the connotation of "Separatists" did they teach us that in history class?
Case in point. RUBY RIDGE - Randy Weaver.
He was Labeled a White Separatist. Well he was white, And he did believe the government was corrupt and wanted to get away from government influence on his life thereby moving out in the middle of no where to Get away from the government. Ie Separatist.
The inference was he was a racist. Which there was no evidence of. By adding the Label of "Separatist" the attempt was to demonize him. To undermine him before he could defend himself.
It just appears to me to be another attempt to undermine the history of the US. |
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