You Worry Me!

I couldn't help but editing and passing along this message I received from a good friend. A Marine, he flew Phantom jets in Viet Nam and was a pilot for Continental. He is a passionate patriot and I respect and thank him for his service.

A Muslim threat is not the hot topic here in Palm Coast. I don't know if we should care more; maybe we should. But I do think it fair to encourage peace loving, American Muslims to speak out. Read this and see if you agree:

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 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 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!"