Subject: Fwd: One Pilot's Perspective - I like it!


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> I've been trying to say this since 9-11. I guess I
> will be labeled
> as a bigoted American
>        By: American Airlines Pilot - Captain John
> Maniscalc
ME TOO  Retired United Airlines Pilot - Captain Bud
Cochran
>
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>
>       "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
> 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 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." ""
>
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>       LET'S COVER THE COUNTRY WITH THIS ONE!
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