If you aren't a US citizen, you don't have the rights of a US
citizen!
One Pilot's Perspective
"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 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 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 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 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 0. 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 your 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."