An airline pilot challenge Arab Muslims in America

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 Sept. 11, 19 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 Sept. 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 and prosper it?

Or do you pray that Allah will 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 toward them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing "leaders" like Gadhafi, 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 Muhammad 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 5 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 Sept. 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. It is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand.

A well written article but he was wrong about one thing... muslims have taken to the streets in America (SF and DC) to protest on behalf of Palestinians, against American military actions (even in Columbia), and defended the practice of muslim homocidal bombers ("they are using the only weapon at their disposal; their lives").

Would be nice to see some public gatherings to support America and denounce militant Islamists.

Some people. Not everybody.

And some people, not everybody, were members of the Nazi Party. And some people not everybody, were members of the Communist Party in the USSR.

Many Muslims claim that extremists make up a small percentage of the Islamic faith. But that small percentage wields greater influence inside of Islam than organizations like the Aryan nation wield inside Christianity or the US.

Organizations like those Timothy McVeigh may have belonged to have no influence or power or real support in the US. Can Islam make the same claims about extremist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, or al-Qaida?

Now maybe it's true that these terrorist extremists have hijacked Islam. I suggest that Islam do something relevant to counteract this hijacking. Its inability or unwillingness to handle the terrorist groups that claim Islam as its faith speaks volumes about Muslim culture.

And because Islam has tacitly refused to police itself, it is up to the non-Islamic world to police Islam. Accountability is everything.

The FBI does run profiles on serial killers. Few serial killers operate for political reasons.

Charles Manson's "family" tried to create high profile mayhem and start a race war but the goal was Charlie running the world. Maybe somewhere in Charlie's mind was a "message" but it wasn't taken up by others to any serious degree.

The Unabomber was politically/ecologically minded and the press actually found merit in his ideas.

The Columbine teens were set on being infamous anti-heroes; they weren't seeking a political goal.

Everyone else from Albert Fish to Richard Spec to John Wayne Gacy to the Night Stalker to Zodiac to Ted Bundy to Jeff Dahmer to Henry Lee Lucas etc etc was sexually frustrated and killed for thrill.

How does a "loyalty oath" apply to people in the profile class for serial killers? They don't seek to overthrow the government. Muslim terrorists DO.

I thought the article concerned arabs living in America, not Palestinians.

Palestinians aren't arabs? What are they?

Wonder if housethattruthbuilt will say that I am changing the subject again...

You've been disrupting since the beginning of this thread. Rather than address the points of the article, you start in with a poor analogy. It gets worse from there.

Here is what google turns up for "John Maniscalco" + American + Airlines.

So? If you did a search for my first name, last name, and the company I work for you wouldn't turn up anything via Google directly relating me to the company I work for either.

Doesn't mean what the author wrote is (a)fake or (b) he doesn't work for American Airlines. But I'd agree with a basic premise statement that said something like "since we can't link this guy directly to American Airlines, the reader(s) may want to take this with a grain of salt.."

If that's what you're trying to say, cool.

I was talking about it as a general principle.

There is no general principle of presumtion of innocence. You are illiterate of the law to think so. For many good reasons, it applies to criminal cases and not to others. If you don't understand this, it is like failing to understand the difference between preponderance of evidence and reasonable doubt, or failing to understand that the U.S. Constitution limits government - it does not limit the rights of people to those enumerated in it. One of the basic aspects of national sovereignty is (at the very least) to be able to declare a non-citizen persona-non-grata and boot them out. Moslems have clearly marked themselves as antagonsist to our system and our nation. The least they can expect is to be removed. What is narrow minded about that?

Ah, but are you sure of that, Grasshopper? It is A2J, and not Doubter, that has to resort to personal attacks. (And since you do not condemn him, you must agree with him!)

Sorta reminds me of a line in "Casablanca" where Peter Lorrie looks at Humphrey Bogart--

"You must despise me, don't you Rick...."

"Despise you? I would..., if I ever thought about you...."

I'd agree with a basic premise statement that said something like "since we can't link this guy directly to American Airlines, the reader(s) may want to take this with a grain of salt.."

Yes, something like that.

As we know from Bad American and Bill Gates's talk at Mt. Whitney High School, stuff gets falsely attributed to real people. The AA Captain *attribution* pinned my bogometer.

We shall see.

cc: George Carlin, Ted Nugent, Bill Gates

Unless you count adherence to existing immigration law narrow minded, it is not narrow minded to ask a certain group of people to prove they are no threat, since potential immgrants are, by U.S. law, presumed NOT to be elligble for visas unless they can prove they are. It is both reasonable and within existing law to ask Moslems to prove their harmlessness.

If you don't get "Why Moslems?" then I think you are beyond help. Likewise, if you think "Why not Lutherans, too?" would make me more open minded, I'd say it would only be stupid, and stupidity is hardly ever open minded.

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