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.

Good point. However, if an airline pilot had written this, I'd expect to find furious denunciations by CAIR and other Islamic groups, and demands for his firing.

FWIW, the item has been buzzing around since March or earlier. According to this page, it was a speech "delivered at the annual Kahane Memorial Dinner, January 29, 2002."

Hey, I love Canadians (in fact, there was this girl from Toronto...oh, nevermind). I think that marcleblanc is way off base. I was simply trying to see if I could get a rise out of him.

I have had potain before, but I wasn't impressed. Of course, I didn't have it with a Pepsi (in a bottle) or a pack of Luckies. I will have to try it that way next time I am in the "Great White North".

And, I love a Labatt's, for sure. But, I DO have trouble raising a Labatt to some American-hating, French-Canadian.

a ridiculous tirade by what appears to be a very frightened man. Given his job this is understandable.

The 911 attack was targeted precisely at our ability to trust one another. If he is "a very frightened man", and that is "understandable," then his job is what is "ridiculous."
Those who acted against America did so in the name of a certain commonality. The idea that the burden of the attack falls only on the writer, and not at all on those who have that discernable commonality in question, is itself ridiculous. I didn't say it wasn't a shame; it is. But the shame is on the attacker, and you are blaming one of the victims.

Looks like the moderator(s) are little touchy this morning...

Pray tell why was my post (#19) was removed.

I didn't use any profanity, there was no racism, or violence insinuated (unless you consider telling someone to listen to Celine Dione...hmmm, maybe you have a point there).

The French hate America. This is fact. French-Canadians are even worse. This is also fact. And, I believe that I have seen the word FROG on more than enough posts around here.

I was commenting on the stupidity of the marcleblanc's post. It is not my fault that he hates America and agrees that we should stand idly by while Muslim fanatics prepare to slaughter Americans.

If you agree with this, then I think JimRob needs to take a look at his moderators.

Please provide an explanation in this post or via FREEPmail.

Thanks.

The French hate America. This is fact. French-Canadians are even worse.

I think you are wrong about the French-Canadians. I would admit that my experience up there is not recent, but I was there when the Parti Quebecois first came to power, and I worked at several of their events. Whenever things were done entirely in French, numerous people came over to me to make sure I knew what was going on even though I had no real need to know. Ditto with people on the street or in bars where a song sung in English was met with hoots and cat calls.

My feeling was that all these people could tell that I was an American, rather than an English speaking Canadian, from the way I spoke. They seemed to know that if they ever cut their ties with Ottawa, they would have to depend much more upon us and it wouldn't be good for them politically to be at odds with the US.

There is a BIG difference between French and French-Canadiens.

ML/NJ

For the record, Google is not the end-all, although I use their search engine, myself. That said, skeptics listen up...in this case, Google did not search far enough.

And while I'm here, I just would like to know why it seems that everything posted at FR lately, has to be so disected? IMO it's getting to be ridiculous! For crying out loud, I would just like to hang out among Patriots who have a little sense about them. Who *really* cares whether the author of this article is a commercial pilot or not? Aren't there world events a little more serious to be concerned with? The intent of the posting member, I'm sure, was to share with us the content of an article, not to dispatch an investigation into the legitimacy of the author's employment.

And so, in my opinion, I thank JohnHuang2 for sharing his find with us. And now, here's my opinion on the content of the article... I totally agree with Capt. M... Our world is several degrees off from where it was a year ago. I don't like traitors among us, no matter whom they might look like. And if their facial features and skin color happens to match anyone on the poster of the flying terrorists, I'm sorry, right now, I'd feel much better using the guilty until proven innocent philosophy.

Well, let me restate. My comment about French-Canadians is anecdotal, but so is your story. I think that we would agree, then, that the evidence is clear that the French hate America (or more accurately are envious of America).

I can tell you that marcleblanc, from his comments, appears to dislike Americans.

The article that was written drove home a VERY valid point about Muslim-Americans and fanatic Muslims, the safety of Americans, and the deafening silence from the Muslim American community. The point of the article wasn't subtle and I would have expected even a idiot (note to moderators, I mean this scientifically, as in an IQ under 40) to understand what was being said. But, instead, marcleblanc's unbelievably intelligent reply was "Stupid post...".

So, from what I can gather, marcleblanc thinks that a post about the safety of Americans is "Stupid". Mind you, he offered no additionally commentary, no facts supporting why it was "stupid". Then, Doubter posted a commentary about serial killers (post #13) that only surpassed marcleblanc's stupidity. His attempt to equate white serial killers and white men with fanatic Muslims to Muslim-Americans was childish, at best, and, at worst, purposefully racist (note to moderators, I guess his post wasn't racist, right?).

I have had good experiences and bad experiences with French-Canadians, but I can't honestly say that the French-Canadian community is supporting our efforts.

Bad analogy. The rest of us white males are digusted with the tiny infinitesmal minority of serail killer white males. The silence from the American Muslim community on this attack on our country has been DEAFENING.

This AA Captain would have had nothing to say if the Muslim community had been forthcoming and stood with the rest of us.

That said, skeptics listen up...in this case, Google did not search far enough.

Fine. What did YOUR researches turn up?

Who *really* cares whether the author of this article is a commercial pilot or not?

Okey dokey. I'll start signing everything "Captain Dighton," or "Dighton, MD", or "Dighton, USMC." Then if anyone calls my bluff, I'll ask -- with a look of injured innocence -- what difference does it make?

And while I'm here, I just would like to know why it seems that everything posted at FR lately, has to be so disected?

You haven't even been posting for a month, and you're going to complain about how it's been "lately?" It's always been this way. We're not sheeple who accept whatever someone claiming to be an authority deigns to ladle out to us.

IMO it's getting to be ridiculous! For crying out loud, I would just like to hang out among Patriots who have a little sense about them.

Part of that sense would be the ability to discern between s**t and Shinola.

Who *really* cares whether the author of this article is a commercial pilot or not?

If he isn't, he's being dishonest. And that is, I'm sure, a trait that we can agree should not be rewarded by the honorable. You sound like the liberals when one of their "journalists" gets caught making things up.

A racist and paranoid tirade. I expected better of you, JohnHuang2. Simply substitute "black", "Jap", or other ethnic group you happen to hate for "Arab" in this trash, and you've got instant John Birch Society recruiting material here.

As for those who retort that you don't feel that enough Arab-Americans have apologized for 9/11, exactly how many apologies will it take before you stop trashing Arabs as a race and Islam as a religion? We need a hard number here, please.

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