Received in an email.



The paper stated today that some Muslim doctor is saying we are
profiling him because he has been checked three times while getting
on an airplane.

The following is a letter from a pilot. This well spoken man, who
is a pilot with American Airlines, says what is in his heart,
beautifully.... Read, absorb and pass this on.

"YOU WORRY ME!"

By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco

I've been trying t o say this since 9-11, 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. Inotice 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.

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 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/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 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 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 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
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, and 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 ar ms 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!"

LilJoe

Guilty until proven innocent in this guy's mind...

EDIT: Apparently this is a slightly less bigoted version of the original, which can be found here.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/worryme.htm

Undetermined.

Aside from the question of authorship, this is not an item that can be branded "true" or "false," because it's merely someone's expression of his opinions. Thematically, it's a more overt expression of the feelings conveyed by such (apocryphal) September 11-related legends as the claim that no taxis were to be found around the World Trade Center the morning of the terrorist attacks: the fear and unease generated by the knowledge that the perpetrators were people who had been living among us undetected for months; people who, although they may have been foreigners, were not out of place amidst the cultural diversity of America. How, then, do we now distinguish friend from foe? Wouldn't it be so much easier if — as advocated here — we could simply assume all ARAB-MUSLIMS to be guilty and demand them to demonstrate otherwise?

But such an approach is not only inimical to many of the principles America stands for, it is also logically flawed. What terrorists bent on the destruction of the USA would hesitate to camouflage themselves by hypocritically waving American flags or professing a false love for the USA? We cannot judge people by outward appearances alone, and that realization leaves us feeling scared and powerless.

The sad thing is that that mail, and countless others like it, are read, approved of, and forwarded en masse by peabrains throughout the country. Slowly infusing this insipid way of thinking into the "debate."

LilJoe

Actually I was not referring to you. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you posted it to stimulate debate. If you posted it because you believe it, then I will have to reassess my reasoning.

I am sure some cases can be found.

They can be found for Christians as well.

This tripe that Lil Joe posted is an example of truly pathetic bigotry. I wish I could see through him as well as he can apparently see through me. Then I would know if he actually believes this or not...

I meant on the hijacked planes which is the way that it reads.

Ah, sorry. I didn't go back to read for the passage. Laziness has its price..

If I recall correctly stewardesses were supposedly killed to entice the pilots to open the doors to the cockpits.

But regardless, these actions say nothing about anyone except the exact individuals who committed them. I can come up with actions carried out by individuals of proabably every country and faith on Earth which are equally reprehensible and carried out in the name of some cause.

I am amazed that any American would pick apart the statements in the letter, whether it is authenic or false, and disagree with its sentiments. It should be a worry to us all that we,and other nations, have been infiltrated with the aim of causing us graet harm by these people. It is time to stop being polotically correst and call a spade a spade.