Open Letter From An American Airlines Pilot

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Open Letter From An American Airlines Pilot

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Guys read this and take it as you please - whatever your feelings/convictions.
I see some of this as quite relevant but some particularly the 911 situation as suspect (as to who actually was responsible) there is still quite a lot of conjecture around that particular event. That is my opinion and I'm sure that there is others with similar views - but after all this is an interesting read. This was passed on to me from my Vietnam Veteran Network...

Dizz


Open Letter From An American
Airlines Pilot

CANADIAN COMMENT APPEARS AT THE END OF THE
ARTICLE AND IS MEANINGFUL. THERE IS ALSO SOME
RECENTLY ADDED BRITISH COMMENT.

This pilot hit the nail right on the head in his open letter.

The paper stated 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....
Of particular note is the reference to political correctness that our
Western Governments use to gag our opinions on what is happening
throughout the Western World. In Australia a foolish situation exists
where Australian troops are dying in Afghanistan in an effort to establish
a free and democratic society for the predominantly Muslim population
and yet Government of Australia insists the Country allows
predominantly young, healthy, strong, young Muslim men from
Afganistan to enter Australia ostensibly for protection. How idiotic is
this? These young men should be fighting and dying alongside Australian
soldiers in their own country for the freedoms they say they want – just
like Australians have.
.............................................................
YOU WORRY ME!
By Captain John Maniscalco, American Airlines Pilot

I've been trying to say this since 911, 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. 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, 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, 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 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 it and let it prosper? Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in
one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the freedom that 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 interested only 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, 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 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.

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!"

CANADIAN COMMENTS:

I totally agree with this sentiment. I hope you will forget all about the
'political correctness' mandate we've had rammed down our throats,
and see if this doesn't ring true in your heart and mind. For Canada ,
with all the multiculturalism we've been told is so important....why
should we not, as Canadians, expect that the millions of new people
immigrating to our country will show their love for our country, their
allegiance to our country, their willingness to obey the laws of our
country, and acceptance that we are a Christian country? Just
because they are able to enjoy exercising their own religion, they
should not expect us to be ashamed of ours. They knew Canada was
a Christian country when they came here. Why are we erasing
Christianity because immigrants who are unwilling to adopt our way
of life expect us to? There is just too much insanity in the world, and
we have to start taking a stand.

I hope you will forward this, so that others will feel they are not alone
if they are starting to feel the same.
BRITISH COMMENTS:
At last a clear non racist example of the concerns that the vast majority of
our Nations population probably share. The pilot's letter encapsulates all
that is fair and just about national pride and protection of one's national
culture. I fear it may be too late here in UK but we too want our country
back in the form that attracted all these different cultures to come here in
the first place!! In all our conversations with a wide range of friends and
acquaintances we have not met one that disagrees with our own views. If
only we all had the courage of our convictions to pass this on, it is a
statement that should be accepted as the heart-felt feelings of someone
with honest commendable national pride.
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Post by ADF-CaptCC »

Yes we need to have support, in each field of the Immigration population Pool...

We cannot end up being "them and us" ... or it will never work.. in the long run...

I fought along side Muslims .. and those members protected me like a long lost brother ...

The Problem;

There is a radical number of people in most religions around the World, which appear to cause this tension between us/them as a group of people..

We need to stop the Radicals of all groups , not just the Muslim ones...


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