YOU WORRY ME! An Open Letter to All Muslim Americans

The following letter to all Muslim Americans is attributed to Captain John Maniscalco, an American Airlines Pilot, though its real origins remain murky. I’m republishing it here because it speaks my thoughts in an unprejudiced way better than I’ve ever said them myself:

[I’ve added a few of my own comments in brackets.]

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 MORE of the 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?  … 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 [because I rarely see these feelings or hear these beliefs proudly expressed by Muslim Americans].

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. [Because I don’t see Muslim Americans demonstrating the same love for America that many of the rest of us who have come to this land feel for this nation.]

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. [Are you, as Muslim Americans, risking your lives, as others have done for this country to root out this evil from among you. Are you exposing it wherever you see it and publicly arguing against it? Is your love for America greater than your self-preservation … because America was founded by people whose love for freedom was greater than their self-preservation?]

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. [And now a form that causes Muslim Americans to travel to foreign countries in order to join ISIS in its effort to kill other Americans and Christians. I would like to hear what you do to oppose this recruiting in your mosques and in your communities. I’d like to see you less vocal in defending the reasons such recruitment works and more vocal in simply opposing it.]

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!”

 

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3 Comments

  1. Ping from Michelle Simmons:

    Now Obama has even made it so they don’t have to swear certain parts of the alliance….

    “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it will no longer require incoming U.S. citizens to pledge that they will “bear arms on behalf of the United States” or “perform noncombatant service” in the Armed Forces as part of the naturalization process.

    Those lines are in the Oath of Allegiance that people recite as they become U.S. citizens. But USCIS said people “may” be able to exclude those phrases for reasons related to religion or if they have a conscientious objection.

    USCIS said people with certain religious training or with a “deeply held moral or ethical code” may not have to say the phrases as they are naturalized.

    The agency said people don’t have to belong to a specific church or religion to use this exemption, and may attest to U.S. officials administering the oath that they have these beliefs.”
    Read more at http://100percentfedup.com/obamas-america-incoming-u-s-citizens-no-longer-required-to-pledge-they-will-bear-arms-on-behalf-of-the-united-states/

  2. Ping from tjb323:

    I totally agree. Why are they not speaking out against the beheadings of all the christians or anyone else who they don’t like. Great article, to bad it will not happen.

    • Ping from Knave_Dave:

      I have been disappointed by the lack of patriotism toward America that I have seen in general among Muslim immigrants, who often seem more critical of America than supportive, more prone to indicate that it is America’s fault when things like 9/11 happen, and maybe even more likely to leave America to fight in a foreign war against American soldiers than to fight for America. Prior to the recent increase in Muslim immigration, most immigrants who came here had a high regard for America. That was why they came. It leaves me wondering why some people come now.

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