Posted on 07/24/2002 3:54:15 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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.
Until then ... you worry me.
Capt. John Maniscalco is a pilot for American Airlines.
Liberals will, when one of their pet icons is shown to have made up their Pulitzer-Prize-winning story, defend said icon by saying "He was representing a higher truth," or similar bilge.
As for what prompted suspicion: this guy is NOT going to write stuff like this with his name AND his employer's name attached to it unless he has a burning desire to be unemployed.
Dismayed?
They should be scared s-----ss!
The most eloquent silence in history and impossible to "undo".
The statement has been made and it made it clear in my mind that it is final. It's us or them.
OK. Another history lesson for the arab knuckledraggers, a bit more final this time, I hope.
Not doing so indicates an unflattering characteristic.
Why?
For some people, their opinion, is priceless; Legends in their own mind.
Whether they are wearing loincloth and carrying a sharp stick or have an advanced university degree, educated way beyond their intelligence.
"The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things -- and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about." - Thomas Sowell
The number of white males age 20-40 present compared to the number of white male age 20-40 serial killers is not at all similar to the number of muslim males age 20-40 compared to the number of muslim males age 20-40 who desire the death of all non-muslims.
If you want to make an argument, have some reasoning. Your argument is emotional, not logical.
Welcome to Free Republic and thanks for the advice.
Nothing personal, but I won't keep myself informed through comic books either.
And it doesn't bother me one whit what you think about "me not having tried them".
I do note that in spite of your obvious feelings on the subject, even you can't shake the PC influence of years:
"...don't seem to be helping much"?
Is that like "Alleged killer"? After he is caught on tape and in front of 50 witnesses?
There is no level of PC that can ever prompt me to call him "Mr.", or "alleged" anything.
"...and the "good" ones are not helping at all" is the more accurate and factual statement.
Or appear to?
As far as I'm concerned, obtaining citizenship under fraudulent means is a temporary expedient to a longer term goal.
As for the "useful idiots"? They have always been among us; and always empowered by better men then themselves.
The answer is simple: it is called deflection and/or changing the subject, and prevents discussion of the topic when it obviously casts the Muslim Mass Murderers in a bad light.
I am surprised Israeli atrocities, Zionism, Nazi and racism have not yet popped up on this thread.
Anything to change the subject from the obvious.
Typical MMM technique.
Sorry, wrong answer. I questioned the article's attribution because I *do not believe* an AA pilot wrote it.
I am surprised Israeli atrocities, Zionism, Nazi and racism have not yet popped up on this thread.
It may pop up, but anyone who calls me pro-Muslim terrorist or anti-Israel has NOT been paying attention.
I have to say, I'm a bit suspicious also, Captain. Google searching on just "John Maniscalco" produces this result. There are several John Maniscalco's referred to: SeaLife Center researcher John Maniscalco, Captain John Maniscalco of the Bend, OR police, NY Oil Heating Association Executive Vice President John Maniscalco, this John Maniscalco, who has unusual tastes in videos, and this John Maniscalco, who has unusual tastes in relatives.
But the only references to Captain John Maniscalco of American Airlines that I could see were multiple copies of this email purporting to be from such a person.
Yrs,
general_re, Lord High Admiral of the Ocean Blue, Spanish-American War Veteran, United States Astronaut (ret.), and Current Guinness Book World-Record Holder for the Longest Continuous Period of Sustained Chainsaw Juggling
(Hey, what difference does it make?)
Hello fellow aviatrix
I call you that as I read your post yesterday on you and your husbands life and his dedication to our country. As a career AF (retired) aviators son and current aviator myself I salute your families dedication to our country. And welcome to FR. Now, ignore the naysayers and uninformed. I did a search on the FAA database this morning and Captain John Maniscalco is indeed who he says he is.
As for the patriots on this board your will find more than a few here. Be patient, you will get to learn who is who. I recently signed on the beginning of this year after a tip from a friend guided me here. As with any board, take what you read and what you see with a grain of salt and your tongue in your cheek, especially when responding. As I said there are many good folks on the board, but the rest I have found to be malcontents who wouldn't be happy no matter who was in office, what laws were passed or repealed under any circumstances and will always see the glass as half empty. You will see the phrase "tin foil" used here a lot. Meaning there are a lot of conspiracy theorists and "the government is out to get me" types. I really wonder sometimes whether aliens have eroded their brainwaves and erased their thought process by not wearing their reflective tin foil hats. But fortunately they are far fewer in numbers than the good folks. For the most part FR is a wonderful place for news and current events.
I'll take this opportunity to welcome you into the USO Freeper Canteen, since you and yours are proud military members. You'll find like minds there and it to be an enjoyable experience. With that said, Snow Bunny, meet getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL.
And finally, I agree with you and JohnHuang2 and think Captain Maniscalco is deadly accurate with his assesment. When I see the arab population of this country stand up and be counted, then and ONLY then will I open my heart and mind to them. In my eyes, they are still the enemy whether on our soil or back in their own sandpit. Have a great day.
Eagle
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