" You Worry Me"

[Alex The Hawk]

those who claim their terrorist members do not represent them...why are their leaders not
LOUDLY AND FIERCELY AND CONTINUOUSLY condemning their visible murderous
brethren.
By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco

"I've been trying to 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. 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, 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/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 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 with
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. 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 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 large 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.

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 you 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 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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LET'S COVER THE COUNTRY WITH THIS ONE

[Charlie P]

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origins of "You Worry Me" remain murky "” it first appeared on the Internet in June 2002, but attempts to verify whether its real author is an American Airlines pilot and/or someone named John Maniscalco have led to dead ends. According to the FAA Registry, John Maniscalco is indeed a real pilot, but this item was also printed in a less vitriolic form in the Hyatsville, Maryland, Gazette (under the title "An open letter to my Arab-Muslim neighbors") on 12 October 2001 and credited to a Kevin Daly of Beltsville. Newspaper publication of a piece as a letter to the editor is not a reliable indicator of true authorship, however, as demonstrated by another widely-circulated Internet piece about President Clinton that was printed in several different newspapers under the names of at least four different people. The Gazette letter might have been based on the Internet version, or the Internet version might be an altered transcription of the Gazette letter; John Maniscalco might have been the original author (or alterer), or he might have been someone whose name became attached to the piece simply because he forwarded it to others.