This pilot hit the nail on the head in his open letter.  He needs to be
awarded a Medal for having the TESTICULAR FORTUITUDE to say all this in a
very profound way!  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 to say this sinc e 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/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 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 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 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 way 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 th ousands 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!"