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I don't know how many if any have seen / read this and while it is lengthy it IS very well written and worth the read IMHO.



CANADIAN & AUSTRALIAN COMMENT

APPEARS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE
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....

- Read, absorb.......and pass this on.





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 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? 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.



AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS:

It is exactly the same "DOWN UNDER" in that our culture is being destroyed not by militant & extreme Muslims but by our own politically correct "do gooders" who somehow have elected themselves to a position whereby they can create unwanted change under a cloak of anonimity.The silent majority is not apathetic but does not understand how to react to regain our lost position before it is too late.

WE, THE PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE A STAND. WE HAVE TO DO WHAT IS NEEDED TO BE DONE, FOR OUR GOVERNMENT/S HAVE NO BACKBONE. THE GOODY-DO-GOODERS HAVE NEAR CRIPPLED THIS COUNTRY WITH SO MANY IDOTIC IDEAS, THAT THE COUNTRY IS DOOMED, UNLESS ACTION IS SOON TAKEN. IN 20 TO 25 YEARS OUR AUSTRALIA WILL BE NO LONGER. BELIEVE THAT OR NOT.. IT IS SO TRUE.

TOO GOOD TO JUST READ AND DELETE -- LET'S SATURATE NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, UK,
EUROPE, USA, CANADA AND THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD WITH THIS ONE!

MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO HAD THE COURAGE TO WRITE THE ABOVE AND MAY GOD
BLESS THOSE WHO READ AND PASS THIS ON AND MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO WILL HELP STOP THE INSANITY!


It is about time that governments and do gooders listened to what the majority of British/CANADAN/AUSTRALIAN citizens feel.

And your point is? This was not proven to be a falsehood nor is it vitriolic as your Snopes article would have you think. The article/ letter still is spot on in regards to the Muslim community not calling out the radicals that live / breath and enjoy the freedoms that Our country affords them. They know they're here and do nothing to flush them out nor denounce their radicalism.

They can denounce all they want. Think it will mean anything in terms of fear and concern? Isn't this still a country where our religious beliefs are private? What method and degree of renouncement will suffice to make people more comfortable? How does the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" fit into this? For the sake of discussion, what say you?

innocence is presumed. only guilt must be proven, thank G-d.

I just don't understand the comment you replied to.

Oh come on......it works for Israel!

I believe this as well, however when their rights are protected more strictly than others I have a REAL problem with that. And that is exactly the case in Dearborn, MI. when a group of christian students stood outside of a Muslim festival peacefully offering pamphlets to any one passing by. The video of the incident will clarify who's rights are being defended and whose are cast aside.


http://taralynnthompson.blogspot.com/2010/06/christians-arrested-in-michigan-for.html

A mere mortal would have taken the bait. HD would have pushed full throttle.
And then, who the hell knows where this thread would end up after another 20-25 posts!

The rights of religious freedom and the freedom to demonstrate in public by handing out pamphlets on public property- are two distinctly different rights. They were inappropriately combined in that video to insinuate that Dearborn is pro-Islam/anti-Christian and that Sharia, rather than U.S. law, is given preferential deference. Maybe that is the way things really are there, but that video does nothing to prove it.

The entire video- all the way to the point where the guy said he was finally far enough away from the festival to be in compliance- had nothing at all to do with his Christian message. Instead, it has to do with demonstrating in the right place and at the right time.

Both common sense and the law dictate that freedom to demonstrate by handing out pamphlets in a public place-is never absolute. It can be controlled or restricted whenever and wherever there is a compelling government interest and narrowly tailored/least restrictive means. I did not see the cops read or review the pamphlet contents. We didn't hear anything substantive stated by any of the officers about the pamphlet contents either. So, it doesn't look like anything shown in that video was pro-Arab or Muslim/anti-Christian- in any way at all.

Perhaps the pamphleteers should have just simply applied for a permit to stand there and express themselves- but we both know that is not what they wanted to do. Instead, they just wanted to show the police telling them to move elsewhere and twist it to mean something completely different. Kind of the exact same thing Michael Moore does so well to try to entertain people.

Now, I do agree that the reaction by the police and the number of officers immediately involved, came quick- almost spooky-quick, but that doesn't surprise me one bit when I think about it. It simply looked like a squad of officers assigned to make certain to protect a large crowd of fair-goers and others in a public place. Nothing wrong with that. To have done or planned otherwise would have been irresponsible.

The only thing possibly wrong was the officer blocking the camera lens. I do not know if that is legal or not, and have not really considered the matter- because there was never any complaint that sights or sounds were missed as a result of the officer's actions. Certainly, however, one can't claim it constituted censorship without first showing the officer knew the contents of the pamphlets.

The rest of the video shows three different people standing on three different Dearborn street corners, proclaiming they will be arrested at those corners because of the content of their pamphlets. This, in and of itself, does not make their proclamations to be true- no matter how many people do and say the exact same thing at as many different corners possible. Maybe, better put: "Just because they said so doesn't necessarily make it true." It very well may be true. They just didn't prove it.

hmm, not sure. But I hope it did not mean that the "community" should be hauled in for questioning.

It doesn't make giant news stories but it is covered and administrative detention orders and the emergency powers law.

We actually have some of the same authority here through the Patriot Act although not nearly as expansive in the duration of detention. We also have a bunch of neat FEMA detention camps already built and maintained. Eventually the USA will use them. I don't expect they'll be used just because of skin or versions of the Bible.

If the Muslims ever made up 60% of our government, here is a hint........CONVERT!

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Pamphleteering on public property is not an absolute right. It is always subject to reasonable restrictions when there is a compelling state interest.

The people in your video knew exactly what they were doing when they did it, and they had a specific reason for doing it. They planned it out well in advance. They accomplished exactly what they set out to do. They did not make any mistake.

Passing out Christian (or any other religion's) liturgy to those of another religion, knowing perfectly well that doing so is an affront to those of the other religion, is wrong. It is not a proper way to treat others. It is, at the very least, disrespectful, whether or not there is a complaint. Moreover, what the people in your video did violates Islamic law, per your very video.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see or hear anyone in your video complain. However, even if someone did and I simply missed it, that still has nothing to do with any of this. Neither does whatever Rev. Farrakhan's people do in your town. It was not part of the video. It does not take place in Dearborn. Your bringing it up after the fact just "muddies the waters" even more.

last, but certainly not least, slurring one you are "arguing" with (ad hominem abusive) does not prove that person's opinion, statemen(s) of fact or conclusion(s) to be wrong.

The last word to me on any of this is yours...

I sleep just fine wrapped in the protection of the Patriot Act.

Would you prefer anti-Vietnam War protests? Anti-Iraq War protests?

All photo-ops that wasted and diverted law enforcement time. I can't recall too many protests that were designed to be stealthy and go unnoticed.

It is just more selective morality. If we think the protest subject was worthwhile, It was not a waste and diversion of law enforcement personnel. If we think the protest was BS, It was a waste and diversion of law enforcement personnel.

I sorta doubt we're still trying to question 400 suspects that the Muslims are hiding.

They're just here for the cheese....

Here is my beef with the claim/"argument" that Arab/Muslim rights trump all other people's rights in Dearborn: Comparing a single public fair there to a single effort at pamphlaterring outside that fair, per that video, has way too many unrelated, unknown variables, to draw any legitimate conclusions.

Here is my beef with the reliance on the video: It does not substantiate the claim that the rights of Arabs/Muslims supersede non-Arab/non-Muslim rights of any sort. Nor does it substantiate the claim that handing out non-Islamic religious literature to Muslims in Dearborn will lead to arrest. Maybe it will. The video just doesn't come close to showing or proving it.

Here is where I think the disconnect occurred: 1) the right to hold and/or attend a public fair is different than the right to 2) pamphleteer on public property. They are two totally different things. The analysis for each differs. Drawing conclusions from the two, without first separating the two for individual scrutiny/analysis, is not the right way to even begin to analyze the law or its consequences.

I have no problem with anyone who wants to protest or demonstrate on public property, provided that there is compliance with respect to proper time and place requirements, if any. I will always have a problem with any protest or demonstration that is thwarted because of the content of the message.

So the only issue here is that these guys should have had some sort of permit like Westboro Baptist Church always does and then it wouldn't be a waste and diversion of law enforcement.

I wonder how many civil rights, anti-Vietnam permits, and anti-Iraq war protests had proper permits!

Wow!

Doesn't matter...they'll affect you.

DNC...RNC...WTO...NWO...GET IN YOUR FREE SPEECH ZONE!!!!