A message from the heart

Several recent articles written by NBC and other mainline news media have caused me to get sick to my stomach. I am of the opinion that all the media attempts to do is criticize the current administration, the military, and any other group they can find fault with, regardless of whether or not it is true or totally false. I do not see them reporting anything that is of a positive nature. For instance, today’s headlines report that ‘human rights groups’ are complaining about conditions in Guantanamo. Who are they and what is the political heritage of said groups? Where were they and what did they observe on 9-11? If those in detention would care for their ‘Holy Book’ (the Quran) as if it were a sacred book it would not be mistreated or walked upon. I am sick of all this ‘Holier than Thou’ garbage. To this end, I received an email from a colleague of mine who had received it from one who says it like it should be said. I can not help but include it in this blog. I am sure that we are not alone in our feelings.
Dr Mac
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An open letter to all Muslims

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
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 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
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 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.