YOU WORRY ME
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"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.
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 September 11th changed the answer. It is not my
responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country,
with ALL of it's religions, with ALL of it's different citizens,
with all of it's 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 it's
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." 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 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 a 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?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine with
dinner, or celebrate our religious holidays? 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."