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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> The events of September 11th changed the answer. It is not my r esponsibility 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.
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> 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 Jihad's? 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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. It is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand. Until then; " YOU WORRY ME!"
My thoughts after reading this Bob M.
I can understand the frustration of the gentleman that wrote this essay. I feel the frustration every day I talk to the fine Patriotic Citizens of our country. I am tired of having to alter my way of living for the comfort of those coming into our country, whether leagally or illegally. IF a person wants to emigrate to our country, then they should be prepared to be American. I am sick of hearing I am an African American from a person that has never been more than 100 miles away from thier own front door. I am sure that if they were plunked down in Africa and said have at it, they would have NO IDEA what to do. This applies as well to the Mexican Amreicans that have been born and bred here, if Mexico is so great, I am sure that we can get you back there! In fact, this same TRUTH applies to all those that are in our GREAT COUNTRY, if the place you came from is so great, please feel free to return. If the Islamic countries are so great and Allah provides so well for you, go back no harm, no foul. IF YOU DON'T LOVE THIS COUNTRY LEAVE WE DO NOT REQUIRE A PASSPORT TO SEND YOU BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM, Hell Obama does not even care if you come here without one. Bur the LEGAL CITIZENS
> DO. We are tired of supporting you while you laugh and tell us how you deserve to be taken care of by the sweat of other peoples work. We are tired of paying your medical bills while your greatest contribution to our society is to keep popping out babies every nine months for us to support for you also. If you think the country you claim is so great, leave a comment so I can get in touch with you, I am sure I can help arrange travel expenses for you in exchange for a contract that you never set foot in America again. You have to stay in the country you hold so dear to your heart. For all the Muslims that talk about the Infidels you have to live with here, pack up your koran and your flying carpet and go home. Live among those that are so like you. If you were so happy with your life and conditions there, WHY ARE YOU HERE. We don't need you and really don't want you unless you want to be here as am AMERICAN. If you want to be here as an American, then do as immigrants have done for hundreds of years, assimilate and help make america stronger. Oppose those that want to do otherwise. You say not all Muslims believe in Jihad and killing infidels, but those are the ones we see and here from every day, when was the last time we saw a Muslin Cleric on TV telling his people to comdemn those that preach such things? I for one have not seen this. I do know that there are decent hard working muslims out there, it is time to stand up and be counted, not as a Muslim, but as an American. This is my statement for all peoples, no matter who. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE AN AMERICAN, THEN LEAVE GET OUT AND STAY OUT. OUR COUNTRY HAS ALL THE PARASITES IT NEEDS, WE DON'T NEED TO IMPORT ANY MORE. THIS IS NOT A RACIST STATEMENT, JUST THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A TICKET OUT OF HERE JUST LET ME KNOW I WILL TRY TO HELP !!!!
