You worry me ... very interesting ... anyone else with an opinion ? PLEASE READ.................... 

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 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 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 will 
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. 

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 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!'