Anlass zu diesem "Pamphlet" war ein arabisch-muslimischer Fluggast, der beim Einchecken dreimal gefilzt wurde und wegen Diskriminierung klagte.
Ich stelle den Text und die Kommentare unbearbeitet und bewusst nicht übersetzt in meinen Blog, weil ich heikle Passagen nicht durch einen anderen Zungenschlag möglicher Weise verfälschen wollte. Ich hoffe, das überfordert meine Leser nicht.
Es wird hier klar, dass PEGIDA-Denken nicht nur bei uns, sondern vor allem in den Vereinigten Staaten aus einer permanenten Angst entspringt. Das zeigen auch die integrierten Kommentare:
AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT SPEAKS HIS MIND:
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
colour 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, favourite 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 neighbours 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 will 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 TC
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 travelling 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
neighbour, my friend, as a fellow American ...... But there can be no grey
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.
BRITISH COMMENTS: At last a clear non-racist example of the concerns that the vast majority of our nation's 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. Not all Muslims are terrorists ... but all terrorists to date have been Muslims. Stand up and be counted!
AUSTRALIAN COMMENT: Best email I have had in years .... it needs to be in every paper every day until we get some answers. Australian politicians of all persuasions should take note, because we, the people, are also WORRIED.
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