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Thanks for serving that up and taking the list to an even lower level. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I received this on another forum. I think it deserves attention. Max in > LAS > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:05 PM > Subject: What Are Your Thoughts? > > The following letter was published in the Gazette, Hyattsville, MD > October > 11, 2001, on the Community Forum page. > > 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 anymore. I notice you, and it > worries > me. > > "I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your > homelands, > and 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 nothing can justify the > inhumanity of their attacks. > > On Sept. 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 differentiate between > you. > 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, ... [edited for brevity]... while they plot the next attack that > will > slaughter those very same good neighbors and children? > > The answer to my own questions that it is past the time for me to try to > determine this. The events of Sept. 11th changed the answer. It is > time > for every Arab-Muslim in this country to determine it for me. > > I want to know, I demand to know, if you love America. Do you pledge > allegiance to its flag? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that > Allah > will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it? 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? Are you > willing > to preserve this freedom with the spilling of your own blood? 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 religion to protect the United States of America. Please, > no > more benign overtures of regret for the death of the "innocent" (I worry > who > you regard as "innocent") and condemnation of "unprovoked" attacks (I > worry > 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-- the country > -- > at this time of crisis, at this time of war? > > I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the flag in the streets. I want to > hear > you chanting "Allah Bless America." I want to see Arab-Muslim young men > enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money and 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. Deliver them up, 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 reprisal. > > The few Arab-Muslim representatives that have appeared on the media are > defensive and equivocating. They seem more concerned with making sure > the > U.S. prove who is responsible before they act, and protecting their own > people from any violence directed toward them, here in the U.S. and > abroad. > > 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. > > Because even if the teachings in the Koran are good and pure and true, > it > matters little if large numbers of current Islamic practitioners > interpret > the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form > of > the religion. > > I want to know where every Arab-Muslim in this country stands and I > think it > is within 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. > > 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. > > (signed) Kevin Daly, Beltsville > > This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from > http://www.printcharger.com/emailStripper.htm > > > ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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