To Arab-Muslims

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.

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 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 "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 Qur'an
and statements from popular Muslim leaders
to back it up.
What good is it
if the teachings in the Qur'an
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
rather than cover up like a shameful whore?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us
because we drink wine with dinner,
or celebrate Christmas?
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."