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aglore
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The NSA: a government organization that actually listens to you!
"YOU WORRY ME
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, 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 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
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 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 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 defended Johnny Cochran and
O. J. Simpson after the latter butchered his wife and murdered an innocent
friend. 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 refus.
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, 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."
"Until then ... YOU WORRY ME."
AlleninAlaska
Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
Edited by - aglore on 08/01/2002 14:48:09
JMHO
For war Veterans no less,.. I think it is time for me to go,.. Piss on all of You,.. Except Woody
Larry
Nunn,,,,, are you running amock with a fake ID trying to get under
my skin? If you are,,, your doin' a damn good job.[}:)]quote:Originally posted by woodguru
I first found this out on a big SS barbeque that wasn't a big deal, but it came out so good I didn't hesitate touching up kitchen stainless. Use either a 220, 320, 400, or 600 grit sandpaper to match the scratches that were the original surface, the right grit makes an amazingly good match, if you can't match it exacly use a small sanding block and use strokes the whole front to back staying perfectly straight with the grain. Just give it a new grain if you can't match, it will look amazingly good.
PS, that wasn't by any chance your wife was it? I got pretty pissed at mine when she took the Henkel chef's knife and scrubbed against the grain with a scotch brite pad. I yelled at her and now I wash the knives. [:)] I criticized her for putting the crystal Reidel wine glasses in the dishwasher and now I have to do them by hand. Now I really think about what's worth saying anything about. [:p]
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Rugster
Very nice. And to point out, I think it is fairly easy to differentiate between the "good" Muslims, and the bad.
I have a few Muslim friends.......they are some of the nicest and hardest working people I've ever met. I have two that work for me, also. They are great people. One of the few employees that I don't have to worry about stealing from me. If they did, their parents would kill them.
I don't agree with their religion, but I don't agree with most religions, either. I don't respect them for their religion, but I do respect the fact that they stick to their guns about their beliefs. None of their daughters have been pregnant (hehe...or even dated!) out of wedlock, and all of their kids are in the top 5% of their classes. When their kids come home from school, they have MORE homework to do that their mother assigns them. Please note that there are MANY MANY MANY offsets of Muslims. Most of the people I know aren't "fundamentalists" but they certainly have high morals. Higher than most whites or hispanics I know.
One thing I do admire is their family, and the way they take care of each other. Recently, my friend Anwar drove 6 hours to LA to take care of his friend's store while he was in the hospital (for one day). Anwar has three different businesses, 5 kids, and two invalid parents. He works 90-100 hours a week. Does he have time to go to LA? No. Did he do it? Yes. We should all be lucky to have friends like that.
I know that at any time, I can call any of them, and they'll help me out. They are good people.
Merc
Oh......when 9/11 happened, I called my friend Sohail......he was literally in tears over it. He was so upset. I was quite shocked......he wasn't raised in this country, yet was angrier than most people. Like he said "I'm an American, and this sickens me....." (He is from Pakistan, been here 25 years)
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt