After forty years of countless hollow victories, Abbas and Haniyeh celebrate another one, this time the forming of a unity government. Already the
The moral of the story is: all ye who are invaded and occupied, give up all thoughts and actions of resistance. Then, after we've occupied you for an indeterminate period of time (which we unilaterally decide and it could be years or decades), if you say you love us and forgive us for our brutality and oppression and killing and destruction, we might, just possibly, there's a slight chance of, don't get your hopes up mind you, we could, it's not guaranteed remember, allow you to have your own country as long as you don't mind that we keep most of it, and that we set all the peace terms, and that you agree that, from the air, the sea and the land, we still continue to control your bastardised, inferior, non-sovereign land.
Sounds fair, doesn't it?
P.S. Friends, forgive me for this little slip. It's hard for me to sit on the sidelines thinking about personal peace while such terrible injustices are going on. However I must try! Now where was I? Oh, yes: humans are good, humans are good, humans...
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Sorry to spoil your cornflakes this morning, but I received this email overnight from my only Jewish friend...I think he wanted to give me indigestion knowing how strongly I feel about the Palestein issue....you may or may no want to develop indigestion along with me! Mary Walsh
Mr. Muslim - You worry me!
This is the most profound, most insightful message to Muslims I've seen. I think it should be read on Fox, sent to the President, the congress and forwarded to any other form of media to express what so many of us feel toward Muslims.
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.
(A Letter From An American Airlines Pilot) This well spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines, says what is in his heart beautifully....read, absorb and pass on..
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YOU WORRY ME!
By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco
"I've been trying to say this since 9-11 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, 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.
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/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 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 with 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. 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 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 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 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.
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 FRIENDLY CIVILIZED SOCIETY in the Muslim/Arab area, that thinks and acts like most Americans.
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"
LET'S COVER EVERY WESTERN COUNTRY WITH THIS ONE!
Jacques
The American man's sincerity is obvious, Mary, but, in reading it, the total lack of balance it conveys is extraordinary. And the level of nationalistic fanaticism is frightening.
The butchery that is carried out on a daily basis by Americans and Israelis to further their imperial, religious and military ambitions is not even mentioned or seen for what it is.
It didn't mix welll with my cornflakes! Cheers.
there are many right wing propaganda emails floating around. i also get a few anti racism emails that are prejudiced against black folks. it never ceases to amaze me. all it takes is a few moments thought to parse out the difference between extremism and just your average folks. the best 'excuse' i have heard yet is- well at the fundamentalist christians don't kill people. uh huh. so that makes their fanaticism ok. i won't go off too much on a tangent. the lazy, simple minded thinking patterns of americans bothers the hell out of me. the reasons are many but the end result is the same- it is easier to let someone else think for you and tell you what to do than it is to use your brain for abstract and complex thought. i guess that was more in response to the comment above.
as for the palestinian-israeli thing- i am tired of it. most of it boils down to religion. we support them because they are founded by jews and we are christians. they helped us out during the cold war against the spread of communism- so we have to help them keep our oil flowing. meanwhile, hypocrisy abounds and innocent folks are being killed. oh- and fyi- humans have proven themselves to be inherently selfish and ugly beings. but if it brings you peace- then humans are good :)
'Humans have proven themselves to be inherently selfish and ugly beings,' you say Betmo.
My good friend Craig would take issue with you on this but I certainly won't. By their works ye shall know them, wasn't it? I keep trying to think positively about human beings but it takes some doing! We're a pretty disgusting lot! Cheers.
Yes, "humans are good", and "all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds," and astronauts have never really visited the moon or they would have brought back more cheese.
The message of your post needs to be repeated again and again. Thank you.
Unfortunately, Fleming, the ones who hold the power never read blogs like ours. They live in another world, a ruthless one. Cheers.
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