Because They Hate

FrontPage magazine ^ | Feb 20, 2006 | Brigitte Gabriel

[djf]

[Editor's Note: Below are selected excerpts from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC, Saturday February 18, 2006].

We gather here today to share information and knowledge. Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element of intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and intention of the enemy. The West has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of Allah.

I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as the perpetrators shouted “Allah Akbar!” My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I learned the meaning of the word "infidel."

I had a crash course in survival. Not in the Girl Scouts, but in a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness, freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At the age of 13 I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends--killed by Muslims. We were not Americans living in New York, or Britons in London. We were Arab Christians living in Lebanon.

As a victim of Islamic terror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12, 2001, and asking themselves "Why do they hate us?" The psychoanalyst experts were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend the Muslim World. But if America and the West were paying attention to the Middle East they would not have had to ask the question. Simply put, they hate us because we are defined in their eyes by one simple word: "infidels."

Under the banner of Islam "la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad rasoulu allah," (None is god except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) they murdered Jewish children in Israel, massacred Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews from Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price then. Now infidels worldwide are paying the price for indifference and shortsightedness.

Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn't buy protection. It earns one disrespect and loathing in the enemy's eyes. Yet apathy is the weapon by which the West is committing suicide. Political correctness forms the shackles around our ankles, by which Islamists are leading us to our demise.

America and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless they stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam. You hear about Wahabbi and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam. All the other Muslims, supposedly, are wonderful moderates. Closer to the truth are the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed printed by a Danish newspaper. From burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who mock Islam, to warnings that the West be prepared for another holocaust, those pictures have given us a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. News pictures and video of these events represent a canvas of hate decorated by different nationalities who share one common ideology of hate, bigotry and intolerance derived from one source: authentic Islam. An Islam that is awakening from centuries of slumber to re-ignite its wrath against the infidel and dominate the world. An Islam which has declared "Intifada" on the West.

America and the West can no longer afford to lay in their lazy state of overweight ignorance. The consequences of this mental disease are starting to attack the body, and if they don't take the necessary steps now to control it, death will be knocking soon. If you want to understand the nature of the enemy we face, visualize a tapestry of snakes. They slither and they hiss, and they would eat each other alive, but they will unite in a hideous mass to achieve their common goal of imposing Islam on the world.

This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering basic human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a launching pad of death. A perfect example is a recently elected Hamas official in the Palestinian Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her three sons to death and offering the ones who are still alive for the cause. It is an ideology that is capable of offering highly educated individuals such as doctors and lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and stature, life in society is ever capable of giving them.

The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death, destruction and damnation down on America and its people. The radical Islamists’ deeds have been as vile as their words. Since the Iran hostage crisis, more than three thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost unprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands of other citizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of innocent American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of Islam.

America cannot effectively defend itself in this war unless and until the American people understand the nature of the enemy that we face. Even after 9/11 there are those who say that we must “engage” our terrorist enemies, that we must “address their grievances”. Their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one prophet. It is the respect we instill in our children towards all religions. It is the equality we grant each other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make the world a better place for all humanity. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we are.

Our mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened our enemy to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of life on our civilization.

If we don't wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take action against the terrorists within it, if we don't believe in ourselves as Americans and in the standards we should hold every patriotic American to, we are going to pay a price for our delusion. For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up and take action. In the face of a torrent of hateful invective and terrorist murder, America’s learning curve since the Iran hostage crisis is so shallow that it is almost flat. The longer we lay supine, the more difficult it will be to stand erect.

[Peach]

Great article. Thanks for the ping.

This may have been a great religion once, but it's been hijacked, just like the president says.

I've come to conclude it's no longer a religion but an army disguised as a religion.

[beaversmom]

Thanks for the ping.

[Prince Charles]

Bttt.

[SwinneySwitch]

Those who ignore the past are condemned to repeat it.

Battle (of Vienna 1683)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

At 4 in the morning, on September 12, the Austrian army on the left, and the German forces in the center moved forward, in an attack (which was aimed at preventing another long siege) against the Turks. Mustafa Pasha launched a counter-attack, with most of his force. Then the Polish infantry launched a massive assault upon the right flank. After 12 hours of fighting, Sobieski's Polish force held the high ground on the right.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, four cavalry groups, one of them Austrian-German, and the other three composed of Polish hussars, totaling 20,000 men in all and led by the Polish king, charged down the hills. In the confusion, they made straight for the Ottoman camps, while the Vienna garrison sallied out of its defenses, and joined in the assault. In less than three hours, the Polish forces won the battle, as the Turkish army beat a hasty retreat to the south and east.

The Turks lost about 15,000 men in the fighting, compared to approximately 4,000 for the Habsburg-Polish forces.

(The battle marked the turning point in the 300-year struggle between the forces of the Central European kingdoms, and the Ottoman Empire.)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Another bump.

[USF]

Thanks for the PING(s), FD.

If we don't stand up and stop this now.... America will become another EUrabia and history will repeat itself:

(Note these polls will reflect only those who are brave or stupid enough to admit their thoughts to the kuffar)

UK poll: 37% of Muslims in Britain think British Jews are a "legitimate target"

40% of (British)Muslims want sharia law in UK

'The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state.'

The Saudis have "radicalized" 80% of US mosques with their cash and wahabbi brand of salafyism (see here and here ) and are doing the same in many other nations.

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE CONTENDER FOR THE FACE OF "MAINSTREAM ISLAM"

It spreading as we speak. Now, when do we wake up and do something about it?

If the PC crowd, apologists and useful idiots tie our hands at home, we have to take the battle to its source and neutralize it there.

All roads lead back to Mecca and the current "custodians."

[amom]

Thanks for the heads up to this good read.


bttt

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Vigilanteman]

Bbbbbbbut it's only the 80% who are giving the other 20% a bad name. < / sarcasam>

[djf]

Bttt.

[jan in Colorado]

Thanks for the ping to this great article, FD!

This is a must read and tells the TRUTH about islam and what we are up against!

Brigitte Gabriel nails it...

"The West has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of Allah." [...]

"Yet apathy is the weapon by which the West is committing suicide. Political correctness forms the shackles around our ankles, by which Islamists are leading us to our demise." [...]

"Their grievance is our freedom of religion."

Their grievance is our freedom of speech."

Our press has caved in and refused to print this "offensive" cartoon!

"Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one prophet. It is the respect we instill in our children towards all religions. It is the equality we grant each other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make the world a better place for all humanity. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy.

Their grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we are."

Of course this isn't offensive at all!

Where are the leaders in this Country that will stand up to this threat? Why are we appeasing our enemy?

[Humidston]

Thanks for the ping, BG.

I find myself so conflicted on this issue. On the one hand, I call this a holy war and that term encompasses every Islamic citizen alive. On the other, I see the people of Iraq discovering freedom and I wonder if it's possible to spread that concept.

I think it may be too early to tell....

[djf]

I don't think they value freedom the same way as we. Rather, I tend to think that the ideas of political, economic and religious freedom are not so important.

Their religion IS their politics. And as far as economic freedom, I have heard a number of folks who have been to Arabia. From what they tell me, a handshake from an Arab is just about worthless.
We've always heard about the "cunning" of an Arab trader.

[bayouranger]

There's a great woman. Pity though, she shows more courage in the face of this danger than most FReepers who complain about the "mood" here when posting on islam.