Posted on 03/04/2006 8:29:25 PM PST by FFforFreedom
Islam's March Against the West By Brigitte Gabriel
Excerpted 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 mind set 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 drinking my blood to survive as the perpetrators shouted Allah Akbar. My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. I learned at 10 years old the meaning of the word "infidel." I had a crash course in survival not in 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 thirteen I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night waiting to be slaughtered and by the age of 20 I had buried most of my friends who were 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 12th 2001 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? If America and the west were paying attention to the Middle East they would not have had to even ask the question. Simply put, they hate me and you because we are defined in their eyes by one simple word, "infidels."
Under the banner of Islam "la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad rasoulu allah," there is no God but Allah, Muhammad is his prophet, 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 out of Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price then and for their indifference and shortsightedness infidels worldwide are paying the price now.
Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn't buy protection, it earns disrespect and loathing in the enemy's eyes. Apathy is the weapon by which the west is committing suicide. Political correctness is 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 are wonderful moderates. I hope the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence from around the world in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed from burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who mock Islam, or to warnings to be prepared for the real holocaust, has given you a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. The news pictures and video of these events represents 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 human basic 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 it raised its 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 Muslims 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 shortsighted 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.
Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. She's the former news anchor of World News for Middle East television and the founder of American Congress for Truth.com. Brigitte Gabriel is the author of a forthcoming book on the same subject to be published by St. Martin's Press later in 2006.
"Islam will continue to march because the West is still, thus far, unwilling to call it what it is and fight our enemy fully."
I agree whole heartedly
I also believe that in some respects it is a very complicated war.
First you misread and misinterpret what this essay by Brigitte Gabriel was all about. When I try and correct you, you say she's painting with a broad brush. Even when other Freepers point out how wrong you are, you continue misstating the authors position.
Throughout this thread you have given the impression that the Islamic world in general, is a critical ally to America, who we can't do without and who we can't afford to piss off. What spineless drivel. We're the super power. They're a bunch of theocratic sheikdoms. Then you throw Turkey up as some sort of template for all Islamic states to follow. What baloney.
Then out of the blue, you agree with me that killing "jihadists" and "islamofascists" is good, yet in the next breath, you qualify that remark by once again saying we can't go overboard and upset our Muslim allies.
I say we should embody some of the philosophy that PresReagan employed in winning the Cold War, and you have no response whatsoever. As the US becomes more energy indepenedent, we can stop buying ME oil. Nothing wrong with that. Such a policy may not bankrupt the ME oil producers at first, but it would cut them down to size and cut funding for terrorsim. You object to that too. One of the basic conservative tenets. Take care of your own first, everyone else is secondary. You seem to have a problem with that conservative philosophy and its America first attitude.
Conclusion, you're a status quo centrist who supports Bush, right or wrong. You ignore the facts and promote a globalist strategy for America. I don't like your politics.
That's good to hear. Sleep well.
Maybe I should clarify it for you.... How many terrorists have we captured or killed in Iran since 9/11? Now How many terrorists have we captured or killed in Pakistan? How about Yemen? Saudi Arabia? Do you now understand that without their help, short of invading every country we will not only lose, but this movement will grow.
Nothing you can say at this point will change my mind. I do not like your politics. The US is engaged in a war on terror that encompasses the entire world, but centralized in the ME. If the US has to take on Iran, followed by Syria and later down the road Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and even the UAE, SO BE IT! War is not for the faint of heart. We should never kowtow to the enemy because they hold access to oil over our heads. We should never appease the Islamic nationstates, who just a short time ago sponsored terrorism, gave cover to Osama Bin Laden and condoned killing Americans. The theocratic sheikdoms of these Islamic nationstates shouldn't be trusted in the long term. And they shouldn't be fully trusted in the short term either. The US will lose the WOT if we lose sight of the big picture. The Islamic world hates America and our way of life. You don't understand that and never will. This isn't a game of diplomacy. This is a matter of life and death for the USA and westerm civlization.
Thanks.... great article... shoulda been read at the oscars
Not only don't I like your politics, I don't like you attitude either. You have a cavalier attitude to your posts. One that shows no respect for this poster. Don't usually make an issue out of posting times, but I replied to you at 11:46 PM-MST. You wandered back at 1:25 AM-MSD, 17 posts and 100 minutes later. You're not serious about this debate. You're playing games. Stop wasting my time.
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