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Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America (essential reading on Middle East)
The Heritage Foundation ^
| 2006
| Brigitte Gabriel
Posted on 11/24/2006 7:17:50 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. In 1975 she was ten years old and living in Lebanon when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against Lebanese Christians. Lebanon was the only Christian influenced country in the Middle East, and the Lebanese Civil War was the first front in what has become the worldwide jihad of fundamentalist Islam theology against non-Muslim peoples.
Based upon her personal experiences, Garbriel addresses the Wests lack of understanding and ignorance of the ways and thinking of the Middle East. She identifies mistakes the West has made in consistently underestimating the single-mindedness with which fundamentalist Islam has pursued its goals over the past thirty years. Through the telling of her own story, she outlines the history, social movements, and religious divisions that have led to todays critical conflict.
A compelling and captivating personal story with a powerful lesson about threats to freedom in our time. R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-95
(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: abuhamza; apesanspigs; christian; dhimmis; gwot; infidels; islam; islamichatred; islamofascism; jihad; lebanon; maronite; nonmuslims; religionofpieces; rop; wot
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To: Clintonfatigued
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posted on
11/24/2006 8:45:08 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Muslims wear us down through terrorism.They should be worn down through mockery & criticism-Fjordman)
To: bnelson44
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posted on
11/24/2006 8:54:32 PM PST
by
SweetCaroline
(***Your own healing is the Greatest Message of Hope to others!***)
To: Racehorse
Gabriel does not appear to agree. Indeed, during the question and answer period she berated moderate Muslims for not flooding into the streets to demonstrate and protest against the 7th century behavior of radical Muslims.
The fact Muslims have not spoken out only proves my point. The so called "majority" who supposedly disagree with the violence perpetrated by the "minority" would or could have easily suppressed any further violence.
It has been repeatedly said the reason Muslims don't speak out is due to fear of violent repercussion. The notion the minority controls the overwhelming majority is illogical. Muslims don't speak out because the violent methods used are prefaced on Sharia Law. There is no distinction between religion and state to Muslims. Religion is the state and the state is based on Sharia Law. The links below illustrate their beliefs.
Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims
Endless Jihad
The Truth about Islam and Violence
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posted on
11/24/2006 9:04:30 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
To: All
The 1860 civil war left more than 15,000 Christians dead and more than ten thousand homeless. Later, however, the Ottoman foreign ministry imprisoned the Druze leaders involved in the war, and even punished a number of Ottoman officers and officials for having failed to prevent the 1860 civil war.
This was the first Lebanese civil war between Christians and Muslims.
http://phoenicia.org/christiansmea.html#Lebanon
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posted on
11/24/2006 10:07:55 PM PST
by
Sun
(If we lose the Senate, the Dems will have control of the judiciary committee. Vote on Nov. 7)
To: Dick Bachert
"Political Correctness"= "Those who control language control minds."
yitbos
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posted on
11/24/2006 11:14:44 PM PST
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
To: Dick Bachert
The phrase "po;itical correctness" first came from Lenin..
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:53:45 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Rembrandt
Maybe this time we stop after the jihadists are destroyed and defeated, instead of any largesse..
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posted on
11/25/2006 4:55:48 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: sheik yerbouty; Kakaze; Dark Skies; metmom
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posted on
11/26/2006 11:49:50 AM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(Corporatism is not conservatism)
To: Clintonfatigued
Thank you for the ping and the compliment on my tag line.
She is a very strong woman.
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posted on
11/26/2006 12:35:43 PM PST
by
Kakaze
(Exterminate Islamofacism and Apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
To: Clintonfatigued
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posted on
11/26/2006 12:36:53 PM PST
by
VOA
To: Clintonfatigued
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posted on
11/26/2006 12:52:08 PM PST
by
Dark Skies
("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
To: SlowBoat407
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posted on
11/26/2006 8:25:37 PM PST
by
Oorang
(Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
To: Oorang
Thanks for the ping. She's been a busy woman lately, doing interviews and appearances all over the country. It does seem like the message is finally sinking in, at least to people who were on the fence.
I don't know if anything can be done about the die-hards who think we actually have something that radical islam wants. Many of them still think that they have a "legitimate" grievance because the West is wealthy at the expense of dungheaps in the ME where radical islam flourishes.
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posted on
11/27/2006 5:47:56 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(A living insult to islam since 1959)
To: Clintonfatigued
Just stumbled across this thread. Great video, thanks!
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