- Editor's Note - Below are selected excerpts from Brigitte
Gabriel's speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC.
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- 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.
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- 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.'
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- 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, 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.
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- 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?'
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- 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.'
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- America and the West can no longer afford to lay
in their lazy state of overweight ignorance. The consequences of this mental
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 Islamist 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 AmericanCongressforTruth.com
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- More bio info at:
- http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/BrigitteGabriel.php
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- Complete article is at
- http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19016
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