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The Real Story of the Lebanese Civil War
From Brigitte Gabriel who lived it...
She says that Lebanon was a beautiful advanced country that was majority Christian until the Palestineans who were kicked out of Jordan by the king were taken in by the kind, multicultural Christians who became prisoners in their own homes as Islamist radicals took over their country and used it as a base against Israel. She says that Israel invaded to save these people as well as defend their own borders by beating back Syrian guns.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose....the West is still deaf, dumb and blind...
Brigitte Gabriel (a.k.a. Nour Saman, born October 21, 1964) is the pseudonym, of a Lebanese American journalist, author, and activist.[2][1] Gabriel says that Islam keeps countries backward,[3][4] and that it teaches terrorism.[5][6][7] In order to promote such views, Gabriel founded the American Congress For Truth and ACT! for America so that citizens may "fearlessly speak out in defense of America, Israel and Western civilization."[8]
She frequently speaks at American conservative-leaning organizations such as The Heritage Foundation, Christians United for Israel, Evangelicals and Jewish groups.[9]
Brigitte Gabriel was born in the Marjayoun District in Lebanon to a Christian family.
Gabriel recalls that during the Lebanese Civil War, militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near her family's house and bombed her home, and consequently she and her parents were forced to live in an 8'x10' bomb shelter underground for seven years with only a small kerosene heater, no sanitary systems, no electricity or running water and little food. To get water she states that she had to crawl in a ditch alongside a road to a spring in order to evade Muslim snipers.[11]
Later, in 1978, Gabriel says a man warned her family of an impending attack on Christians by militias. She says that her life was saved that night when Israelis invaded Lebanon in Operation Litani. Later, when her mother was seriously injured and was taken to an Israeli hospital, Gabriel noted the humanity of the Israelis in contrast to the propaganda against the Jews she says she saw as a child.[12]
After graduating from high school, Gabriel completed a one-year business administration course at a YWCA in 1984.[15]
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Her critics:
- Stephen Lee, the publicist at St. Martins Press for Gabriel’s second book, called her views "extreme".[10] Gabriel said she gives voice to "what many in America are thinking but afraid to say out loud, for fear of being labeled a racist, bigot,Islamophobic, or intolerant."[9]
- Critics of Gabriel complain that her biographical account is riddled with factual inaccuracies. While she claims that she lived for seven years in a bomb shelter, her former neighbors in Marjayoun recall that her family, like others in the village, might have spent a few nights in their shelter or basement at times, but that they otherwise lived relatively normally.[13] Gabriel, however, says that her home was destroyed by a shell in a militant attack, and that the bomb shelter was all that remained.[14]
- An article in an Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram Weekly by Hezbollah apologist Franklin Lamb accused Gabriel of at some point erroneously telling audiences that Hezbollah, which was formed in 1982, was the group that terrorized her family for the seven years between 1975 and 1982.[13] However, he did not identify the time or place in which she allegedly made this claim.
See also
- Criticism of Islam
- Radical Islam
- American exceptionalism
- Judeo-Christian values
- Wafa Sultan
- Walid Shoebat
- Nonie Darwish
- Robert Spencer
- Walid Phares
- Pamela Geller
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0312358385...Brigitte Gabriel - 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 288 pages
My only comfort was knowing that in case of any medical need we could turn to Israel, which was our only lifeline. Israel had opened its hospitals free of charge ...
My only comfort was knowing that in case of any medical need we could turn to Israel, which was our only lifeline. Israel had opened its hospitals free of charge ...
CJUI Christians and Jews United For Israel
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Lamb quotes the Prophet, defends Arabs and Muslims against bigotry
Lost from Lebanon
The case of Brigitte Gabriel, anti-Muslim bigot and pro-Israel apologist, highlights the indignity of those that celebrate military aggression against ordinary civilians, writesFranklin Lamb*
"The difference, my dear Christian friends, between Israel and the Arab world is quite simply the difference between civilisation and barbarism. It's the difference between good and evil and this is what we're witnessing in the Arab and Islamic world. I am angry. They have no soul! They are dead set on killing and destruction. And in the name of something they call 'Allah', which is very different from the God we believe in, because our God is the God of love." -- Brigitte Gabriel , speaking at John Hagee's Christians United for Israel Convention, 27 July 2007
[Lamb quotes the prophet]
"A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry." -- the Prophet Mohamed, peace be upon him
Marjayoun has become notorious recently, in some circles, not just for decades of Israeli crimes, but also as the base from whence Miss Brigitte Gabriel, a local woman, appeared and launched a virulent strain of Islamophobia. Joining with the US- Israel lobby, she has been organising perhaps the most vicious hate campaign against Islam, Arabs and Muslims ever witnessed in America....
One can forget about Israel's brutal military occupation of Palestine, the Bush administration's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and its threatening of much of the world. Brigitte sees a jihadist campaign against her adopted country going back to the very day America was founded. While Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and George Washington and James Madison considered the Barbary pirates, who had operated for centuries along the coasts of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, "nothing but petty tyrants" and "nests of banditti", Brigitte knows better.In her view, the founding fathers were duped because the Muslim pirates were in fact serious jihadists using a promise in the Quran of paradise and virgins if they warred against infidels, and so they became pirates...
Her message of hate, ridicule, and incitement to action against Islam is akin to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, and constitutes egregious and contemptible hate speech. Her rants are fundamentally un-American, un-Lebanese, and un-Christian. Her campaign should be vigorously rejected by all people of goodwill, including those seeking explanations and solutions for the consequences of catastrophic Bush administration Middle East policy, which has caused so much death, destruction and desperation across the region.* The writer is director of Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace, Washington, DC-Beirut, and is senior fellow at the Institute for Middle East Policy Dialogue. A version of this article was first published on PalestineChronicle.com.
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