Brigitte Gabriel
We have been reporting on “Brigitte Gabriel” and her hate organization ACT! for America since we began our site a few years ago. It seems now people are speaking out more against her extremist hate due to recent flagrant Islamophobic events such as the one in Yorba Linda.
Brigitte Gabriel’s personal story is a crock, what she presents to her ignorant crowds is a crock, she presents a black and white world in which Muslims are the enemies of humanity, Christianity and Civilization.
For more on her read: A Case Study in Sincere Hypocrisy: Brigitte Gabriel
ACT! for America is Better Known as Hate for America!
Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN (New York Times)
FORT WORTH — Brigitte Gabriel bounced to the stage at a Tea Party convention last fall. She greeted the crowd with a loud Texas “Yee-HAW,” then launched into the same gripping personal story she has told in hundreds of churches, synagogues and conference rooms across the United States:
As a child growing up a Maronite Christian in war-torn southern Lebanon in the 1970s, Ms. Gabriel said, she had been left lying injured in rubble after Muslims mercilessly bombed her village. She found refuge in Israel and then moved to the United States, only to find that the Islamic radicals who had terrorized her in Lebanon, she said, were now bent on taking over America.
“America has been infiltrated on all levels by radicals who wish to harm America,” she said. “They have infiltrated us at the C.I.A., at the F.B.I., at the Pentagon, at the State Department. They are being radicalized in radical mosques in our cities and communities within the United States.”
Through her books, media appearances and speeches, and her organization, ACT! for America, Ms. Gabriel has become one of the most visible personalities on a circuit of self-appointed terrorism detectors who warn that Muslims pose an enormous danger within United States borders.
Representative Peter T. King, Republican of Long Island, will conduct hearings Thursday in Washington on a similar theme: that the United States is infiltrated by Muslim radicals. Mr. King was the first guest last month on a new cable television show that Ms. Gabriel co-hosts with Guy Rodgers, the executive director of ACT! and a Republican consultant who helped build the Christian Coalition, once the most potent political organization on the Christian right.
Ms. Gabriel, 46, who uses a pseudonym, casts her organization as a nonpartisan, nonreligious national security group. Yet the organization draws on three rather religious and partisan streams in American politics: evangelical Christian conservatives, hard-line defenders of Israel (both Jews and Christians) and Tea Party Republicans.
She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that it is unrecognizable to those who study or practice the religion. She has found a receptive audience among Americans who are legitimately worried about the spread of terrorism.
But some of those who work in counterterrorism say that speakers like Ms. Gabriel are spreading distortion and fear, and are doing the country a disservice by failing to make distinctions between Muslims who are potentially dangerous and those who are not.
Brian Fishman, a research fellow at both the New America Foundation in Washington, and the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point, said, “When you’ve got folks who are looking for the worst in Islam and are promoting that as the entire religion of 1.5 or 1.6 billion people, then you only empower the real extremists.”
Ms. Gabriel is only one voice in a growing circuit that includes counter-Islam speakers like Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Walid Shoebat. What distinguishes Ms. Gabriel from her counterparts is that she has built a national grass-roots organization in the last three years that has already engaged in dozens of battles over the place of Islam in the United States. ACT! for America claims 155,000 members in 500 chapters across the country. To build her organization, Ms. Gabriel has enlisted Mr. Rodgers, who had worked behind the scenes for the Christian Coalition’s leaders, Ralph Reed and the television evangelist Pat Robertson. (Ms. Gabriel herself was once an anchor for Mr. Robertson’s Christian television network in the Middle East).
As national field director, Mr. Rodgers planted and tended Christian Coalition chapters across the country, and is now using some of the same strategies as executive director of ACT! Among those tactics is creating “nonpartisan voter guides” that rank candidates’ responses and votes on issues important to the group.
Just as with the Christian Coalition’s voter guides, the candidates whose positions most often align with ACT!’s are usually Republicans. Mr. Rodgers previously served as campaign manager for Patrick J. Buchanan’s presidential run in 1996, and as a consultant for John McCain in 2008.
Ms. Gabriel and Mr. Rodgers declined to be interviewed in person or over the telephone, but agreed to respond to questions by e-mail. They permitted interviews with only their national field director and two chapter leaders they selected, though half a dozen other interviews were conducted with chapter leaders before they were told not to talk.
Ms. Gabriel says she is motivated not by fear or hatred of Islam, but by her love for her adopted country.
“I lost Lebanon, my country of birth, to radical Islam,” she wrote. “I do not want to lose my adopted country America.”
She insists that she is singling out only “radical Islam” or Muslim “extremists” — not the vast majority of Muslims or their faith. And yet, in her speeches and her two books, she leaves the opposite impression. She puts it most simply in the 2008 introduction to her first book, “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America.”
“In the Muslim world, extreme is mainstream,” she wrote. She said that there is a “cancer” infecting the world, and said: “The cancer is called Islamofacism. This ideology is coming out of one source: The Koran.”
In what ACT! is calling “Open a Koran” day this September, the group plans to put up 750 tables in front of post offices, libraries, churches and synagogues and hand out leaflets selectively highlighting verses that appear to advocate violence, slavery and subjugation of women.
In the last year, the group played a key role in passing a constitutional amendment in Oklahoma banning the use of Shariah, a body of Islamic law derived from the Koran and from the Muslim prophet Muhammad’s teachings, sayings and acts. Most Muslims draw selectively on its tenets — in the same way that people of other faiths pick and choose from their sacred texts.
But group members and their allies have succeeded in popularizing the notion that American Muslims are just biding their time until they gain the power to revoke the Constitution and impose Shariah law in the United States.
“We can’t let Shariah law take hold,” said Susan Watts, who leads a large chapter in Houston.
ACT! members are challenging high school textbooks and college courses that they deem too sympathetic to Islam. A group leader in Eugene, Ore., signed up to teach a community college course on Islam, but it was canceled when a Muslim group exposed his blog postings denouncing Islam and denying the scope of the Holocaust.
A chapter in Colorado recently featured a guest speaker on “How to minister to Muslims,” and “Conversion success stories.” Mr. Rodgers said in a written response that ACT! does not encourage such activities.
Ms. Gabriel’s approach and her power appear rooted in her childhood trauma in the civil war in southern Lebanon. The war was a chaotic stew in which ever-shifting alliances of clan-based militias made up of Christian, Shiite, Sunni, Palestinian and Druse made war on one other, often with the backing of other countries. But in the rendering Ms. Gabriel shares with her American audiences, it was black and white. As her father explained to her, “The Muslims bombed us because we are Christians. They want us dead because they hate us.” (The refrain became the title of her first book.)
She moved to Israel in her early 20s to work for Middle East Television. Ms. Gabriel often mentions in lectures that she was an anchor for the network, but does not reveal that Middle East Television was then run by Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network to spread his politically conservative, Pentecostal faith in the Middle East.
On air as a reporter, Ms. Gabriel used the name Nour Saman. She married an American co-worker and in 1989 moved to the United States. They started a film and television production company, which says it has produced programs on terrorism for “Good Morning America” and “Primetime.”
She said she uses a pseudonym, voted on by her organization’s board, because she has received death threats.
Ms. Gabriel has given hundreds of lectures, including to the Heritage Foundation and the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. Her salary from two organizations she founded, American Congress for Truth and ACT! for America, was $178,411 in 2009. And the group’s combined income was $1.6 million.
In Fort Worth, Ms. Gabriel spent nearly an hour after her speech signing books and posing for pictures with gushing fans.
“She really opened up my eyes about Islam,” said Natalie Rix Cresson, a composer, clutching a signed copy of Ms. Gabriel’s book. “I didn’t realize it was so infiltrated in the schools, everywhere.”
March 8th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
“Brigitte Gabriel’s personal story is a crock”
Especially the “I had to live in a bomb shelter for 7 years and ate grass to survive” fabrication. It’s sad that some people actually believe her rubbish. Duped morons.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/brigitte-gabriel-spinning-lies-and.html
March 8th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
I can’t help feeling, with all these Islamophobes tied to Israel one way or the other, that it is the Israel-Palestine issue that triggers all this hate. This issue has to be solved.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Can you please give us a disclaimer before showing her ugly face in one of LW’s articles? Thanks.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
She has drawn in a huge crowd and has gone mainstream. We should pass this message on to others via facebook, email, myspace, Mosques, Muslim organizations and be seriously proactive. No more sitting on our butts and just talking about this. This is very scary! Thanks LW for bringing this to our attention again.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
If I wanted to learn about Islam, I would NOT read selected passages from a hate group-I would find an english koran( do they print those?) and try to read it myself. As for the subjugation of women, ancient Christianity is not much better.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
“She really opened up my eyes about Islam,” said Natalie Rix Cresson, a composer, clutching a signed copy of Ms. Gabriel’s book. “I didn’t realize it was so infiltrated in the schools, everywhere.”
This reminds me of the, “I heard a man speak….about the Fatherland” hero-worship of the early Nazi converts.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
“As for the subjugation of women, ancient Christianity is not much better.”
Of course. This is all a smokescreen of theirs anyway. Their own speeches and writings are full of talk about how women should “stay at home”, and how the man is the “head of the house.” Their only real objection to Islam is that they see it as COMPETITION. Likewise, they know that most Americans are not mysoginists, so they are hiding their own teachings by projecting them onto Islam, thereby making Islam the enemy in the eyes of the people while they themselves are beginning to implement those very teachings that they hate Strawman Islam for. It’s a very clever tactic. Fascists use it all the time.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
We should also try to find out where these “Open a Quran” days are happening so we can be there with materials to hand out that counter their lies.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Her real name is Hanan Tudor.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Mindy: I would recommend the Qur’an translation by Prof Muhammad Abdel Haleem, the director of the Centre for Islamic Studies at SOAS. It’s available for download here, and is very easy to read. In my view it’s the best translation currently on the market.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
@ mindy1 Yes, they do print English Korans. They also print Arabic Qu’rans with English translations. There are also millions of websites with the Quran and its more famous English translations. http://www.tanzil.info is one site I recommend.
My point being that, yes I completely agree with you. If people actually spent time learning about Islam straight from the source rather than through a third-person view, it wouldn’t be so bad. But as a nation, we Americans are kind of obsessed with “pundits” and “commentators” on everything, from football to news to religion.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
And by the way, Prof Abdel Haleem also has a companion book, Understanding the Qur’an: Themes and Style, which is well worth reading also. It is also available here.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I agree with khushboo! They have organized themselves very well and with people who produce results. Interesting times in America.
Without casting dusoersions on the USA but the general population are pretty thick and have an insular view of the world. So I’m not amazed that “Cletus and his extended family and pick up truck” believe every word she says.
I’m glad I’m not living in the USA
March 8th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Thanks for the suggestions-now to find the time to read them…
March 8th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Hanan tudor, brigette gabriel, no matter what she calls herself, shes an ugly woman with an ugly soul.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Yikes. What a mug. And I don’t think LW was trying to post an unflattering picture like they do with Geller and Spencer. This is probably at her best.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Damn…my eyes. Brigitte Gabriel is one fugly loon. For a second I thought Loonwatch was going Discovery Channel and reporting on tarsiers.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Due to a few complaints, I request the photo be replaced by something less offensive.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
There might be children reading this site. Did Loonwatch not consider this when they chose the photo for this article?
March 8th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Guys, although I do find the jokes of the image of such a vile person amusing, can we please focus more on her fugly hatred and unamerican activities?
I’ve been somewhat following this hateful woman (in most cases, whenever I was watching tv,she would be on some news show) since I saw her despicable rant about Lebanon on youtube back in 2006. Ever since, she has gotten more and more radicalized and vile that it is apparent we can no longer just talk about this as another poster has stated. As Americans, we have to exposes this woman and others like her for her anti-american stance.
March 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Bro Dawood. Thanks once again for uploading these scholarly resources. Do you happen to have Hamza Yusuf’s “Purification of the Heart” by any chance in pdf format?
Also, have you read the Cambridge Companion to Muhammad(saw)? If so, do you think its worth acquiring?
March 8th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Isn’t she a beauty?
March 8th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
@ Dawood and mindy1- I totally agree about Haleem’s translation. Very easy to read and the footnotes are very helpful.
March 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Her real name is Hanan Tudor, will someone please buy that domain name and expose her?
March 8th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
IbnAbuTalib: Not that I’m aware of, but the CD set is very useful. And as for the Cambridge text, it’s not something I have seen yet, though they usually publish great work.
March 8th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Any thoughts on the “Khalidi” translation of the Quran? I found it easier to read than the others I own…
March 8th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
As my mom would say, a person’s actions reflect on their face.
March 8th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
She’s not well liked by a large segment of Lebanese Christians either (well, at least the non-Maronite ones).
March 8th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
She’ll use the Pakistan-Saudi Mushin-Khan Holy Quran.
Sad to say It’s the most harsh and divisive English Quran out there. I don’t recommend it of all choices. It does dakwah few favors.
She’ll be hurling that version with an Al-Fatiah full of paranthetical Jew-Christian slamming. (context is blurry abrogated by Khan’s hadith interpretation)
Regardless, she has her pumped up 155,000 followers and media dominance, and the divided US Muslims have their 2+ million with our worse than ‘nigger’ ‘muslim’ status.
We need all hands on deck, liberal, conservative, any racial and yes, Shiite too. Even chasing deviants should be bypassed to focus on the massive dajjal effort sinking, breaking, weighing down to suffocate on us.
The US as New Judea is out to mimic test en’ masse what cannot be done in Israel. Radio Rwanda is alive in America today.
Apologies for any offense to any brother ~ Wasalam
March 8th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Dawood, thanks for reminding me about this website. Do you remember the name of that blind Lebanese Shaykh who was brought up as a Quaker? He wrote an awesome book that was mainly a commentary on Surah al-Fatiha, although the last section dealt with the first few verses of Surah Al-Baqara. I have been trying to find it, but I don’t remember his name.
March 8th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Thanks for the links Dawood. Haleem’s translation looks like a wonderful change from Yusuf Ali’s flowery prose. I’m definitely going to buy the book.
March 8th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Isa:
You’re probably thinking of Mahmoud Ayoub. He is Lebanese, blind, and has published books with compilations of Tafsirs for the first two Surahs.
Unfortunately, like so many other Islamic scholars, he has come under attack by Islamophobes.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
I really have to say that comments about someone’s physical apparance seem beneath what this site is doing. It’s really an ad hominium type attack–”Don’t listen to this person, s/he is ugly”–rather than focusing on the ugly words they say. It also seems sophomoric.
That said, I understand the role of humor in argument…but seriously, this is the lowest common denominator, on the same level as fart jokes.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Daniel:
Okay, perhaps I was a little harsh on her. But even you have to admit, she looks a bit like something out of Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI).
March 8th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Thanks, NassirH. That is his name. The book is “The Quran and its Interpreters: Volume One”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791465225/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=087395727X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1T9SFR676CGJNYY5NC2K
I remember picking that out from the library, and was floored the second I began to read it.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Daniel,
I am not referring to her facial features. I am referring to the look. I do think that if you do good deeds, there is a “nur” or light that reflects of your face and eyes which is missing in hers. From her face evil just stares out. I know kind of naive thinking but thats how I feel. I have seen that with Pamela too. If you look at a younger Pamela, she did radiate beauty but now she just radiates evil.
March 9th, 2011 at 12:05 am
this woman is a fake anyone with a little knowledge about the Lebanese civil war will directly know that her stories are full of BS. This woman is nothing but a fake hate monger who is misleading thousands for profit. She should have her Lebanese citizenship renounced.
March 9th, 2011 at 12:44 am
Now didn’t I comment before about not stooping down to resort in attacking someone’s physical features or other ad-hominem attacks? Doesn’t matter if it’s Brigitte Gabriel or Debbie Schlussel or Pam Geller (see a pattern here?)
Informed, well thought out debate is one thing, derogating one’s physical appearance will only bring forth accusations of tu quoque (which, as we all know, have been employed against us at LW and others).
tl;dr, lay off the insults people. It doesn’t make us a professional if we do such things.
March 9th, 2011 at 12:48 am
Also adding my support for Haleem’s translation, the best I have read and the one I carry around with me.
March 9th, 2011 at 4:57 am
Farlowe: It is also a very good text, Khalidi is an excellent academic and has done a lot of good work on Islamic historiography.
Isa: Mahmoud Ayoub is an amazing person, both academically and in his community work. He has published The Qur’an and Its Interpreters up until the end of Surat Al ‘Imran now, which is very useful. I hope he can keep publishing, as it is a long-term but very worthwhile endeavour.
All of these texts go no small way into combating such hatred and intolerance of Muslims and their religion.
March 9th, 2011 at 5:56 am
“I really have to say that comments about someone’s physical apparance seem beneath what this site is doing. It’s really an ad hominium type attack–”Don’t listen to this person, s/he is ugly”–rather than focusing on the ugly words they say. It also seems sophomoric.”
Beneath what this site is doing? This is exactly the kind of thing this site does, using humor. Go look at the about page. The focus is always clearly on what they say, and quite frankly i’m not sure what else can be said about this person that hasn’t already been said. So relax
March 9th, 2011 at 7:25 am
I would normally be against ad hominum attacks, but this woman really has no argument.
How can you debate someone who is completely and utterly ignorant on the subject matter?
Isn’t it ironic how this “Open a Quran” event she’s doing isn’t actually opening a Quran? She’s just showing select passages out of their own context instead of actually giving people authentic copies of the Quran.
March 9th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Dear Loonwatch,
Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to expose the racists and bigots like Brigitte Gabriel, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, David Horowitz, Steven Emerson, etc. One cannot believe the amount of hatred these individuals are distributing to our fellow Americans all to make money from book sales and speaking engagements. If these individuals spent the same amount of time and energy on something productive for society the world would be a much better place.
March 9th, 2011 at 9:35 am
I have to say, I think “Open a Qur’an Day” is a great idea – so long as the intention is to open it to really read it as opposed to reading a few select verses ripped out of their contexts whose meaning is then distorted.
I believe that anyone who really has a “heart for God” will fall in love with it, and find true guidance in the “search for God” and godliness.
Mindy – I probably shouldn’t inundate you by adding other English “interpretations of the meaning” of the Qur’an, but I can’t seem to help myself. I do agree with Dawood and others that the Abdel Haleem is the most ‘readable’ and smooth-flowing modern English version I have seen so far. The first English version I used, though (and still my favorite in certain respects), is that of Muhammad Asad. It can be found online at http://www.altafsir.com/ViewTranslations.asp?Display=yes&SoraNo=1&Ayah=0&toAyah=0&Language=2&LanguageID=1&TranslationBook=7 . To locate an individual Sura (chapter), there’s a ‘box’ on the top right of the page which gives the name of the Sura in Arabic letters, then English, followed by the number of the Sura. On the left side of the box there’s a drop down arrow which you can click to show a list of all of the Suras. Find the one you want and click on it. I like the Muhammad Asad version as much for his enlightening footnotes as for anything else. In the online edition, the notes can be found at the end of each Sura, and are numbered to match the verse number. (In the print edition, the footnote numbers are numbered consecutively, and don’t match the verse numbers for the most part.)
One other English translation I use frequently is Yusuf Ali’s ( http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/SURAI.HTM ). They’re all very helpful, although Abdel Haleem’s is written in a very understandable modern English. If you download any of these (or read them online) and really get interested in the Qur’an, all of these translations can be found fairly easily in print editions at Amazon.com and probably in most major book stores.
March 9th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
It’s amazing how everyone kind of leans towards the translation they were first exposed to.
I enjoy reading the old muhammed marmaduke pickthall translation everytime.
The old English is first class!
March 9th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Ms. Brigitt Gabriel,(her real name is Hanan Tudor),has claimed,and I quote from the article:
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I lost Lebanon,my country of birth,I do not want to lose my adopted country America.
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The above quoted claim of Ms.Gabriel,(or Ms.Tudor),is simply a lie. Reasons:
(1) She is a Maronite Lebanese Christian.
(2) The President of Lebanon,according to the Lebanese Constitution,has to be a Maronite Christian,since Lebanon won its idependence from France,[the colonial power that ruled Lebanon since the end of the First World War till the end of the Second World War],until present time.
(3) The current President is Mr.Sulaiman,the former Chief of Staff of the Lebanese Army and he is a Maronite Christian.
(4) At least one fourth of the members of the Ministers of any goverment that has been formed since Labenese independence has been Maronite Christians.
(5) A large segment of the economic and financial secters in Lebanon has been,especially the tourism and foreign trade secters,been in the hands of the Maronite Christians.
I can go on citing reasons to prove that being a Maronite Christian,Ms.Gabriel,or Ms.Tudor,has not”lost Lebanon,her country of birth”. She can return to it anytime she wants,unless she or her family were agents for Israel in Southern Lebanon,as part of the Lahud Militia which were supported by Israel against the labenese nationals,whether they were Christians,(Maronites and Greek Orthodox),Muslims(Sunnis and Shia’s),and Druses. Agents of Israel are considered treaters in Lebanon. Therefore,the treaters of their country of birth must not be taken seriously,when they claim that they do not want to lose their adopted country! It is a phony claim. Ms.Gabriel or Ms. Tudor is interested in her current yearly income of $178,000 she had never dreamed in her wildest dreams of making in Southern Lebanon or if she stayed in Israel working for Pat Robertson,the right-wing Christian evangelical who called to assassinate a head of state,during George W.Bush administrations. Christian? And he loves Jesus?
It all is connected. All one has to do is just connect the dots to get a clear picture of the hatred and bigotry involved against Islam and Muslims.
That is NOT “Because They(the Muslims)Hate”,as Ms.Gabriel(M.TUDOR)has entitled her shallow book,but “Because She,(Ms.Gabriel=Tudor)Hates”.
March 9th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
I actually attended one of Brigitte Gabriel’s hatefests at a large Christian church (part of a chain) here in Southern California last year. The lead-in to her hour long lecture was a phone call from the notorious Christofascist General Bill Boykin. She said a ton of crazy stuff (‘Muslims are using the public schools to convert our children!’), but the most amusing claim was that belts were invented by Muslims and forced open dhimmis to symbolize their submission. I couldn’t stifle my laughter from that one, which brought me some really dirty looks. Unfortunately, the main auditorium was completely packed (1,000+ people easily), and there were hundreds more listening outside. I thought about printing off a few hundred makeshift flyers (I was thinking “What Brigitte Gabriel Won’t Tell You About Islam” for the title) and handing them out to people, but I chickened out. The sad thing was that this event was supposed to be a 9/11 Memorial; the memorial part lasted all of about 5 minutes.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that BG’s daddy was a Phalangist militia leader. Anyone know if this is true and have a cite for it?
March 10th, 2011 at 7:15 am
“Islam has infiltrated the CIA and FBI”
Ms Gabriels books opened Natalies Cressons eyes to the level of infiltration of US by Islam!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????
I really do not intend to generalise – but is there something in the water in America which prevents all but a select few Americans from thinking for themselves and using their own logic
I am British – and we have xenophobes and Islamophobes here but the people here investigate into the claims made by these rightwing organisations and make their own conclusions
Peace
March 10th, 2011 at 8:20 am
The real Loon is Will Youmans the so-called Iron Sheik. Here’s some information on him. He makes Bridget and Geller look like crazies because he’s crazy, too.
http://kabobfestcharred.blogspot.com/2011/03/kabobfest-founder-and-ikhras-house-pet.html
Thani
March 10th, 2011 at 9:43 am
I hate to say this but she is scary. Can’t Loonwatch get another picture that is less stressful to the eye?
March 10th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Nothing makes a “tolerant” liberal more pissy than a woman speaking out against radical Islam.
March 10th, 2011 at 11:58 am
Sam Seed,
The uglier Loonwatch can present her,and other loons as well,the better I personally like it,inspite of the stress her UGLY FACE brings to my eyes.
Bigots must be presented as ugly as possible,since their hearts,minds and souls are horribly ugly. Remember,Sam,”A Picture is worth a 1000 words”.
Most people have no time to read a 1000 words,but glancing at a picture does not take a minute of their time. What is important from writing the 1000 words or expressing the 1000 words in a picture is the effectiveness of the image left on masses of people: the larger the masses the better.
Cheers……….
March 10th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Didn’t know my speaking outagainst radical anything made tolerant liberals pissy….
March 10th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
It’s best that we ignore him, Lilly, until he can make a decent point –backed up with evidence– and stops spamming articles with random comments.
March 10th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
@Rocky Lore: No more than a Republitard claiming to fight for the rights of Muslim women while denying the fertility rights of women on their own turf? Crying about Shariah law while advocating Biblical Law? Ever notice that irony? Of course not you bloody hypocrite.
March 11th, 2011 at 3:15 am
@Garo,
“The uglier Loonwatch can present her,and other loons as well,the better I personally like it,inspite of the stress her UGLY FACE brings to my eyes.
Bigots must be presented as ugly as possible,since their hearts,minds and souls are horribly ugly. Remember,Sam,”A Picture is worth a 1000 words.”
That is true, it’s just that this picture has been used for quite some time now. Come on Loonwatch, more originality with the pics I’m sure most of us wanna see fresh pics.
March 14th, 2011 at 12:51 am
She should buy some proactive
March 15th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Brigitte Gabriel claims an American Muslim “cannot be a loyal citizen” and that Islam is the “real enemy.” She once told the Australian Jewish News: “Every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim.” She also claimed that “Islamo-fascism is a politically-correct word … it’s the vehicle for Islam … Islam is the problem.”
When asked whether Americans should “resist Muslims who want to seek political office in this nation,” Gabriel said: “Absolutely. If a Muslim who has — who is — a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day — this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.”
Gabriel stated: “America and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless they stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam.”
Along with her stated desire to have Muslims barred from public office, Gabriel has also claimed that Arabs “have no soul” and that Muslims worship “something they call ‘Allah,’ which is very different from the God we believe
March 15th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Dawood thanks for info on Khalidi’s Quran translation. I find it easier for me to read than others but I wasn’t sure if it was a good translation or not.
March 16th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
What would happen if she ever to set foot on Lebanese soil? Hopefully arrested for treason.
May 15th, 2011 at 7:39 pm
If you think what ACT says about Islam is “A Crock”, you haven’t studied Islamic Doctrine or history. Name calling is the refuge of those who have no argument!
Jihad is defined as “War against unbelievers until they submit to the Shari’ah and pay the jizyah and feel themselves subdued” Q9:5, 29, 36. It is NOT a “struggle for inner purity”: the ahadith support for this is da’if. Whereas, the former is by Ijma (scholarly consensus). Remember: the Leftists who supported the Muslims in the Civil War in Lebanon were the first butchered.
May 15th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Please teach me about Islamic Doctrine and history, o wise one.
May 15th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
“the ahadith support for this is da’if. Whereas, the former is by Ijma (scholarly consensus)”
Lol nothing like sprinkling your paragraphs with Arabic words (or the transliteration) to give yourself at least an air of credibility or intelligence Lol i love it! instead of the word “Weak” he writes da’if or instead of “Scholorly Consensus” (well to be fair he added that) but he put in Ijma for good measure Lol. That was a GOTCHA! comment. You cant fool him Danios, hes got your number he knows ARABIC!
December 30th, 2011 at 12:50 am
This is specifically for poster mindy1 who asked is there a copy of the Qu’ran in English: Mindy, there is indeed. The Folio Society (a great international book-club) has recently released a magnificent edition of the Qu’ran, beautifully illustrated with traditional Muslim images, hard-cover, beautifully made and properly bound. From memory I paid about AUS$115 for it. But there are much less expensive editions available. Go to your local Mosque — they will probably give you a copy. Just remember to cover your hair before you enter, take off your shoes, and dress in a respectful manner. The Muslim people (that I’ve known) are a very open, friendly, lovely people and very willing to teach and share their faith and culture with anyone who wants to learn. And they actually won’t try to convert you! But be warned, you might find friends you want to keep for life … and when a Muslim invites you to a party, you won’t need to eat again for three days! They are a beautiful people, much maligned, much misrepresented. It’s true, I don’t know that many, but I’ve met LOTS, and I’ve yet to meet a Muslim I didn’t like, and I’ve never met one who agrees with Shari’ah law as it’s practiced by groups like the Taliban — indeed they’re the first to denounce it – very vocally! – as anti-Muslim, and against everything a good Muslim believes. That said, maybe the fact that I am neither Christian nor Jewish (nor Muslim for that matter) has provided an avenue to that openness with me – I can’t speak to that – but I believe if you treat them with openness and respect, you will receive exactly that; and if you don’t receive it I know exactly what a Muslim would say ~ that the person who didn’t treat you correctly has no right to call himself a Muslim.
And as for the alleged subjugation of women, verse 128 of the Fourth Surah reads: “Men’s souls are naturally inclined to covetousness, but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, Allah is well acquainted with what ye do.” Does that sound misogynist to anyone?
And finally to deltamike: sir, with respect, you are TOTALLY and utterly incorrect — jihad means “holy effort”, nothing more, nothing less, therefore prayer can be ‘jihad’; teaching children the intricacies of the Qu’ran can be; fasting for Ramadan is ‘jihad’ … and so is a holy war, if deemed necessary ~ i.e., when one is attacked by crusading christians who have no right to be in your country, et cetera.