Brigitte Gabriel

Brigitte Gabriel (born 1965) is a Lebanese American journalist, author and activist. She is the founder of the American Congress For Truth.

Early life

Brigitte Gabriel was born in 1965 in Lebanon to a Maronite Christian family.

Gabriel has said that during the Lebanese Civil War Muslim militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near Gabriel's house and bombed her home, collapsing it. Just ten years old at the time, Brigitte was severely injured and spent 2 1/2 months in a hospital recovering.cn|date=July 2008 The only child of elder parents, their life savings were destroyed in the attack, as their money, their restaurant and their rental rooms all perished in the bombings.

Gabriel reports that she and her parents were forced to live in an 8'x10' bomb shelter underground for seven years with no heat, save for a small kerosene heater, no sanitary systems, no electricity, no running water and little food.(pg. 43; Because They Hate)cn|date=July 2008 To get water she had to crawl in a ditch alongside a road to a spring in order to evade Muslim Snipers (pg 44, ibid). Before they left, they said prayers, because they did not know if they would come back alive.cn|date=July 2008

Later, in 1978, a man she called Chuck, warned Brigitte’s family of an impending attack on Christians by Islamic militias. She claims her life was saved that night when Israelis invaded Lebanon in Operation Litani. Later, her mother was seriously injured and was taken to an Israeli hospital where Brigitte noted the humanity of the Israelis in contrast to the propaganda against the Jews she had endured as a child.cite web
url = http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev092706a.cfm
title = Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
accessdate = 2008-03-09
work = Heritage Live - Events
publisher = The Heritage Foundation
quote = Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. – speaker profile from lecture series]

Career

Brigitte Gabriel was a news anchor for "World News," an evening news program on the South Lebanon Army-affiliated Middle East Television, that was broadcast weeknights throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Lebanon. She immigrated to the United States in 1989.

Gabriel founded the ACT, "American Congress For Truth," in late 2001. She has appeared on news and information TV shows, talk radio and made numerous public speaking engagements. She speaks four languages: Arabic, French, English and Hebrew.

She is featured in the documentary "".

She was interviewed on CNN where she denounced Hezbollah and sided with Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis, thanking Israel for their efforts in her home country.

She has also accused CAIR of failing to condemn extremism, radical Islam, and terrorism, which in her opinion is necessary for the elimination of extremism and the discovery of a more moderate, secular approach to Islam. ["Because They Hate"]

The Official Website of Hasbara Fellowships, IsraelActivism.com, lists Gabriel as one of its Hasbara Fellowship speakers, and arranges speaking engagements for those interested in contacting her. [ [http://www.israelactivism.com/index.php?mode=speakers Hasbara Fellowships Speakers Bureau - IsraelActivism.com ] ]

Gabriel spoke as part of a lecture series organized by Duke University's Jewish community to provide counter-programming after the fourth Palestinian Solidarity Movement student conference was held there in October 2004. She angered many members of the crowd when she referred to Arabs as "barbarians" and Duke's Freeman Center for Jewish Life later apologized for her comments. [ [http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2004/10/22/Columns/How-Not.To.Have.A.Dialogue-777733.shtml How not to have a dialogue - Columns ] ]

Gabriel has written a book entitled, "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America". In the book she responds to the incident at Duke University: "When I gave a speech at Duke University in 2004 condemning suicide bombers and the culture that nurtures them, saying, 'The difference between the Arab world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's dictatorship versus democracy. It's evil versus goodness,' I was criticized and condemned. Duke's Freeman Center for Jewish Life apologized for my comments to the Arabs at Duke. I admit today that some so called "terrorists" do not, I repeat, do not represent the bulk of all Arabs and Muslims. Terrorists supported the killing of innocent civilians but Arabs and Muslims were willing to criticize and condemn terrorism." [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=f8PzwOjR7Z4C&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=duke's+freeman+center+for+jewish+life+brigitte+gabriel&source=web&ots=U1sk-kif2o&sig=Z_rsmISPjxJwfkZvPFcHC_lzOPo#PPA206,M1 Google books] ]

Quotes

"The difference, my friends, between Israel and the Arabic world is the difference between civilization and barbarism. It's the difference between goodness and evil [applause] ....and this is what we're witnessing in the Arabic world, they have no soul! They are dead set on killing and destruction." - Bridgette Gabriel, CUFI 2007cite web and she does realize that Allah means God in Arabic.
url = http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/7/27/22357/2657/Front_Page/McCain_and_Lieberman_Frolic_At_CUFI_s_Festival_Of_Hate
title = McCain and Lieberman Frolic At CUFI's Festival Of Hate
accessdate = 2008-03-09
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last = Wilson
first = Bruce
date = 2007-08-15
work = Talk to Action
quote = Bridgette Gabriel's diatribe, painting a wide swath of humanity as subhuman, would have been well at home in Goebbel's Reich and should have been denounced for the hate speech that is was rather than sanctioned by the presence of national politicians and presidential candidates.]

Books by Brigitte Gabriel

"Because They Hate"

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In her first book Gabriel discusses her experiences as a Maronite Christian living in Lebanon during the civil war between Lebanese Christians and Muslims in the 1970s. She describes the story of her family and her childhood, hiding in a bomb shelter. She details her opinions that her country's inherent multicultural acceptance of all faiths and cultures including the then dominant Lebanese Christians, led to Lebanon's ruin by the continuous attacks from indigenous Muslims and immigrant Palestinians, determined to destroy the infidel (Christian) communities.Fact|date=January 2008

The book made the The New York Times hardcover best seller list.cite web
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"They Must Be Stopped"

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Gabriel's second book is scheduled for release on 19 August 2008.

Articles and speeches

* [http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/iv/081220051 Appeasement Never Works]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21364 Because They Hate]
* [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=9036 CBS Infinity Radio Uses 'Emotions' to Stifle Truth of Anti-Terror Conference]
* [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20046 Canada’s Unholy Alliance]
* [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=129031 Exclusive: Al-Qaeda Decapitated in Iraq]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=2779 FrontpageMag articles by Brigitte Gabriel]
* [http://www.afajournal.org/2005/july/705freedom.asp Freedom's Promise]
* [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=165839 Family Security Matters]
* [http://www.overateacup.com/gabriel1.html I Believed the Lies about Israel]
* [http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5398 Muslims Muzzling Memphis]
* [http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/gabriel.asp Speech delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out]
* [http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/21693 Speech at Columbia University : Environments of Hate: Indoctrination in the Arab World and Propaganda Advocacy in Americas University Classrooms]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=21364 Speech excerpts delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC]
* [http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/2006/July/July16/July16a/july16a.html Thank You Israel]
* [http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarchives/war/time_for_realism_not_political_correctness.php What the Arab World Thinks]

Interviews and TV appearances

*Phyllis Chesler, [http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/articles/survivor-of-palestinian.htm "A Survivor of Palestinian Tyranny,"] "FrontPageMag.com" ("phyllis-chesler.com"), October 13, 2004.
*Jamie Glazov, [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19016 "Islam’s Torture of Lebanon,"] "FrontPageMag.com", August 11, 2005. Interview with Gabriel.
* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/19/ltm.04.html Transcript: "Crisis in the Middle East; Refugees Flood to Cyprus; Nashrallah's Popularity Rising,"] CNN "American Morning", July 19, 2006.
*Jerry Gordon, [http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2052 "Listen to Brigitte Gabriel and Jerry Gordon of ACT,"] "Israpundit", July 30, 2006.
* [http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/07/the_atlas_inter.html "The Atlas Interview: Brigitte Gabriel,"] "Atlas Shrugs", July 31, 2006.
* [http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2150 "Watch Brigitte Gabriel on FoxNews Cashin’ In,"] "Israpundit", August 4, 2006.
* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208298,00.html "Recap of Saturday, August 12,"] Fox News, posted August 14, 2006: Gabriel: "The Russians are using the Arabs and letting them do the dirty work fighting America and Israel."
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin "The Crusader, August 15, 2008"] "The New York Times", August 15, 2008. "This is the way they are taking over the West. They are doing it culturally inch by inch. They don’t need to fire one bullet. Look what is happening in Europe. Do we want to become like “Eurabia”?"

Citations

External links

* [http://www.americancongressfortruth.com American Congress For Truth website]
* [http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev092706a.cfm Presentation to the Heritage Foundation]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21954 Brigitte Gabriel's article about her lecture in Memphis: Muslims Muzzling Memphis]
* [http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=199 A response to Gabriel's account of the Memphis lecture incident]
* [http://www.Takeoverworld.info/mp3/Brigitte_Gabriel_on_Tamar_Yonah_07-16-06.mp3] Brigitte Gabriel speaking with Tamar Yonah, Israeli Journalist (confirms host suggestion to Israel to "bomb, bomb, bomb every inch" of Lebanon 10:00)

Video

* [http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/wm/Lehrman-092706a.wvx "Because They Hate" presentation] to Heritage Foundation
* [http://67.59.155.142/media/Duke_Brigitte_interview.wmv Brigitte Gabriel's Interview - wmv file]
* [http://americancongressfortruth.org/media/Duke_Brigitte_interview.wmv video interview] (169mb .wmv)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBHf2DODBpE Critique of Brigitte Gabriel]

ee also

*Wafa Sultan
*Walid Shoebat
*Nonie Darwish