What’s so hard to understand about this?
By Brigitte Gabriel. Excerpted from Brigitte Gabriel’s speech delivered
at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC Saturday February 18, 2006
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.
I was ten years old when my home exploded around me burying me
under the rebel drinking my blood to survive as the perpetrators
shouted Allah Akbar. My only crime was that I was a Christian living in
a Christian town. I learned at 10 years old the meaning of the word
“infidel.” I had a crash course in survival not in 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 thirteen I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at
night waiting to be slaughtered and by the age of 20 I had buried most
of my friends who were killed by Muslims.
We were not Americans living in New York, or Britons in London,
we were Arab Christians living in Lebanon. As a victim of Islamic
terror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12th
2001 asking themselves “Why do they hate us?” The psychoanalyst experts
were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend
the Muslim World? If America and the west were paying attention to the
Middle East they would not have had to even ask the question. Simply
put, they hate me and you because we are defined in their eyes by one
simple word, “infidels.”