By Brigitte Gabriel. Excerpted from Brigitte Gabriel’s speech delivered
\nat the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC Saturday February 18, 2006<\/p>\n
We gather here today to share information and knowledge.
\nIntelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or
\narmament or disposition of military forces. The most important element
\nof intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and intention of
\nthe enemy. The west has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and
\ndenial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against
\ninnocent victims in the name of Allah.<\/p>\n
I was ten years old when my home exploded around me burying me
\nunder the rebel drinking my blood to survive as the perpetrators
\nshouted Allah Akbar. My only crime was that I was a Christian living in
\na Christian town. I learned at 10 years old the meaning of the word
\n“infidel.” I had a crash course in survival not in girl scouts, but in
\na bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness,
\nfreezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At
\nthe age of thirteen I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at
\nnight waiting to be slaughtered and by the age of 20 I had buried most
\nof my friends who were killed by Muslims.<\/p>\n
We were not Americans living in New York, or Britons in London,
\nwe were Arab Christians living in Lebanon. As a victim of Islamic
\nterror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12th
\n2001 asking themselves “Why do they hate us?” The psychoanalyst experts
\nwere coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend
\nthe Muslim World? If America and the west were paying attention to the
\nMiddle East they would not have had to even ask the question. Simply
\nput, they hate me and you because we are defined in their eyes by one
\nsimple word, “infidels.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Under the banner of Islam “la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad
\nrasoulu allah,” there is no God but Allah, Muhammad is his prophet,
\nthey murdered Jewish children in Israel, massacred Christians in
\nLebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Hindus in India,
\nand expelled almost 900,000 Jews out of Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern
\ninfidels paid the price then and for their indifference and
\nshortsightedness infidels worldwide are paying the price now.<\/p>\n
Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn’t buy
\nprotection, it earns disrespect and loathing in the enemy’s eyes.
\nApathy is the weapon by which the west is committing suicide. Political
\ncorrectness is the shackles around our ankles by which Islamists are
\nleading us to our demise. America and the West are doomed to failure in
\nthis war unless they stand up and identify the real enemy. Islam. You
\nhear about Wahabbi and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam.
\nAll the other Muslims are wonderful moderates. I hope the pictures of
\nthe irrational eruption of violence from around the world in reaction
\nto the cartoons of Mohammed from burning embassies, to calls to butcher
\nthose who mock Islam, or to warnings to to be prepared for the real
\nholocaust, has given you a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. The
\nnews pictures and video of these events represents a canvas of hate
\ndecorated by different nationalities who share one common ideology of
\nhate, bigotry and intolerance derived from one source.<\/p>\n
Authentic Islam. An Islam that is awakening from centuries of
\nslumber to re-ignite its wrath against the infidel and dominate the
\nworld. An Islam which has declared “Intifada” on the West. America and
\nthe west can no longer afford to lay in their lazy state of overweight
\nignorance. The consequences of this mental disease are starting to
\nattack the body and if they don’t take the necessary steps now to
\ncontrol it, death will be knocking soon. If you want to understand the
\nnature of the enemy we face, visualize a tapestry of snakes. They
\nslither and they hiss, and they would eat each other alive, but they
\nwill unite in a hideous mass to achieve their common goal of imposing
\nIslam on the world.<\/p>\n
This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are
\nfighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering human basic
\ninstincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a launching pad of
\ndeath. A perfect example is a recently elected Hamas official in the
\nPalestinian Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her
\nthree sons to death and offering the ones who are still alive for the
\ncause. It is an ideology that is capable of offering highly educated
\nindividuals such as doctors, and lawyers far more joy in attaining
\ndeath than any respect and stature, life in society is ever capable of
\ngiving them.<\/p>\n
The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic
\nhatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring with
\nshrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death, destruction and
\ndamnation down on America and its people. The radical Islamists’ deeds
\nhave been as vile as their words. Since the Iran Hostage crisis, more
\nthan three thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost
\nunprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands of other
\ncitizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into
\nhuman bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of
\ntheir victims. This intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of
\ninnocent American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of
\nIslam. America cannot effectively defend itself in this war unless and
\nuntil the American people understand the nature of the enemy that we
\nface.<\/p>\n
Even after 9\/11 there are those who say that we must “engage”
\nour terrorist enemies, that we must “address their grievances”. Their
\ngrievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of
\nspeech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law
\ncomes from the voices of many not that of just one prophet. It is the
\nrespect we instill in our children towards all religions. It is the
\nequality we grant each other as human beings sharing a planet and
\nstriving to make the world a better place for all humanity. Their
\ngrievance is the kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice
\nwe practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy.
\nTheir grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we are.<\/p>\n
Our mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of
\nbigotry and hatred wherever it raised its ugly head in the last 30
\nyears, has empowered and strengthened our enemy to launch a full scale
\nattack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their
\nvalues and way of life on our civilization.<\/p>\n
If we don’t wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take
\naction against the terrorists within it, if we don’t believe in
\nourselves as Americans and in the standards we should hold every
\npatriotic American to, we are going to pay a price for our shortsighted
\ndelusion.<\/p>\n
For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up
\nand take action. In the face of a torrent of hateful invective and
\nterrorist murder, America’s learning curve since the Iran hostage
\ncrisis is so shallow that it is almost flat. The longer we lay supine,
\nthe more difficult it will be to stand erect.<\/p>\n
[Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict and
\nlectures nationally and internationally on the subject. She’s the
\nformer news anchor of World News for Middle East television and the
\nfounder of American Congress for Truth.com. Brigitte Gabriel is the
\nauthor of a forthcoming book on the same subject to be published by St.
\nMartin’s Press later in 2006.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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