After reading the New York times article I have provided the link for, my first reaction, I need to google this woman, after some more research into the matter, my second reaction was "Is this real life?" I cannot believe what I am reading about This women is dangerous, she needs to simmer down. She should go back to where there isn't such a large base of recently scarred, scared and for the most part politically uneducated, she can propagandize into her own extremist views; the last thing the US national security and counter-terrorist operations needs is a hate-inspiring witch hunt for "jihadists" and 'Islamic Radicals' in the US. If she is doing anything, it is merely stirring up trouble and making more trouble with anti-American groups by encouraging intolerance and cornering people into wanting to fight back. She speaks of political correctness being a cancer in the national government, is that another way of saying decency, respect and tolerance are a cancer?
I have invited Ms. Briggitte Gabriel to an educational discussion/debate via email, as I would love to be provided the opportunity to allow a 23 year old college student such as myself to make a fool of her, simply by arguing with fact and figures rather than with feelings and revenge based conviction. I highly doubt I will even receive a response from the staffers at ACT let alone an RSVP to that invite. Since I have learned of this 'Islamic expert' or 'terrorism' expert, I have found irony in one lurking fact: I cannot find a single piece of information on this woman's credentials as a so-called expert. I cannot locate a single document with any evidence of any post-secondary education, let alone anything that could even MAYBE qualify her to be an expert in ANYTHING. I invite anyone reading this to help me uncover her expertise training or education.
Note: in regards to the ACT! For America show, every single episode begins with the same sympathy inducing story, turning the political crisis that Gabrielle lived through in Lebanon, into a terror siege and raid by Islamists. I am not in any way trying to down play the role of religious conviction in the tragic and unfortunate events this woman lived through, and in no way do I mean to undermine real and factual links between specific terrorists and Islam. To use a childhood experience in your tote bag as the necessary requirement to witch hunt Islamic however, i am going to argue that such accusations and anti-tolerance promoting ideology is deserving of a far more legitimate platform as her expertise are applied today. A.k.a. this is probably the very last thing to do in order to promote national security.
The first statement of these episodes is a cryptic statement that flashes against a black screen with the sound of gunshots in the background: "those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it." Well, Ms. Gabrielle, I do remember reading something about another guy who chose a religious ethnicity to pin as the enemy, his name was Adolf Hitler. Talk about repeating history, unfortunately, the next time around, there will be no survival stories.
""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." – New York Times
Then!!! As if she CAN justify anything she says as being a matter of national security rather than the disgusting display of over-simplifying and discrimination and intolerance that it is, they plan on attempting to humiliate Muslims, and anyone with a right head on their shoulders, this upcoming September.
"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." –New York Times
Finally, we really need to step up and expose this movement for being radical and mis-directed.
""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." –New York Times
Honestly, to even listen to this woman speak is so irritating and it just makes me wonder if I should consider her book the next "Mein Kampf." I know that seems rather radical on my end to suggest, but I don't understand where anyone in their RIGHT mind is coming from trying to manifest an enemy based on intolerance.
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I feel like she is just using what all demagogues do rile up the masses using extreme and misleading issues, in the wrong hands like hers expressing her thoughts is not only racsist but extremly dangerous.
If Ms. Briggitte had done her research she would realize that the "war torn Lebanon" was yet another country that the U.S decided to intervene in order to "protect the regime from international "communism." This excuse used throughout Latin America proved to be a cover up for U.S interest in this country. This was the authorization of Operation Blue Bat in 1958. The goal of the operation was to bolster the pro Wester Lebanese government against threats from Syria and Egypt. The only reason why tensions rose with Egypt were because of the pro western President Camille Chamoun who was likely an American puppet who would not break diplomatic relations during the Suez Crisis which angered the Egyptian President. Lebanese Muslims only wanted to join Egypt and Syria in the United Arab Republic rather than aligning with the other side which was a threat to Arab nationalism and sovereignty. The Christians on the side of Chamoun wanted to stay with Western powers. This was the cause of the Muslim rebellion. Again in reaction to U.S intervention, historically we can identify the problems we are facing today. Islamic fundamentalists are the way they are not because they have lived a life full of fairness and prosperity, but because they have been the victims of U.S imperialism.
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