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.
Gabriel says that she and her parents were forced to live in a 8x10 bomb shelter underground for several years with no heat, running water and little food. To get water she had to crawl underground to a spring in a ditch. Before they left they said prayers, because they did not know if they would come back alive.
Later, in 1978, a man 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 became ill and was taken to an Israeli hospital where Brigitte noted the humanity of the Israelis in contrast to the propaganda she had viewed as a child. [3]
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.Front page mag article on Brigitte Gabriel She immigrated to the United States in 1985. 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 Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.
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 supporting terrorism.[1]
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. [2]
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.[3]
Quotes
"The difference, my friends, between Israel and the Arab world is the difference between civilization and barbarism. It's the difference between good and evil [applause].... this is what we're witnessing in the Arabic world, They have no SOUL !, they are dead set on killing and destruction. And in the name of something they call "Allah" which is very different from the God we believe....[applause] because our God is the God of love." - Bridgette Gabriel, CUFI 2007 [4]
Bibliography
- Because They Hate 2006 ISBN 0-312-35837-7
Articles and speeches
- Appeasement Never Works
- Because They Hate
- CBS Infinity Radio Uses 'Emotions' to Stifle Truth of Anti-Terror Conference
- Canada’s Unholy Alliance
- Exclusive: Al-Qaeda Decapitated in Iraq
- FrontpageMag articles by Brigitte Gabriel
- Freedom's Promise
- Family Security Matters
- I Believed the Lies about Israel
- Muslims Muzzling Memphis
- Speech delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out
- Speech at Columbia University : Environments of Hate: Indoctrination in the Arab World and Propaganda Advocacy in Americas University Classrooms
- Speech excerpts delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC
- Thank You Israel
- What the Arab World Thinks
Interviews and TV appearances
- Phyllis Chesler, "A Survivor of Palestinian Tyranny," FrontPageMag.com (phyllis-chesler.com), October 13, 2004.
- Jamie Glazov, "Islam’s Torture of Lebanon," FrontPageMag.com, August 11, 2005. Interview with Gabriel.
- Transcript: "Crisis in the Middle East; Refugees Flood to Cyprus; Nashrallah's Popularity Rising," CNN American Morning, July 19, 2006.
- Jerry Gordon, "Listen to Brigitte Gabriel and Jerry Gordon of ACT," Israpundit, July 30, 2006.
- "The Atlas Interview: Brigitte Gabriel," Atlas Shrugs, July 31, 2006.
- "Watch Brigitte Gabriel on FoxNews Cashin’ In," Israpundit, August 4, 2006.
- "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."
References
External links
- American Congress For Truth website
- Presentation to the Heritage Foundation
- Brigitte Gabriel's article about her lecture in Memphis: Muslims Muzzling Memphis
- A response to Gabriel's account of the Memphis lecture incident
Video
- Gabriel video presentation to Heritage Foundation
- Brigitte Gabriel's Interview - wmv file
- Brigitte Gabriel video interview (169mb .wmv)
See also
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