I went with some friends recently to see author Brigitte Gabriel speak to several hundred people at a tea party sponsored event in Massachusetts.
She wrote the book “Because They Hate” in which she puts forth her views of Islam. (Note that I didn’t say “radical Islam”)
She has an interesting perspective, because she grew up in Lebanon, and spent between the ages of 11 and 17 hunkered down in a bombed out cellar. She had the misfortune of being Christian and a time when Hezbollah and other factions decided to flood Lebanon with Muslims. Up until that point, Muslims and Christians have been getting on fairly well, and as I recall, the government was a democracy. At that time (before Hezbollah flooded the country with Muslim immigrants) Lebanon was the only majority Christian democratic country in the Middle East.
They were a majority Christian country, and they freely opened their borders to everyone who wanted to come. LET THAT BE A CAUTIONARY TALE TO US…
Once the demographics of the population shifted, Civil War began. There were roadblocks where Christians were just lined up and shot by Muslim militia. They would just pull them out of the car, to determine who was Christian… And shoot them.
Then, a Muslim artillery shell landed on their house which collapsed on top of them in the cellar. She was injured, and the only place they could get help was Israel, whose border was fairly close.
She was taken to the Israeli border in an ambulance, and they took her right to a hospital. As I recall, she was there for a while recuperating, and Israelis took the time to give her food and clothing… Perfect strangers… And they gave her the same medical care in the hospital that an Israeli would get.
She freely admits that this stunned her. She’d grown up with Arabs, listens all the radio stations, watched all the television stations, and heard continuously (and believed it) that the Israelis and the Jews were subhuman scum, drank the blood of Arab children, and she looked at them the way all the Arabs did.
For her to end up in an Israeli hospital, being treated with generosity and kindness by the people that she had been told were the evilest of the evil was enough to make her view the big picture of what was going on, who was telling the lies, who was doing the killing. And she saw clearly that it was Islam.
She is on what appears to be nearly a one-woman campaign to protect this country from sharia law and all of the education shenanigans and the lobbying activities of the Wahhabi Muslims who are giving huge amounts of money to lots of universities around the United States and Europe to institute “Islamic studies departments”.
She’s a pretty good-looking woman who wears high heels and a short black dress while she rakes Islam over the coals. She had at least one armed guard prominently on the stage within a few feet of her, and mentioned to us that she gets frequent death threats.
I couldn’t have been more impressed with this woman. It takes a lot of gumption to wear those high heels of hers and speak out against Islamic misogynists who would probably do some fairly nasty things if they were ever able to get their hands on her.
What she said was extremely alarming, but not something that those of us who’ve been paying attention didn’t know already (for the most part). She made a comment about Europe that really struck home. She said: “For those of you who want to travel to Europe, you should know that it is no longer your parents Europe.” She talked about one country (possibly France or somewhere in Scandinavia) that had almost 800 “no go zones” in the country that police had to observe.
She said that there were about 250 sharia courts operating officially in England!
She said Europe is lost, it is now “Eurabia”.
She said we still have a little time here, but not much.
I read her book several years ago and found it quite compelling. I am glad to hear she is continuing to warn people.
The death of the west isn’t murder as much as suicide - parallel to the eradicating of Christian morals by the socialists.
I just don’t understand what the left expects to get out of this in the end? It won’t benefit them - they hated Christianity - oh they’re just going to love Islam /s. And where does this leave people like Schummer, Reid, etc? It doesn’t make sense.
800 no go zones. I’m glad I did my traveling before this happened.