Brigitte Gabriel

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Brigitte Gabriel, 2016

Brigitte Gabriel (* October 21, 1964 in Marjayoun as Hanan Qahwaji ; Arabic حنان قهوجي; Pseudonym: Nour Seman) is a Lebanese-American journalist, author and founder of two organizations ( American Congress of Truth and ACT! For America ), who has become known as a critic of Islam . Today she lives in Virginia Beach , Virginia.

Life

Brigitte Gabriel was born in the Lebanese district of Marjoyoun as the only child of a Syrian-Maronite couple. She recalls that during the Lebanese Civil War, Islamic militants launched an attack on a Lebanese military base near her family home and eventually destroyed it. Gabriel, who was ten years old at the time, was injured by a shrapnel bullet in an armed attack . She says that she and her parents were forced to live underground for seven years and that all they were left with was a 2.4 × 3 m air raid shelter with just a small kerosene heater , no plumbing, no electricity, and no running Water and very little to eat. She also claims that to fetch water she had to crawl through a roadside ditch to protect herself from Muslim snipers .

In the spring of 1978, a bomb explosion caused her and her parents to be locked in an animal shelter for two days. They were eventually saved by three Christian militia fighters. One of their liberators was later killed by a land mine .

Gabriel writes that in 1978 a stranger warned her family of an impending attack by Islamic militias on all Christians . Her life was saved when the Israeli army invaded Lebanon as part of Operation Litani . Later, when her mother was rushed to an Israeli hospital, seriously injured, Gabriel was surprised at the humanity shown by the Israelis, which contrasted with the constant propaganda against Jews that she was exposed to in her childhood. She is quoted with her experiences as follows:

“I was amazed that the Israelis were providing medical care to the Palestinian and Muslim armed men ... These Palestinians and Muslims were sworn, deadly enemies devoted to the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of Jews. Yet Israeli doctors and nurses worked feverishly to save their lives. Each patient was treated solely according to the type of injury. The doctor treated my mother before treating an Israeli soldier who was lying next to her because her injury was more severe than his. The Israelis saw no religion, political affiliation or nationality. They only saw people in need and they helped. "

- Brigitte Gabriel

Career

School career

After graduating from high school, Gabriel completed a year-long business administration course at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in 1984 .

Career as a journalist

Under her pseudonym "Nour Seman," Gabriel served as a news presenter for World News , an Arabic-language late-night news program on Middle East Television , then operated by Pat Robertson's Christian broadcast network to promote his politically conservative Pentecostal faith in the Middle East . Broadcast to Israel, Egypt , Syria , Jordan and Lebanon, Gabriel reported on the Israeli withdrawal from central Lebanon, from the Israeli security zone (occupied southern Lebanon) and from the Palestinian uprising areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . She eventually moved to Israel before emigrating to the United States in 1989.

ACT! for America

Your organization ACT! for America , as stated by the New York Times : “The organization can be divided into three rather religious and ideological currents in American politics: Evangelical Christian Conservatives, tough defenders of Israel (both Jews and Christians), and Tea Party Republicans ". The Washington Post , according to the organization "as, first success' to the campaign, an Islamic school in 2008 gave Minnesota to close."

Donald Trump

In February 2017, she said she was available for a "national security discussion" at the White House . In March 2017, she attended a working meeting at the White House.

Positions

Criticism of Islam

In 2009 Gabriel rated Islam as “promoting violence and intolerance” and that “moderate Muslims would have to organize and engage the enlightened, educated and westernized Muslims in the community in order to start a dialogue that would discuss the possibility of reform in Islam, similar to that Christianity and Judaism have been reformed. ”For them there is a“ disease called Islamic fascism ”which pervades the Muslim world and in which the“ extreme is the mainstream ”. In June 2014, Gabriel said that "the radicals are estimated to be between 15 and 25 percent" worldwide. In an interview with Australian Jewish News , she said that “a practicing Muslim who upholds the teachings of the Qur'an - which is not so simple - a practicing Muslim who goes to the mosque every Friday prays five times a day believes that the Koran is the word of God and believes that Mohammed is the perfect man ... “be a radical Muslim.

Middle East conflict

In a speech sponsored by the UN Permanent Mission of Palau and the Aja Eze Foundation, Gabriel said that she viewed Israel as the vanguard in the world 's fight against Islamist terrorism and equated with Israel’s fight against Hamas and Hezbollah and with that Fight of the world against the Islamic State . Regarding the two-state solution , Gabriel concludes: “Forcing Israel to accept a two-state solution will not work unless the Palestinians are first forced to give up their actions to remove hatred from their school books to teach their people tolerance and to proclaim the acceptance of Israel and Jews as neighbors. "

Works

• Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America (2008)
• They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (2008)

Web links

• "The terrorist next door" ( Spiegel online via Brigitte Gabriel, September 12, 2011)
• Brigitte Gabriel answers a question from a young Muslim woman , Youtube, October 29, 2015
• Literature by and about Brigitte Gabriel in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Gabriel, Greg Krentzman, Moti Kahana, Leo Melamed Special Temple Of The Arts Yom Kippur Guests . In: BH Courier . October 7, 2016 ( bhcourier.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Laurie Goodstein: Brigitte Gabriel Draws Crowds in US With Anti-Islam Message . In: The New York Times . March 7, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
3. ↑ ^{a b} An inside ally . In: The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com . ( jpost.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
4. ↑ YouTube. Retrieved September 17, 2017 . 
5. ↑ YouTube. Retrieved September 17, 2017 . 
6. ↑ "I was amazed did the Israelis were providing medical treatment to Palestinian and Muslim gunmen ... These Palestinians and Muslims were sworn, mortal enemies, dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of Jews. Yet, Israeli doctors and nurses worked feverishly to save their lives. Each patient was treated solely according to the nature of his or her injury. The doctor treated my mother before he treated an Israeli soldier lying next to her because her injury was more severe than his. The Israelis did not see religion, political affiliation, or nationality. They saw only people in need, and they helped. “ Livia Bitton-Jackson: Brigitte Gabriel: A Remarkable Fighter For Israel | The Jewish Press | Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson | 12 Adar 5775 - March 2, 2015 | JewishPress.com. Retrieved September 17, 2017 (American English). 
7. ^ Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | Lost from Lebanon. (No longer available online.) August 6, 2009, archived from the original on August 6, 2009 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Abigail House Lohner: How a series of fringe anti-Muslim conspiracy theories went mainstream - via Donald Trump . In: Washington Post . November 5, 2016, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
9. ↑ Peter Beinart: America's Most Prominent Anti-Muslim Activist Is Welcome at the White House . In: The Atlantic . ( theatlantic.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
10. ^ Lois Beckett: Leader of group widely identified as anti-Muslim meets with White House . In: The Guardian . March 22, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
11. ↑ Despite Earlier Denials, The White House Now Says An Anti-Muslim Leader Had A Meeting There . In: BuzzFeed . ( buzzfeed.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
12. ^ FrontPageMagazine.com . Symposium: Homegrown Jihadis. FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2009. Symposium held in January 2009 (only available as a Google cache document. Retrieved there on 19 Dec. 2017)
13. ↑ Joby Warrick, Abigail Hauslohner: Trump's security picks deepen Muslim worries about an anti-Islamic White House . In: Washington Post . November 18, 2016, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
14. ↑ Alexander LaCasse: How many Muslim extremists are there? Just the facts, please. In: Christian Science Monitor . January 13, 2015, ISSN  0882-7729 ( csmonitor.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
15. ^ The world according to Brigitte Gabriel (June 6, 2007). (No longer available online.) September 7, 2007, archived from the original on September 7, 2007 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.