3 Things About Islam

John, This is a first hand account supporting your post. At some point we as a people are going to have to learn to read and be aware of the world outside our comfort zone, synthesize the information we read, and develop informed opinions based on various sources of information. All too often we pick and choose the truths that we adhere to as the ultimate guide to our lives without any basis in fact simply because we are not affected until the real truth knocks at our own door. I enjoyed listening to the information in your link.

Editor's Note - Below are selected excerpts from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC.

Islam Killing Lebanon's
Christians - All Christians Next?
"We are fighting a powerful ideology that is capable
of altering basic human instincts." - Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel
6-22-8
   

We gather here today to share information and knowledge. Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element of intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and intention of the enemy. The West has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of Allah.

I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as the perpetrators shouted, 'Allah Akbar!' My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I learned the meaning of the word 'infidel.'

I had a crash course in survival. Not in the Girl Scouts, but in a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness, freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At the age of 13, dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends--killed by Muslims. We were not Americans living in New York , or Britons in London . We were Arab Christians living in Lebanon.

As a victim of Islamic terror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12, 2001, and asking themselves 'Why do they hate us?'

The psychoanalyst experts were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend the Muslim World. But if America and the West were paying attention to the Middle East they would not have had to ask the question. Simply put, they hate us because we are defined in their eyes by one simple word: 'infidels.'

Under the banner of Islam 'la, ilaha illa Allah, muhammad rasoulu Allah,' (None is god except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) they murdered Jewish children in Israel , massacred Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews from Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price then. Now infidels worldwide are paying the price for indifference and shortsightedness.

Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn't buy protection. It earns one disrespect and loathing in the enemy's eyes. Yet apathy is the weapon by which the West is committing suicide. Political correctness forms the shackles around our ankles, by which Islamists are leading us to our demise.

America and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless they stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam. You hear about Wahabbi and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam. All the other Muslims, supposedly, are wonderful moderates. Closer to the truth are the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed printed by a Danish newspaper. From burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who mock Islam, to warnings that the West be prepared for another holocaust, those pictures have given us a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. News pictures and video of these events represent a canvas of hate decorated by different nationalities who share one common ideology of hate, bigotry and intolerance derived from one source: authentic Islam. An Islam that is awakening from centuries of slumber to re-ignite its wrath against the infidel and dominate the world. An Islam which has declared 'Intifada' on the West.


America and the West can no longer afford to lay in their lazy state of overweight ignorance. The consequences of this mental disease are starting to attack the body, and if they don't take the necessary steps now to control it, death will be knocking soon.

If you want to understand the nature of the enemy we face, visualize a tapestry of snakes. They slither and they hiss, and they would eat each other alive, but they will unite in a hideous mass to achieve their common goal of imposing Islam on the world.

This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering basic human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a launching pad of death. A perfect example is a recently elected Hamas official in the Palestinian Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her three sons to death and offering the ones who are still alive for the cause. It is an ideology that is capable of offering highly educated individuals such as doctors and lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and stature life in society is ever capable of giving them.

The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death, destruction and damnation down on America and its people. The radical Islamist deeds have been as vile as their words. Since the Iran hostage crisis, more than three thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost unprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands of other citizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of innocent American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of Islam.

America cannot effectively defend itself in this war unless and until the American people understand the nature of the enemy that we face. Even after 9/11 there are those who say that we must engage our terrorist enemies, that we must address their grievances. Their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one prophet. It is the respect we instill in our children towards all religions. It is the equality we grant each other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make the world a better place for all humanity. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we are.

Our mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened our enemy to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of life on our civilization.

If we don't wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take action against the terrorists within it, if we don't believe in ourselves as Americans and in the standards we should hold every patriotic American to, we are going to pay a price for our delusion. For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up and take action.

In the face of a torrent of hateful invective and terrorist murder, America's learning curve since the Iran hostage crisis is so shallow that it is almost flat. The longer we lay supine, the more difficult it will be to stand erect. .

Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. She's the former news anchor of World News for Middle East television and the founder of AmericanCongressforTruth.com

More bio info at:
http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/BrigitteGabriel.php

Complete article is at
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19016

the power of brainwashing, they just dont know any better, when they're eyes pop open thats the day that the hate teaching begins

a trend began way back a few years ago to become recognised, walk in somewhere with an automatic and start firing...never heard of that 25 years ago and i think that is a result of the media outlets...we in a way are also brainwashed.
another good example is the proposed Mosque by the wtc, its simply a community center for many different religions its not a place of pray, obviously i have no care for a Mosque or the Islam religion, but is being reported that way.
you turn on that tv to catch up on the latest to keep you glued and form opinions generated from the right or from the left, a guy like Ted Turner is not going to allow opposite views to be broadcasted thru one of his outlets. we are blasted with this stuff and the mind tends to believe in repetition.
I recently had the chance to speak with a marine, nice quiet kid who decided to join up, he worked for me and has orders to go to afghanistan, I asked why you are going and his reply was for our freedom. I completely dig that but last time i checked we were a free country, he is really gung ho about taking another life, taught that in any dis-regard to religion, like killing a deer it will stain you for the rest of your life and unlike the target range, these guy's shoot back...im an American thru and thru but what i took from the conversation was complete and utter brainwashing done by our government. im not anti government but have a pretty good feeling on why things are the way they are and have accepted it.

Yes, your Marine employee jumping on a grenade for his "brothers".

My son enlisted in the Army National Guard just prior to the 9-11 murders. Prior to enlisting he watched the movie Full Metal Jacket many times thinking that was what the military was about. He was sent to Ft. Knox Kentucky for basic and then trained as a crewman on the M1-A1 Abrams tank. We listened to him many times speak of how advanced the tank was and how safe he would be inside the ballistic plating. When I asked him about the depleted uranium shells which penetrate the shell and then explode inside he decided I was full of crap. Surely the Army would not lie to him. I am glad he went in but I am also glad he did his time and got out before the buildup for Desert Storm. Brainwashing goes a terribly long way in young impressionable males. I understand how team building works and I also understand that we have and continue to send very brave sons and daughters to war. The trauma those men and women return with is not worth the politicians who made the decisions.

Seacamper I admire your strength and patriotic attitude. I notice you did not list your age but I would guess you are probably on the front side of 30. You sound a lot like my son at that age. We as a nation entered Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein of his weapons of mass destruction. There were none. It was an excuse to cast a long shadow on an entire country because we as a nation believed we had to respond to the horror that was committed on us. Have you ever swatted a wasp nest or a hornets nest and just stood there waiting to see what would happen? That is the dilemma I see the US in. We swatted the nest then got mad when we got stung and continue to wonder why they are stinging us. We did not anticipate the regional countries like Pakistan, Iran, Russia, and Afganistan joining in. Hopefully with the pullout in Iraq, still leaving 50,000 troops there for many years, and a quick exit from Afganistan no more of our brave citizens will die. Try to think about your life before this war and now of what we gained by our participation there and I am willing to bet you come up empty.

eric lavine wrote: sea camp i too would pull a kid from a burning fire and if it was the choice that i died, so be it, that comes from my morals...would i if drafted jump on a grenade to save my buddies life, yes. the point i was making is i knew this kid, docile, gentle, wouldnt harm a fly and he came back from basics a lean mean fighting machine, nobody thinks about the damages casued after the fact of the kids lifes of what they were put there to do, the mental strain caused, post traumatic stress...it was merely an observation and to tell you the truth when my son comes to me one day as a man and tells me i want to join up, i will strongly try to guide him in another direction....but it will be his choice and i will respect that

Hey Eric,
I do see your point. I have 2 sons, 10 and 8 and honestly, with the course our country currently took under this new administration, I am steering my kids away from the military, and this is after 3 generations of career military. The military, the Marines in particular, have to work from a basis, and that basis is their people. The boot camps have to bring all their people to that standard basis. My dealings with the Marines was always one of respect because I could always count on that basis (not that the Air Force was bad, its just the Marines training and commitment was better) Like I said, I am 50 so both my Father and 1/3 of my career was committed to the Cold War. Stopping Communism. The last 1/2 was commited affairs in Muslim countries (think Libya,Somalia,Iraq,A'stan, and the Islamic complexities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The BASIS of my career was the Constitution. That has changed with our current administration as the Constitution seems to be toilet paper for Obama. I do not want my kids defending a country without a defined BASIS. Having said that, if they still want to join, its their "journey". PS, I still want free transmission advice even if you get mad at my political views.
Tom

Hey Rman,
I tip my hat to you, because your service was much tougher than mine. I was a coddled pilot and had the "long view" of things and I brought the boys back in litters after you patched them up or in coffins. We do seem to be in agreement and mostly because age makes you realize there is no "right answer". In reference to the "loyalties battle" we had with the Soviets, I just do not think our nation/freedom would have survived Communism without the Cold War, and the "loyalties battle" (including A'stan and Saddam/Iraq)was part of that war. To go back to the late 50's and early 60's what could we have done to stop the spread of Soviet Communism, especially when they were spreading it with tanks? Again, we drive ski boats now, and pretty much we can volunteer our time to organizations we believe in and vote. Thats how we change things. Oh, we can also pray! Honestly, I just come here to find out about CC's. The world is pretty much going to get along without my opinion, but when asked, I do give it.

alot of my opinions are based on one on one's, we pull alot of vehicles from the VA here in Brecksville Ohio, im exposed to these guy's from Iraq, afg, Vietnam, so i possibly see the darkside of the military and the effects and end results...and many times the story is completely different than what we see on mainstream TV. the ugly side of war is rarely broadcasted on TV, I never believed the WMD for one minute because if that was true we would be lining up on North Korea's border because i'll tell what, they are a far more threat than the towel heads of Iraq.
we have SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED nuclear warheads as defense, so you have to have some big balls to swat our beehive. i dont think the need for troops on the ground is at all necessary anymore, we plucked out Khadafys family, never hear from him anymore, plopped Noriega, plopped out Sadaam and his boys ....and i really think because of Saudi ties, Bin Laden is a no toucher

Subject: FW: Fw: DON'T FORGET NEXT SATURDAY!

WALK NAKED IN AMERICA DAY
Don't forget to mark your calendars.
As you may already know, it is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked and if he does, he must commit suicide. So next Saturday at 1 PM Eastern Time, all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists.

Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort.


All patriotic men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their houses to demonstrate their support for the women and to prove that they are not Muslim terrorist sympathizers.
Since Islam also does not approve of alcohol, a cold 6-pack at your side is further proof of your patriotism.

The American government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.

God bless America


P.S.. It
is your patriotic duty to inform others. If you don't send this to at least 1 person, you're a terrorist-sympathizing, lily-livered coward and are possibly aiding and abetting terrorists.

P.S.S. -- I will be doing my patriotic duty by keeping my clothes on.
You're welcome! :)