Phyrfight Intel

By Brigitte Gabriel. Excerpted from Brigitte Gabriel’s speech delivered
at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC Saturday February 18, 2006

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 rebel drinking my blood to survive as the perpetrators
shouted Allah Akbar. My only crime was that I was a Christian living in
a Christian town. I learned at 10 years old the meaning of the word
“infidel.” I had a crash course in survival not in 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 thirteen I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at
night waiting to be slaughtered and by the age of 20 I had buried most
of my friends who were 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 12th
2001 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? If America and the west were paying attention to the
Middle East they would not have had to even ask the question. Simply
put, they hate me and you because we are defined in their eyes by one
simple word, “infidels.”

Under the banner of Islam “la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad
rasoulu allah,” there is no God but Allah, Muhammad is his prophet,
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 out of Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern
infidels paid the price then and for their indifference and
shortsightedness infidels worldwide are paying the price now.

Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn’t buy
protection, it earns disrespect and loathing in the enemy’s eyes.
Apathy is the weapon by which the west is committing suicide. Political
correctness is 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 are wonderful moderates. I hope the pictures of
the irrational eruption of violence from around the world in reaction
to the cartoons of Mohammed from burning embassies, to calls to butcher
those who mock Islam, or to warnings to to be prepared for the real
holocaust, has given you a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. The
news pictures and video of these events represents 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 human basic
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 Islamists’ 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 it raised its 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 shortsighted
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 American Congress for Truth.com. Brigitte Gabriel is the
author of a forthcoming book on the same subject to be published by St.
Martin’s Press later in 2006.]