From the Umayyad invasion of Tours in 732 through the ISIS bombing of Paris just a few years ago, the West has faced a lot of violence from the religion of peace. We are joined today by Brigitte Gabriel, author of They Must Be Stopped, Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, to discuss her first hand account growing up in the midst of the Lebanese civil war, and the devastation that that religious ideology has wrought on her own life and those of her family and friends.
00:04:05.020So the West right now is justified when we watch television and we hear ISIS or before ISIS, it was Al-Qaeda issuing press releases saying that they are going to come after the West, that they want to establish a caliphate, that Islam should rule the earth.
00:04:19.400And they are following on their threats and it's about time we in the West start listening to them.
00:04:23.960And I believe in the West, a lot of people, and obviously the polls are showing that people are starting to listen to our enemy and realize that they actually mean what they say.
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00:08:11.040Westerners do not understand Middle Eastern culture, its religion, Islam, and how Islam as a political and religious ideology drives and impacts every aspect of the culture and its people.
00:08:22.760Westerners come from a Judeo-Christian background where the teaching of faith centers on love, tolerance, and forgiveness.
00:08:27.880They do not understand that the sword of Islam, so glamorized on film, represents hatred, intolerance, murder, and the subjugation of anyone not Muslim.
00:08:38.880No, I spent a weekend in Beirut a couple years ago.
00:08:42.000I had a lovely time, very nice people.
00:08:43.900You, of course, spent an entire childhood outside of that cosmopolitan city.
00:08:48.140What did you observe growing up in Lebanon that we are missing in the West?
00:08:52.040Well, I'm going to start with the Arab nation treatment of the Jewish population immediately after the state of Israel got its independence.
00:09:02.580When we talk in the West about the radicalization of these new groups like al-Qaeda or al-ISIS, it's only a radical minority.
00:09:11.760Most people are not learning history or paying attention to history.
00:09:15.660Almost one million Jews were expelled out of Arab land immediately after Israel was declared the state.
00:09:21.940Most people were put on buses and set on fire as they were playing Jews.
00:09:26.200Now, these people were being expelled by their own government, by their own neighbors, by their own friends, by their own countrymen.
00:09:34.160We, as minorities in the Middle East, understand what it's like to be a minority in the sea of a large Islamic Middle East.
00:09:41.660Lebanon used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East.
00:09:50.040We welcomed everyone into our country because we wanted to share with them the westernization which we had created in the heart of the Middle East.
00:09:58.200Muslims used to send their children to study in our universities because we had built the best universities in the Middle East.
00:10:04.860Their kids graduated and worked in our economy because we had built the best economy in the Middle East, even though we did not have any oil.
00:10:13.100Beirut became Paris of the Middle East.
00:10:15.100Unfortunately, all that began to change as the Muslims became the majority and we Christians became the minority.
00:10:22.340And once the call of war was declared, the call of jihad, and that happened because of the influx of the Palestinians, when Jordan expelled them and Lebanon, being a fair and open and open-minded and tolerant country, it was the only country that accepted the third wave of Palestinian refugees, which most of the Arabic countries did not want them.
00:10:43.060They were majority Muslims, and we, the Christians, accepted them.
00:10:46.760Once the Palestinians came in, they put their heads together with the Muslims in Lebanon, and they have become the majority and we the minority.
00:10:54.440And that's when they declared war, basically, on Lebanon.
00:10:58.080What they tried to do is basically create a base from which to fight Israel, kill the Jews, and throw them into the sea, something they tried to do in Jordan but failed because of the dictatorship of the king in a Muslim country.
00:11:10.620But they were able to do that in Lebanon, taking care, taking advantage of our democracy and open-mindedness.
00:11:17.260So I saw it up close and personal, what happens to minorities in the Middle East, whether you are a Christian, whether you are a Jew, whether you are a Yazidi.
00:11:27.620I mean, look what ISIS did to the Yazidis.
00:11:29.680Whether you are a Kurd, it doesn't matter.
00:11:32.020So my story is just a small example of what's happening all across the Middle East to different denominations and different groups who happen not to be Islamic.
00:11:42.680Israel is a good place to enter into this topic, too, because our own politicians in the West seem to blame us for Islamic terror attacks on us.
00:11:52.800Barack Obama prattles on in total ignorance about the Crusades, the Gulf Wars.
00:11:58.000And then, of course, the activist left blames Israel.
00:12:00.620Now, the Israeli army, from what I read, saved your mother's life.
00:12:04.940How did the reality of Israel contradict the propaganda that you grew up with?
00:12:12.480When I was 10 years old, Islamists blew up my home, bringing it down, burying me under the rubble wounded.
00:12:18.680I ended up in a hospital for two and a half months and later ended up living in a bomb shelter underground without electricity, water, and very little food, as you mentioned in the introduction.
00:12:28.540We thought the world is going to come save us.
00:12:31.480We thought, you know, America, all the Christian countries are going to hear what's happening to the Christians in Lebanon, the slaughters, the massacre, and they're going to come save us.
00:12:39.680And we waited and we waited and nobody came.
00:12:41.600And meanwhile, Islamic radicals, the combined forces of Palestinians and Muslims, and they were all Muslims, started massacring the Christians and killing the Christians.
00:12:51.280I come from a town in southern Lebanon, and we knew what our faith was going to be because we heard what's happening to the rest of the Christians in Lebanon.
00:13:00.420I lived five kilometers from the Israeli border.
00:13:03.020So a few people from my town decided to go to Israel to the border and beg for help because they knew that if we go to the Jews and beg for help, the Jews are not going to slaughter us because we had more shared values with them than we had with the Muslims.
00:13:16.560So a few people from my town went to Israel and begged for help.
00:13:20.320And Israel started coming in the middle of the night, bringing in ammunition for the military, bringing in food for the military, food for the children, even bomb shelters for those who did not have bomb shelters.
00:13:31.820And this is how we survived for another three years.
00:13:34.640I remember, at the age of 13 years old, three years into our ordeal, and the only way we're surviving is because the Israeli army is basically protecting us and sending ammunition in the middle of the night and training the Christians how to fight so we can stay alive.
00:13:50.240I remember, Michael, at the age of 13, dressing in my burial clothes because we heard that we were going to be attacked that night.
00:13:57.820And a friend of ours stopped by and he said, Brigitte, if I don't see you tomorrow, I wish you a merciful death.
00:14:05.440And I remember dressing in my Easter dress, my Sunday best, because I wanted to look pretty when I am dead, knowing that when they come to slaughter me, there would be no one to bury me.
00:14:16.960And I remember crying, begging my mother, I don't want to die.
00:14:52.580Thank God I did not have to make that difficult decision that night.
00:14:55.860Because that's the night when Israel came in physically into Lebanon and established security zone around our homes to make sure we are protected, that the Palestinians and Muslims will not be able to come into our town and slaughter us.
00:15:08.700And this is how we ended up surviving another five years.
00:15:12.900And at the end of the five years, it was seven years in the bomb shelter so far.
00:15:18.300Israel invaded Lebanon, working with the Christians in Lebanon, trying to help them take back their democracy.
00:15:23.840Because by that time, we had 11 Islamic terrorist organizations operating out of Lebanon, including the PLO.
00:15:31.660So Israel invaded Lebanon, working with the Christians, hoping to establish peace with the Christians in Lebanon and kick out the radical Islamic element.
00:15:40.620And that's when my mother became wounded by a Muslim shell exploding in front of our bomb shelter.
00:15:46.900And we had to take her to Israel for treatment.
00:15:49.180That really was the turning point in my life.
00:15:51.900For my mother, it was a life-saving experience.
00:15:55.200For me, it was a life-changing experience.
00:16:20.860How do you respond to these white lefties who are accusing you, ignorantly accusing you, of hate speech for just recounting your own experience as a child?
00:17:10.040I am the Anne Frank who lived to tell about it.
00:17:13.500If Anne Frank was alive and she lived, don't you think she would be fighting against Nazism and any sign of Nazism?
00:17:20.640And warning the world if she saw signs that she recognized as a child, I am the Anne Frank who lived to tell about it.
00:17:28.340And right now, my Nazism, my Islamic radicalism that I suffered through when I was a child is now a plague inflecting the world, whether it is in Australia or America or Israel or any other place in the world.
00:17:43.680Right now, what affected me, the evil that attacked me as a child is now attacking the world.
00:17:51.140It is the duty of every person who loves peace to stand up and say, we come together with peaceful Muslims, with peaceful people from all religions and all backgrounds who want to make the world a better place for our children and for ourselves and their descendants.
00:18:06.360We want to leave the world better than the way we received it.
00:18:10.180Those people we embrace, we welcome, we work with.
00:18:14.200But if you do not stand up against evil, that says something about you.
00:18:18.980And unfortunately today, Michael, we are being vilified for standing up against evil.
00:18:25.100The world is turned upside down, but we cannot allow people to silence us.
00:18:30.420I was I just came from Israel last night.
00:18:33.480I was in Israel for the last 12 days and I met with members of the Knesset.
00:19:01.600How can anybody label someone like me as a hate monger?
00:19:06.660And by the way, here I was on the border with Lebanon and I as a Lebanese was looking at my home across the border and I couldn't even drive five minutes to be able to visit my home of birth and take my children to see where I come from.
00:19:22.600Because Hezbollah wants my head on a platter simply because I want peace with the state of Israel.
00:19:28.820Well, this, it's why I'll bring up making fun of the white liberals here because it seems so morally backward and so absurd.
00:19:37.860They're confusing this question of race with a question of religion, with a question of ideas.
00:19:45.000The left calls disagreement with Islam racist.
00:19:48.120They call you a racist, even though you're the same race as all of these people.
00:22:36.400We have been able to pass almost 100 bills nationwide, 13 bills in Congress, and over 80 bills in 32 states across the country to protect the nation.
00:22:47.160So, I encourage those who are listening right now, join us so together we can make a one mega voice in defense of our country.
00:22:55.280Go to our website, actforamerica.org, and join us as an activist, start a chapter, as a chapter president.
00:23:02.180We have to come together and work together regardless what the left says.
00:23:06.260We cannot let the left dictate the destiny of our nation because we are too busy answering them instead of marching forward to protect our country for our children.
00:23:16.640I also really like that line of yours, do not let barking dogs stop you on your way to your destination, which I believe is the new motto of United Airlines.
00:23:24.600This is a recent change for that airline.
00:23:27.180I want to talk about radical Islam, which you bring up the difference between radical Islam and run-of-the-mill Islam.
00:23:32.740American political leaders on both sides of the aisle have seen fit to lecture Islamic terrorists on the true nature of Islam.
00:23:40.780So, George Bush famously called Islam a religion of peace.
00:24:39.220So, the ideology itself is a very violent, bloodthirsty ideology, supremacist ideology, that wants to subjugate everybody who is non-Muslim.
00:24:51.480The Islamic Empire ruled for 1,400 years.
00:24:54.200By the time the Islamic Empire ended, 270 million people across the globe have been killed by Islam, radical Islam, but Islam, the ideology.
00:25:06.540Because unless you are a people of the book, basically Christians and Jews, where you become second-class citizens if you do not want to convert.
00:25:13.860Anything else, like Buddhists, Hindus, everybody else, where you either become a Muslim or you die.
00:25:18.380So, the ideology itself is very strict, very violent, very bloodthirsty.
00:25:23.360Now, a lot of Muslims don't even understand their religion, have never read their religion, but they like the structure of something spiritual.
00:25:31.820You know, I like to pray five times a day.
00:25:33.980I like, you know, to go to mosque on Friday.
00:25:41.320Like the majority of African Americans in the United States, who call themselves Muslims, but they don't really understand what Islam, what the Seerah and Hadith and the Quran basically teach.
00:25:52.460ISIS understands exactly their religion.
00:25:55.880Al-Qaeda understands exactly their religion.
00:25:58.080So, for example, when President Obama would talk about al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, that he doesn't understand what he's talking about.
00:26:05.040Al-Baghdadi has a PhD in Islamic theology.
00:26:07.940He graduated from the University of Iraq with a PhD in Islamic theology.
00:26:38.220And we are seeing the rise of Islamic radicalism, that Islamic caliphate has already been established, and we better pay attention, because when you look at Islamic history, we're seeing the same signs happen again.
00:26:49.140You know, Ben did a video a few years ago about the radical Muslim minority, which we hear Barack Obama talk about all the time.
00:27:00.100In Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, 200 million Muslims living there, 50% support strict Sharia law, 70% blame the U.S. and Israel for 9-11.
00:27:09.940In Egypt, 80 million Muslims, 65% support strict Sharia law in every Muslim country, 70% have positive or mixed feelings about Osama bin Laden.
00:27:19.020Bangladesh, 149 million Muslims, 25% think suicide bombings and the targeting of civilians is justified.
00:27:26.100A full two-thirds say that honor killings of women can be justified.
00:27:30.340In Turkey, the most moderate Muslim country, a full 32% of Muslims think honor killings of women can be justified.
00:27:37.46078% of Iraqis say honor killings of women can be justified.
00:27:42.140In France, 35% of Muslims say suicide bombings can be justified.
00:27:46.560In Britain, 78% of Muslims want cartoonists who draw Muhammad to be prosecuted.
00:27:51.800And finally, in the good old USA, 13% of Muslims think violence against civilians can be justified.
00:27:58.520Almost 20% are favorably disposed or neutral toward Al-Qaeda.
00:28:03.180That said, the majority of victims of Muslim terror around the world, of course, are other Muslims.
00:28:10.580How can we, maybe this will be the point we can close on,
00:28:14.720How can the West fight Islamic terror without alienating all Muslims?
00:28:22.320We have to fight Muslim terrorism and we have to stand up for ourselves.
00:28:28.260Other Muslims, let me put it to you this way.
00:28:32.360Whatever we have done in the last seven years in trying to win them with love and affection
00:28:36.880and show them how nice we are and we're not against Islam, anything happens.
00:28:41.420You see people in Afghanistan or in Pakistan by the hundreds of thousands taking to the street
00:28:46.160and miraculously, all of a sudden, they all have American flag and Israeli flags
00:28:49.880and they're burning them and they are chanting death to Israel, death to the United States.