American Muslims Face Growing Prejudice

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,785836,00.html

Even on hot summer days in Virginia, Brigitte Gabriel receives visitors looking as if she were dressed for the opera. She has her hair teased up, copious amounts of pearls adorning her neck and arms, and her feet clad in rhinestone-studded sandals. This is her uniform in the war against what she sees as the barbarians of radical Islam. On three occasions, Gabriel has been the subject of declarations by al-Qaida, she says, and her name is probably on various death lists. Indeed, Gabriel, who emigrated to the US years ago from Lebanon, is America's siren on all things Islamophobic, and her speeches are one indication of how the country may have changed since the attacks of September 11.

Gabriel's position can be summarized as follows: The US is suffering from terminal cancer and is infected with rampant Islamist cells that are eating away at the country, its liberties and its constitution. "Our enemy," writes Gabriel, "is not an organization of people living overseas plotting to attack. Our enemies are the neighbors next door, the doctors practicing in our hospitals, and the workers who share our lunch break. Our enemies are terrorists driven by a dangerous ideology and clothed in deception who operate under cover and laugh about the advantages our sensitivity training, gullibility, and political correctness give them."

Some 300,000 copies of Gabriel's first book, which contains these sentences, have been distributed. TV stations now set aside ample airtime for her and her ideas. She has been invited to give presentations to US Senate committees, the FBI, the US Special Operations Command, the Joint Forces Staff College, the Republican Party, the Tea Party movement and Christian conferences. Brigitte Gabriel, who pronounces her name as if it were French, is an idol in the conservative half of America's deeply divided society -- but remains a reviled figure in the other half.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. k n r

[marmar]

2. k/r

nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

3. Another fearmonger ...

Good grief.

[ThomCat]

4. Fearmongers should be ridiculed!

Never allow them to be anything more than pathetic clowns.

[Jefferson23]

5. One thing I disagree with, this is not almost embarrassing to have to point out, it is horrendous

the situation has dropped this low:

"It seems almost embarrassing to have to point out that Muslims in America are doctors and taxi drivers, waiters and mathematicians, dancers and soldiers, ice cream vendors and teachers. They have families, take picnics in the park on Saturdays, and only want the best for their children. Many of them are fans of the New York Yankees or ardent supporters of the Boston Celtics. Miss USA 2010 was Rima Fakih, a Muslim woman in a bikini; she is also a good indication that the world might be very different from what Gabriel and her followers imagine." ( end)

Too often this reminder has to be made, unfortunately. You can't tell some Americans why we were even attacked in the first
place, a percentage still believe we were hit because of "their" religion, because "they" hate are "freedoms"...and on and on.

We are the good guys, they aren't.


K&R, thanks for posting.

[MisterP]

6. Gabriel is a Good Muslim, like the Israeli hit teams, the Fatah members who told the IDF where to

hit Gaza, Chalabi, Allawi, Maryam Rajavi (these two have more independent bases), and the Libyan women calling in NATO's airstrikes; or like ibn Warraq or Walid Shoebat or Hirsi Ali or the other "Muslim dissidents" the wannabe Breiviks at the British Humanists keep trotting out