Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message

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FORT WORTH — Brigitte Gabriel bounced to the stage at a Tea Party convention last fall. She greeted the crowd with a loud Texas “Yee-HAW,” then launched into the same gripping personal story she has told in hundreds of churches, synagogues and conference rooms across the United States:

As a child growing up a Maronite Christian in war-torn southern Lebanon in the 1970s, Ms. Gabriel said, she had been left lying injured in rubble after Muslims mercilessly bombed her village. She found refuge in Israel and then moved to the United States, only to find that the Islamic radicals who had terrorized her in Lebanon, she said, were now bent on taking over America.

“America has been infiltrated on all levels by radicals who wish to harm America,” she said. “They have infiltrated us at the C.I.A., at the F.B.I., at the Pentagon, at the State Department. They are being radicalized in radical mosques in our cities and communities within the United States.”

Through her books, media appearances and speeches, and her organization, ACT! for America, Ms. Gabriel has become one of the most visible personalities on a circuit of self-appointed terrorism detectors who warn that Muslims pose an enormous danger within United States borders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[HillbillyBob]

1. Red Scares, warnings that the left will steal corporate 'rights'

Same shit, different century and country.
Picture it Germany 1929........

[spanone]

3. yep...fearmongering...

[rgbecker]

2. There coming for us over the Rio Grande! Run for your lives.

Are these people all from Texas?

[CLANG]

4. “America has been infiltrated on all levels by radicals who wish to harm America,” she said.

“They have infiltrated us at the C.I.A., at the F.B.I., at the Pentagon, at the State Department.

I think they're called Republicans.

[mmonk]

5. Has she earned her arm band yet?

Or an iron cross?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

6. This sort of rhetoric...

...will be shifted into hyper-drive as more and more people use the internet to seek out important truths. Our government is more than a little worried, that much is clear.

[applegrove]

7. She'll become a milionaire for spewing hate the GOP can use. The Republicans

are always putting down hollywood liberals for their celebrity status but at least they have the talent to make them famous, why shouldn't they share and fight for their political beliefs. All the while the GOP turns useful liars and haters into celebrities because they have a lack of actual talented people to make the conservative rounds.

[JCMach1]

8. It's close-minded fundamentalism of all sorts that's the danger...

not just Islam. The Prophet (PBUH) has no monopoly on those types.

[azul]

9. Jews Christians and Muslims, meet Seitan.

Chewing it, we lose our taste for blood, and maybe then our ... fanaticism.

[Poboy]

10. "Curveball". Babies being thrown out of incubators. etc..

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. In a Republican utopia, she'd be first against the wall.

[upi402]

12. Just had to deal with a victim of this fanatical propaganda

It wasn't worth arguing -it feels like they are mentally challenged at this point... they are so far out there and 100% certain.

Kick, rec

[eridani]

13. She probably doesn't know that Hezbollah broadcasts Maronite Christian

--Mass services on its cable channel.