Maid Brigitte of Marjayoun
Marjayoun has become notorious recently, in some circles, not just for decades of Israeli crimes, but also as the base whence Ms. Brigitte Gabriel,
a local woman, appeared and launched her virulent strain of
Islamophobia. Joining with the US-Israel Lobby, she has been organizing
perhaps the most vicious hate campaign against Islam, Arabs, and Muslims
ever witnessed in America.
There is no shortage of people in Marjayoun with varying views of
“what happened to Miss Brigitte” and how she became so hateful toward
her countrymen and became an Israeli collaborator. “She always loved the
Israeli occupation of Marjayoun and over time just came to dislike
Arabs of all types, even though as a Lebanese she is totally Arab,” one
of her former neighbors explained.
Another disagreed, “Brigitte never really thought of herself as an Arab at all, rather she fantasized that she was ‘Phoenician’
and pointed out to her Arabs neighbors that ‘Phoenicians were in
Lebanon long before the Arabs invaded and it belongs to us!’” According
to a former classmate, when she was in middle school, Brigitte preferred
French and would announce to classmates in Arabic class, “I don’t speak Arabic, I speak Lebanese!”
Before moving to Israel and eventually to the United States, Brigitte
worked for Middle East TV, a Marjayoun-based station run by the South
Lebanon Army (SLA) and funded by Israel. It moved to Cyprus for a period
and was later purchased by Pat Robertson, who is now building a
Christian Zionism Center in Israel.
After
obtaining a green card by marrying an American, Brigitte set up a
business selling her new country “insider information not available
elsewhere “about the existential dangers posed by Islam and Arabs,
based, she announced, “on my unique perspective having been nearly
killed by them and rescued by Israel.”
Regarding recent Lebanese affairs, according to her former neighbors
in South Lebanon, Brigitte has been a close supporter of the Phalange
militia and SLA since her teenage years. According to her ACT office in
Virginia Beach, Brigitte hopes to host the current Lebanese Forces
warlord, Samir Geagea—five times convicted of murdering various
Christian opponents and their children—during his upcoming March visit
to the US.
Brigitte As Student of American History
One can just forget about Israel’s brutal military occupation of
Palestine, the Bush Administration invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and
its threatening much of the world, Brigitte sees a jihadist campaign
against her adopted country going back to the very day America was
founded. While Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Washington and Madison
considered the Barbary pirates, who had operated for centuries along the
coasts of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia,“nothing but petty tyrants” and
“nests of banditti,” Brigitte knows better.
In
her view, the founding fathers were simply duped because the Muslim
pirates were in fact serious Jihadists using a promise in the Koran of
Paradise and virgins if they warred against infidels, so they became
pirates.
Nor is Brigitte, who lives not far from Monticello, Jefferson’s
birthplace, impressed by Jefferson’s liberal views about religion. It
may be recalled that the author of the Declaration of Independence and
Virginia’s Act for Religious Freedom was most proud of his role as a
resistance leader against British occupation:
“Where the preamble [to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom —Ed.]
declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author
of our religion, an amendment that was proposed for the insertion of the
words ‘Jesus Christ’ into the preamble was specifically rejected by the
great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the
mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and
Mohammedan, the Hindu, and Infidel of every denomination.” (Thomas
Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious
Freedom)
Jefferson might have had people like Brigitte in mind when he wrote: “But
it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no
God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” (Notes on Virginia,
1782)
While religious tolerance and the existence of other religions did
not pick Jefferson’s pocket, they are filling Brigitte’s as she panders
to the uninformed, the bigoted, and the xenophobic.
Brigitte attracted attention from this observer, who previously had not heard of her, when she posted her July 2006 ‘Thank You Israel!’
letter expressing “heartfelt gratitude” for Israel’s attack on Lebanon.
According to a former colleague of hers, this was drafted at Virginia
Beach while working on her suntan in a period during which much of her
birth country was being destroyed.
In nearly every speech, Marjayoun’s Maid routinely mentions the
essential reminder that Israel, with its estimated 250-plus nuclear
weapons and superpower military, needs more US money and servicemen to
die in order to protect the apartheid regime from the fantastic threats
from the Lebanese resistance and its supporters, which include a
majority of her fellow Lebanese Christians.
Not your run of the mill democrat, Brigitte regularly complains to her audiences that:
“Hezbollah’s
Shiite extremists began multiplying like rabbits and are out producing
moderate Sunnis and Christians. Twenty-five years later they have
produced enough people to vote themselves into 24 seats in the Lebanese
parliament and now are a majority in Lebanon. Hamas is doing the same
thing with the Palestinians as part of their ‘Resistance to Occupation.’
This is the same Hezbollah that Iran is threatening to unleash in
America with suicide bomb attacks if America tries to stop Iran from
developing a nuclear weapon to bomb Israel. They have cells in over 100
cities in the United States. Hamas has the largest terrorist
infrastructure on American soil. This is what happens when you turn a
blind eye to evil for decades, hoping it will go away.”
Recently Brigitte has been telling her audiences about a Des Moines,
Iowa imam who not long ago offered the prayer to open the Iowa
legislature. In this prayer the Muslim gentleman made a plea for
“victory over those who disbelieve,” i.e., those who are atheists. That
John Hagee and his ilk and countless rabbis say the same thing every day
does not appear to have dawned on Brigitte.
While reassuring her audiences “that Islamic terrorism is, of course,
a serious, global threat that we must — repeat, must — defeat,”
Brigitte has recently been seeing another dark penumbra on the horizon:
“But there is another threat to our safety, security and liberty that we
must also defeat and that is the increasing threat of Cultural, Social
and Civilization Jihad aided by the forces of American political
correctness”:
“I
am very troubled that in the name of tolerance and educating American
children about the Muslim empire in history liberal American teachers
get away with giving beginning Islamic teaching which may cause many to
perhaps one day become Muslims. We have reports that in some classes
teachers are allowing students to use calligraphy to copy parts of the
Quran in Arabic as an enrichment activity. This has got to stop!"
Westerners must mount a united front against Islamic law!
“I believe that the way Sharia will insinuate itself into our law
would be through arbitration and mediation of domestic and financial
disputes through an extra-judicial arbitration system condoned by our
courts. That would entail setting up separate a Sharia law section of
the American Arbitration Association overseen by Islamic law panels.
Many agree with me and this should be a warning to all about how Sharia
will spread through the proverbial legal back door.”
Brigitte urges Americans not to allow mosques to be built and
suggests that if citizens observe one being constructed, it should be
immediately reported to the FBI. Brigitte has joined Daniel Pipes and
the thought-policing and silencing actions of AIPAC and its Zionist
affiliates and instructs students that “if a college professor or public
figure criticizes U.S. policies you have a patriotic duty to report
this un-American activity to the Dean, or alert the media and
authorities.”
For her Valentine’s Day message nest month Brigitte warns that “We
must start doing more than exposing or resisting the advances of
Islamofascism — we must go on the offensive to roll it back and fight
for the bedrock values that made America the beacon of hope to the
world. … The only real question is: Do we have the will to do what is
necessary to stop Islamofascism, in whatever form it takes? Because,
simply put, if we do, we will. If we don’t, we won’t. That’s it. Bottom
line.”
Her message of hate, ridicule, and incitement to action against Islam
is akin to shouting Fire! in a crowded theatre, and constitutes
egregious and condemnable hate speech. Her rantings and extreme vitriolic hate speech are fundamentally un-American, un-Lebanese, and un-Christian.
Her campaign should be vigorously rejected by all people of good-will,
including those seeking simplistic explanations and solutions for the
consequences of a catastrophic Bush Administration Middle East policy,
which has caused so much death, destruction and desperation across the
region.
The coming weeks may shed light on what US authorities intend to do about Bridgette’s violations of American hate laws.
