Here is an article that was sent to me I thought was interesting:
Time Magazine is publishing a shocking interview with an Iraqi suicide
bomber. It's mind-boggling to understand, but just like WWII when America
came to understand and accept the barbarism of the Nazis and Japs, so must
Americans come to grips with our current enemy, the Islamic militants and
how they view America .
To help explain this, consider Brigitte Gabriel, a native of the Arab world,
and the former news anchor of World News for Middle East Television.
Now a Contributing Editor for FamilySecurityMatters.com, Gabriel wants
viewers and listeners to know the truth about what the Arab World thinks of
Senator Durbin's remarks, the alleged so-called "abuses" at Gitmo (a joke
she calls it), and the Arab ideology which views the mettle of a man as the
brutal way they treat their enemy.
As a child, Gabriel's own home was destroyed by radical Islamists because
she was a Christian. She spent 2 1/2 months in the hospital and then lived
under-ground for 7 years with no electricity and little food. THEN she rose
to become a news anchor, and later moved to the US where she's a true
American success story - own business, husband, two kids, etc.
Here is the excellent OpEd by Brigitte.
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WHAT THE ARAB WORLD THINKS
By Brigitte Gabriel
Torture is accepted and even expected in the Arab world. Yes, I know what
you're thinking-that's not politically correct in most mainstream media. And
you know some nice Arabs who have immigrated to America. But it's the truth
in the Arab world. Might makes right. Real men don't eat quiche. They prove
their manhood by the way they treat their enemy. After all it's what
Muhammad did to the unbelievers - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians in the
Quoran - the 'holy book' allegedly mishandled in Guantanamo prison.
Arab Muslim men gain honor by shaming, belittling, abusing and torturing
their enemy in the most horrific ways. Just look at how the Palestinians
treat so-called collaborators by disemboweling them and hanging them upside
down in Manger Square in Bethlehem. Look at the terrorist torture chambers
that the coalition forces recently uncovered in Iraq.
When people refer to the prisons of Saddam Hussein and his regime they think
he is the extreme exception. Not so! The truth is his torture tactics are
quite the norm in the Arab world. If you want to see torture that is beyond
what any Westerner can ever imagine please go to (
http://www.masada2000.org/impalement.asx
<http://www.masada2000.org/impalement.asx> ) Yes, you read it right,
impalement. You'll get a glimpse of what the Arabs do to their own people.
As someone who came from the Arab world and knows how they think, it
frustrates me to see self-appointed righteous minded politicians and media
pundits oblivious to Arabic culture and thinking, criticizing America's
actions at Guantanamo. These are a bunch of al Qaeda jihadists who were
captured while bent on killing us - the kaffirs or 'unbelievers. They laugh
watching our government bend over backwards, forwards and sideways trying to
appease the critics. The more we stumble over ourselves questioning our
goals and tactics, the more they think we are weak and easy to defeat.
They smirk because they believe that Americans have demonstrated how stupid
and weak they are by caving in to stories about maltreatment of Guantanamo
detainees. They are watching our critics in this country and counting on
them to embolden the radical Islamic cause and weaken our resolve.
Actually, Gitmo is a joke as far as the Arabs are concerned. Prison? You
call that a prison? Let me tell you what some of the prisoners call
Guantanamo , "Al muntazah al-dini lilmujaheden al Muslimin ," The Religious
Resort for Islamic Militants.
(note: It strikes me as tragically ironic that when my friends and
colleagues were imprisoned and tortured in North Vietnam's horrific
confinement facilities (some for over 7 years), no one in America except
their families complained. Where was the "Oh my God look what is happening
to our prisoners" crowd then? Certainly not the press, who believed Jane
Fonda when she said they were well treated; certainly not the Johnson
administration, who directly told the families of our prisoners to 'be
quiet' and not raise the awareness of their husbands, fathers, and sons, and
certainly not the GD ACLU!). JCM
They are given three halal meals a day in accordance to their religious
dictates. How many kosher prisons are there in the Arabic world? None. Jews
captured in the Arab world are butchered like those obscene pictures taken
in Ramallah during the frenzied slaughter of two Israeli reservists who got
lost. Remember the Palestinian man holding his red, Jewish blood dripping
hands, high above his head in victory?
Remember Nick Berg's head being held high also?
Most of these detainees never had three meals a day in their entire life.
They are gaining weight, and are living in what they refer to in Arabic as
"Al-Jannah ," paradise. They have radio, television, soccer games,
air-conditioning, clean clothes, servants, meaning American GIs, who wait on
them hand and foot. They have Islamic chaplains and handed Qu'rans, the
social hate guide against Infidels, by people so concerned as not to offend
that they wear latex gloves and carry the book with two hands.
Many Muslims in the Middle East would gladly give up their poverty,
dictatorial governments, corrupt leaders and social bondage to enjoy the
relative luxuries Guantanamo offers. They have free medical care, better
than millions of uninsured Americans and our military men and women serving
on the jihadists' battlefield. Some of them who couldn't afford to see an
optometrist now have glasses and can see and read their Qu'ran. Others who
never had the opportunity to see a dentist now have a free dental plan. It
has become such a joke; we even stop interrogations to let them take prayer
breaks demanded by their religion.
As an Arab, I can tell you that Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin
is aiding and abetting the goals and strategy of Islamic jihadists who have
declared war on the United States. Where was Durbin's comparison to the
Nazis when we found the torture chambers in Iraq ? Where was Durbin's
comparison to Soviet gulags when we found the hundreds of thousands of
bodies in Saddam's mass graves?
Where was Durbin's head when he compared prisoners captured on the field of
battle to the internment of Japanese American civilians during WWII? OK,
apologize to unarmed citizens, not fighters with weapons in their hands.
Where was Durbin when he compared Gitmo and Abu Ghraib to the industry of
death that murdered 6 million Jewish men, women and children during WWII? If
anything his heart and mind were in the jihadists terrorists' camp. If you
see what story is being downloaded and shared by viewers of the al Jazeera
web site you will find the story on Durbin's comments the winner.
If I were an Islamic terrorist I would be thanking Durbin and forwarding his
views to all my fellow fanatics. His reckless comments fuel the fanatic
frenzied jihadists, motivating them to blow themselves up in the midst of
innocent civilians, savagely cut the heads of helpless hostages and devote
themselves to killing the infidel who could be your neighbor stationed in
Iraq. Just like the Quran says they should.
Dick Durbin is an unwitting champion of Islamic radical fundamentalists. His
comments should be known from this day forward as a " Durbinization" of the
facts. To demonize something grossly out of proportion to what the enemy is
doing is to Durbinize. Gitmo and Abu Ghraib have been Durbinized and the
Arab world loves it. They laugh at Durbin because he's supporting their
belief in the destruction of our country and civilization.
The shame is Durbin doesn't have a clue as to what he's done. As far as he's
concerned, he did the right thing for the Islamic radical detainees living
high on the proverbial hog in Gitmo . What he really did was made them
laugh; laugh at us for being fools and not real men. Now it's time to see if
the voters in Illinois and his fellow members of Congress are men and women
enough to tell the Moslem world Durbin isn't our real man.
Brigitte Gabriel is the former news anchor of World News for Middle East
television, and now a Contributing Editor of FamilySecurityMatters.com and
the founder of AmericanCongressforTruth.com
