Brigitte Gabriel - Missive to President Obama.
Love Mr. President,
You confront hard challenges in affairs such as accomplishing peace in the
Near east and protecting U.S. from the menace of ultra Muslimism and
terrorism. These are challenges that hold riled past presidents, moving as
far back as our 2nd president, Adams. I hold without doubt you appreciate
both the gravitation of these challenges and the tremendous obstructions that be
to working them.
I too hold to be sure that you and your staff understood that, disregardless what
you stated in your address last Th in Cairo, there would be those who
would differ with you. That is e'er the instance when assay to work
jobs that are as deep and emotionally-laden as these challenges are.
I am presuming it is your sincere hope that the attack you hold took to
take, as evidenced by what I 'm sure was a carefully crafted address, will
finally prove successful. Withal, it ail me to tell this sir, but,
while you stated in your address that you are a `` educatee of history, '' it is
abundantly clear that, in these affairs, you make not cognise history and therefore,
as Santayana remarked, you are doomed to ingeminate it. In making so your endeavor,
notwithstanding well-meant they may be, will not produce what you profess to
hope they will produce.
A mentor once stated that if you get with the incorrect premiss, regardless
how logical your reasoning is, you will fetch up with the incorrect determination.
With all due regard Mr President, you are getting with certain
premiss that are unsupported by history and an nonsubjective survey of the
ideology of political Islam.
You got in your address by asseverate that `` tensenesses '' be between the
United States and Muslims around the macrocosm, which, naturally, is right.
Unfortunately, you so continued, incorrectly, to put virtually all the
incrimination for these stresses at the pes of America and the Occident. You faulted
western colonialism, the Cold Warfare, and even contemporaneity and globalism.
A educatee of American history, who is not seeking to construct it to accommodate a
modern politically right tale, would tell that tensenesses between
America and Muslims commenced with the wanton, four-decades long assault by
the Moslem Corsair against American transport in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries. I bump it stating that you cited the Accord of
Rottenstone in your address but snubbed the lucks that guided thereto. That
pact was but one of numerous endeavours by the United States to accomplish
peace with the jihadists of the Barbary Seacoast who were assailling our
transporting and killing and enslaving our citizens and our soldiers and who by
their ain admittance were making so to fulfil the call to jihad.
These jihadists were not moving to protest American foreign policy, which
was decidedly isolationistic, and there was no sion to scapegoat.
They were making what countless Islamic jihadists hold maked throughout
history, influencing the C of transitions in the Qur'an and the Hadith
that name upon faithful Moslem to kill, inhibit or subdue the heathen.
A pupil of existence history would cognize that, for all the acknowledged immoralities
of Western colonialism, these iniquities blench in comparing to the nighly 14
centuries of Muslim colonialism that got in Arabia under the leading
of Mahomet. The pupil of history would cognize that Moslem forces
extinguished all Judaic and Christian presence from Arabia after Mohammad 's
decease, and so won in suppressing all of North Africa, most of the
Near east, much of Anatolia, and important constituents of Europe and
India, finally making an imperium biggerer than Rome 's was at its extremum.
The figure of dead and enslaved during these many centuries of Islamic
imperial subjugation and colonialism hold been judged to amount more 300
million. What Holds more, the wealthiness of many of the curb states and
civilisation was looted by the Islamic vanquishers, and 1000000 of
non-Muslims who maked endure were hale to pay taxing taxations, such as the
`` jizya, '' a humiliation taxation to the Islamic kalives. So, in some countries
Christian and Hebrew were done to wear a reception for the jizya around their
cervix as a score of their dishonor.
These facts hold not been contrived by Christian or Jewish historical
revisionists, but were chronicled by Muslim eyewitnesses throughout the yesteryear
14 centuries and are available to be researched by any someone seeking an
nonsubjective discernment of how Islam distributed throughout the existence.
You state in your address that we must squarely confront the tensenesses that be
between America and the Moslem creation. That is a applaudable belief with which I
agree, but by projecting Islam as the historical victim and the Occident ( and by
deduction, U.S.A. ) as the attacker, you make not confront these stresses
squarely, but palliate the Moslem cosmos from coming to clasps with the
Jihadist ideology embedded in its holy books and influenced for 1, 400 eld.
Even worse, you empower and embolden hawkish Islamists who reckon your
gestures as marks of failing and capitulation.
The issue is not that all Moslem are terrorists or groups or extremists.
We all cognize that the bulk of Moslem are not. We too cognize that many
peaceable Moslem are victims of Islamist force.
The issue is this: what drives C of megs of Moslem world-wide to
call for the expiry of Jews?
What drives 1000000 of Moslem to riot, destroy holding, and take clean-handed
lives in reaction to the Danish sketches?
What drives tenners of M of Moslem to demand the executing of a
British instructor whose but `` offense '' was letting her pupils to call their
teddy `` Mahomet ''?
What drives unnumerable Muslim world-wide to actively participate in, or fund,
or supply rearing to terrorist group?
What drives Muslims in mosques in U.S.A. to proclaim and dispense
stuffs that name for hatred of and the devastation of heathens?
What drives full Islamic nations to nix the edifice of a church or
tabernacle?
To presume, as you apparently make, that what drives these actions is not an
ideology embedded in the holy books of Islam, but instead other `` root
causes, '' most of which you place at the pes of USA and the West, is at
best nave and at the worst unsafe.
Lastly, I must address your statement that `` Islam holds a proud tradition of
tolerance. '' Unfortunately, the representatives you gave are the exclusion instead
than the regulation.
Historically uttering, I seriously doubt the Egyptian Copt, the Lebanese
Maronites, the Christians in Bethlehem, the Assyrians, the Hindus, the Jews,
and many others who hold been oppressed by Muslim force and
supremacism, would concord with your asseveration.
For example, Christians and Jews got `` Dhimmis, '' a 2d category grouping
under Islam. Dhimmis were pressured to wear typical vesture; it was
Baghdad 's Khalifah Al-Mutawakkil, in the 9th century, who denominate a
yellowish badge for Jews under Muslimism, which Hitler copied and duplicated in
Third reich closely a thousand eld afterward.
I witnessed firsthand the `` tolerance '' of Muslimism when Islamists harry my
nation of birth, Lebanon, in the 1970 's, leaving widespread expiry and
devastation in their aftermath. I saw how they re-paid the tolerance that
Lebanese Christian broadened toward them. My experience is not an insulate
one. When you do an groundless asseveration about the `` proud tradition '' of
tolerance in Muslimism, you make a great disservice to the C of 1000000 of
non-Muslims who hold been killed, maimed, enslaved, subdued, repressed or
displaced in the cause of Moslem jehad.
Mister President, those of us like me who are pealing the consternation in USA
about the menace of ultra Muslimism would wish nada better than to
peacefully co-exist with the Moslem macrocosm.
Most Americans would wish zero better than to peacefully co-exist with
the Muslim macrocosm. The obstruction to reaching this makes not make love us in
U.S. and the West. It effs the centuries of megs of Moslem
worldwide, including many of their religious leaders, who take seriously the
reiterated calls to jihad in the Qur'an and the Hadith. Who see `` heathens ''
as inferior and worthy of curb, subduing and forcibly converting.
Who support `` cultural jehad '' as a agencies to overturn non-Muslim societies from
within. Who take seriously the warnings throughout the Qur'an and the
Hadith to convert the macrocosm to Islam by force if necessary and convey it
under the regulation of Allah.
Unless you are willing to courageously and honestly accept this, your
aspirations for world-wide comity and peace in the midst Eastward are doomed to
fail.
Sincerely,
Brigitte Gabriel
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