By Chad Groening
October 24, 2003

(AgapePress) - A Christian woman who was born in Lebanon says Americans need to stop being so "fair-minded" in dealing with Islam. She says she knows first-hand that Islam is not a peaceful religion.

Brigitte Gabriel

Brigitte Gabriel witnessed the destruction of her native country at the hands of Islam -- and she is afraid the same thing will happen to her adopted land if her fellow Americans do not wake up to what she refers to as "the escalation of Islamic influence" and that religion's goals of world domination. America, she says, is refusing to see the threat.

"People in this country are trying to be so fair-minded that they are refusing to notice the threat of murder that the Muslims are writing all over this country," she says.

Gabriel founded the American Congress for Truth shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. She believes the absence of condemnation from American Muslim leaders to those attacks demonstrates their belief in what the Qu'ran says about jihad against non-Muslims.

"After September 11, we saw all the Muslim mullahs in this country complaining about [people] in the United States discriminating against Muslims," she notes. "The mullahs did not get together and march in Washington, DC, in front of the Mall and condemn every 'martyr' who blew himself up. The reason why they didn't do that -- and [why] they have not done it up to this point -- is because they believe in the Qu'ran, and this is exactly what the Qu'ran says."

She explains that is also why many Muslims in the U.S. became very defensive when they were questioned about or were asked to condemn the Muslim terrorists who participated in the September 2001 attacks.

Gabriel, a former news anchor for a Middle Eastern television broadcast, compares "moderate" Muslims to many German citizens who lived during the time of Adolf Hitler. "They kept their mouths shut and allowed the evil to dwell -- [but] they were just as much a part of the murders [of millions of Jews] as Hitler was," she says.

According to her group's website, the American Congress for Truth exists to present "an informed and inside perspective from Christian Arabs' viewpoint on what Arabs in general and Moslems in particular think about Israel, the United States, and Western civilization."