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.
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