Brigitte Gabriel

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Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel

Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese[citation needed] American journalist, author and activist. She is the founder of the American Congress For Truth, an organization dedicated to educating the public about Islam.

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[edit] Early life in Lebanon

Brigitte Gabriel was born in 1965 in Lebanon to a Maronite Christian family.[citation needed]

Gabriel has claimed that during the Lebanese Civil War Muslim militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near Gabriel's house and bombed her home, collapsing it.[citation needed] Brigitte's mother was severely injured and spent 2 1/2 months in an Israeli hospital recovering.[citation needed]

Gabriel claims that she and her parents were forced to live in a 8x10 bomb shelter underground for seven years with no heat, running water and little food. To get water she claims to have crawled underground to a spring in a ditch[citation needed]. Before they left they said prayers, because they did not know if they would come back alive: "When the Muslims and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water." i.e. Black Saturday, Karantina massacre, Tel al-Zaatar massacre and Sabra and Shatila massacre.

According to her in 1978, when she was 13, a man warned Brigitte’s family that Islamic militants were coming and the Christians are in danger. She says on that day she dressed in burial clothes in preparation.[citation needed]

Gabriel claims that in 1978 a man warned her of an impending attack by Islamic militias. She claims her life was saved that night when Israelis invaded Lebanon in Operation Litani[citation needed]. Later, her mother became ill and was taken to an Israeli hospital where Brigitte noted the humanity of the Israelis in contrast to the propaganda she had viewed as a child.[citation needed]

[edit] Career

Brigitte Gabriel was a news anchor for "World News," an evening news program that was broadcast weeknights throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Lebanon.[citation needed]

She is a former production coordinator for ARD (German Television) in South Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank,[citation needed] and a former satellite video distribution coordinator for Middle East Television[citation needed]owned by Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.


She immigrated to the United States in 1985 where she founded an entertainment company and became an American citizen.[citation needed]


Gabriel founded the ACT, "American Congress For Truth," in late 2001. She has appeared on news and information TV shows, talk radio and made numerous public speaking engagements. She speaks four languages: Arabic[citation needed], French, English and Hebrew.

She is featured in the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

She was interviewed on CNN where she denounced Hezbollah and sided with Israel in the the war, thanking Israel for their efforts in her home country.

She has accused Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon of starting the Lebanese Civil War.[citation needed]

She has also accused CAIR of supporting terrorism.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Quotes

"The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil." -- Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out, October 14, 2004

"As one who knows what's in the hearts and minds of Arabs, let me repeat what seems to be the hardest thing for world opinion to accept: The Arabs have no intention of having peace with the Jews period, exclamation point, end of discussion." -- Interview with FrontPage Magazine, August 11, 2005

[edit] Articles and speeches

[edit] Interviews & TV Appearances

[edit] External references

[edit] Video

[edit] See also

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