“As an Arab Christian and victim of radical Islam during the Lebanese Civil War, I refuse to stand by and let the same thing happen to my adopted country, the U.S. Even after 9/11, there are those who say that we must ‘engage’ our terrorist enemies, that we must ‘address their grievances’. Their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our democratic process. Islamic religious authorities and terrorist leaders repeatedly state that they will destroy the U.S. and Western Civilization. Unless we take them at their word, and defend ourselves, they will succeed … because they hate us!” by Brigitte Gabriel, a survivor of Islamic terror.
