He was ultimately unsuccessful. In January , the Alabama school board voted five to two to approve the textbooks. Houck wrote a letter to the board claiming the books "proselytize for Islam. Many ACT members saw nothing wrong with the allegations leveled against him.
ACT has a long history of targeting refugees. In , ACT helped to pass anti-refugee legislation in Tennessee. Four years later, in an email to supporters, ACT announced plans to take this effort to as many states of possible. CSP is also working on this fight, but at the national rather than state level.
In , like many of the major anti-Muslim groups in the U. In February of , Montana ACT activists participated in a rally in opposition a proposal to open a refugee resettlement office in Missoula, Montana. Around this time, ACT began building relationships with some of the most prominent antigovernment groups in the country, including the Oath Keepers and Three Percenter groups.
Videos of the event show the Three Percenters patrolling the area with guns. Also in Washington, State Rep. In June , the arrest of several juveniles for the alleged sexual assault of a five-year-old girl in Idaho set off an anti-Muslim firestorm that was exploited ruthlessly by the right-wing media outlets like Breitbart and InfoWars, the local ACT chapter, and Liberty Defense Team and another Three Percenter group.
The fact that the details of the assault had been grossly exaggerated , which led to extensive harassment campaigns of local politicians and business leaders, seemed to have no impact. Rios is a radio host with the anti-LGBT hate group American Family Association , which also has a lengthy history of demonizing Muslims and immigrants. Gabriel and ACT have collaborated with FRC on various campaigns that include thanking elected officials for taking hardline anti-Muslim stances.
The speech was listed as an intelligence briefing. Jeffress has a history of anti-gay, anti-Mormon, and anti-Catholic rhetoric. ACT openly supported Donald Trump during the election campaign and his victory in November of was celebrated not only because their candidate got into office, but because Gabriel and company knew that the group would have a direct line to the president. Mike Pompeo as CIA director, as both are close allies of the group. Local ACT chapters organized a number of stops on his speaking tour.
To hold an event in a room at the Capitol requires the sponsor of an elected official. In more than a dozen states, ACT has helped introduce legislation to ban the use of Sharia law by state courts.
Such bans would prevent a Muslim prisoner from citing Islamic law to justify suing a state prison for not providing her Halal food. The organization has condemned cities with large Muslim populations for serving halal food in public schools. She wants to stigmatize, and to some degree criminalize, the practice of Islam. She also points out mistakes the West has made in underestimating the single-mindedness with which fundamentalist Islam has pursued its goals over the past thirty years.
They must be stopped : why we must defeat radical Islam and how we can do it by Brigitte Gabriel Book 8 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide [A]ddresses the historical and religious basis of radical Islam, its frightening encroachment into societies around the world, and its abuses of democracy in the name of religion.
Rise will empower you by: Providing a plan for preserving your values and freedoms before it's too late Educating you on how to identify behaviors and ideas that could threaten the local community and ultimately national security Motivating you to unite with other patriots who wish to preserve our endangered Judeo-Christian values and freedoms Helping you understand what you can do to fight the forces that aim to undermine our nation This book is critical to your family and your personal freedom.
Will you sit back and watch the greatest country our world has ever known slowly fade away? Or will you rise? They must be stopped : [why we must defeat radical Islam and how we can do it] by Brigitte Gabriel Recording 6 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Brigitte Gabriel has fearlessly faced down critics, death threats, and political correctness, and is one of the most sought after terrorism experts in the world. They Must Be Stopped is her clarion call to action.
Gabriel thoroughly addresses the historical and religious basis of radical Islam, its frightening encroachment into societies around the world, and its abuses of democracy in the name of religion. Because they hate : a survivor of Islamic terror warns America by Brigitte Gabriel Recording 3 editions published between and in English and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam.
In she was ten years old and living in Southern Lebanon when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against the Lebanese Christians, which became the first front in a worldwide jihad of fundamentalist Islam against non-Muslim peoples.
Twin Falls has no Syrian refugees. Police did not take two hours to respond. There was no evidence of a knife or a high-five. Grant Loebs, the chief criminal prosecutor for Twin Falls County, released a statement that similarly denied the rumors around the case.
This only helped to fan the flames. Every official correction or denial was seen either as evidence of a cover-up or, at minimum, a sign that the government was trying to downplay the significance of what had occurred, and the local press was now considered just as culpable. Local officials started receiving threats. They raised funds to move the family out of Fawnbrook. One Twin Falls resident bought them a car. Loebs, the county prosecutor, said he felt this crossed a line.
The coalition mobilizing around the Fawnbrook case was not limited to ACT for America — it included a handful of gun rights, libertarian, and other groups from the Magic Valley, as the stretch of southern Idaho around Twin Falls is known. Nevertheless, the accusations they leveled at local government had their unmistakable origin in the teachings of Gabriel and the anti-Islam lobby. At a City Council meeting on July 11, Ruf invited every member of the council to go see Gabriel speak at the high school auditorium.
Her arrival in the world, as she writes in Because They Hate , was destiny. Her mother, having been married and childless for 20 years, assumed she was barren, until one day in her mid-fifties she experienced symptoms of pregnancy. In , according to her account, a Palestinian militia bombed a military facility near Marjayoun, destroying her childhood home. Thus began the tribulations that Gabriel credits with shaping her worldview and that she describes, sometimes with varying details, in her books, speeches, and promotional materials.
Her saviors, Gabriel writes, were the Israelis, who invaded and occupied Lebanon in After her mother was injured and ended up in an Israeli hospital, Gabriel was amazed to find that doctors were treating Muslim people, their enemies. I wish you were all dead. And when you are unable to be grateful to the people who saved your life, you have no soul. Unlike Gabriel, when Haddad looks at the Lebanese civil war, she along with most scholars sees a conflict with an elaborate cocktail of sociopolitical causes, in which religion is only one ingredient.
Even the major player in what Gabriel describes as the radical Muslim side, the Palestine Liberation Organization, was composed mainly of secular socialist blocs. In the statement she provided for this story, Gabriel accused Lamb of fabricating his interviews and otherwise dismissed her skeptics.
Two years after the Israeli invasion, in , Gabriel moved to Jerusalem and took a job at Middle East Television, a news station owned by the Christian Broadcasting Network, itself owned by the famous American televangelist Pat Robertson.
As an evening news anchor, she adopted the name Nour Saman — the first of two name changes in her career. Gabriel says that everyone at the network had a pseudonym for security reasons. It is truly the clash of civilizations in its rawest form. The two married and, in , moved to the US and settled in Virginia Beach, where the Christian Broadcasting Network is headquartered and where, according to public records, they still live.
Years later, on Sept. From the rusted steel bridge that traverses the canyon, objects seem at once impossibly distant and perfectly clear. The effect is heightened by the fact that Twin Falls, unlike many small cities in Middle America, does not give the impression of being in trouble; absent, for the most part, are shuttered businesses, homeless people, or buildings in decay.
The federal government has been bringing refugees to Twin Falls since The resettlement program, based out of the College of Southern Idaho, is run by Zeze Rwasama, who is himself a refugee, having been displaced from what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the chaos that followed the Rwandan genocide. When he arrived in Idaho in , Rwasama said, the refugee center was operating quietly, with little to no controversy, as it had for three decades. Unusually low unemployment and comparatively high demand for agricultural labor made the Magic Valley region better equipped than most, he said, to accommodate a steady influx of refugees.
When I met him in his undecorated office in Twin Falls, Rwasama was wearing elaborate, pointy cowboy boots under jeans. Even though his department was a prime target of the anti-refugee movement, he had been watching the uproar with a sort of quiet bemusement. It comes with being a stranger in a new country — people feel like, why are we helping them?
Recently, though, Rwasama has begun to worry that the growing tension might do lasting damage to the community. I had arrived in Twin Falls expecting to hear about friction between locals and refugees, particularly Muslims, and I assumed this is what Rwasama was talking about.
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