They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It

By Brigitte Gabriel

They Must Be Stopped is New York Times bestselling author Brigitte Gabriel's warning to the world: We can no longer ignore the growth of radical Islam–we must act soon, and powerfully.

Drawing from seventh-century teachings, Gabriel probes into how fundamentalist Islam, under the guise of religious liberty, perpetuates hatred towards western values while exploiting the U.S. legal system.

This crucial work takes a hard look at madrassas, flagging their surge in America as part of a rising radical army on U.S. soil. Gabriel fearlessly critiques an overbearing climate of political correctness that often stifles candid discussions about radical Islam. She passionately advocates that America must shed its restraint, questioning its complacency towards this growing internal threat, and demand its representatives to take protective action.

Delving into its religious and historical basis, the encroachments across the globe, and systemic abuses of democracy in the name of religion, They Must Be Stopped serves as a clarion call to the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Sep 2, 2008
• ISBN: 9781429931731

Brigitte Gabriel

Brigitte Gabriel is a US-based journalist and news producer who started her career as an anchor for World News, an evening Arabic news program. As a terrorism expert and the founder of the nonprofit organization ACT! for America, Brigitte Gabriel travels widely and speaks regularly on topics related to the Middle East. She has addressed audiences at the FBI, the United States Special Operations Command, the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Joint Forces Staff College, among others. She is the author of Because They Hate and They Must Be Stopped.

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In memory of

Krystyna Bublick

my dearest friend

She was a passionate activist, a light in a world of darkness, a patriotic American who embodied the best of what America had to offer. She was a courageous fighter who stood on her principles. She spoke against evil and understood what is at stake. She was a source of profound encouragement, and a champion to those who could not defend themselves. With profound sadness for her loss and joy for the privilege of calling her my best friend, I dedicate this book in her loving memory.

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Introduction

1. Islam 101: The East Through Western Eyes

2. Islamic Terrorism: Then and Now

3. Purists Drink Their Islam Straight

4. The Muslim Brotherhood Project for North America

5. Madrassas in America and Abroad

6. Reviving the Caliphate: One World Nation Under Allah; Supersizing the Muslim World

7. The Islamization of Europe

8. The Subtle Islamization Agenda: Boiling the West Alive

9. Islam’s Contempt for Women and Minorities

10. Tolerance: A One-Way Street

11. Rising in Defense of Democracy

12. Winning the War on Islamofascism: Strategies and Tactics

A Note of Thanks

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Introduction

Millions of civilized people have been shaken to their core as they continue to absorb the news stories grabbing headlines around the world. A mother and father flying from England to the United States fill their six-month-old baby’s milk bottle with explosives, turning the child into a human bomb, in hopes of killing hundreds by blowing up their plane in midair.¹ Doctors driving highly explosive car bombs into the same hospitals in which they practice, bent on killing the same patients they treated the night before and killing the same colleagues they sipped coffee with the previous morning.² Students born, bred, and educated in Western colleges, driven by a holy Islamic mission, plotting to kill their teachers, government leaders, and employers.³ What will be the next story of an attack against the civilized world to assail our moral conscience?

Islamic terrorist attacks on innocent civilians is not an issue of the right or left. It cannot be classified as an American, British, French, Australian, Canadian, Iraqi, or Pakistani issue. It is an international issue and a problem affecting the basis of Western civilization. Islamic terrorism threatens the safety and security of millions around the world regardless of the passport we hold, the nation we reside in, the language we speak, or the currency we exchange. The modern world is a global community that works together to invent, advance, exchange, grow, and prosper for the benefit of all. Islamic radicals are working against the goals of the global community. They consider their seventh-century repressive ideology supreme, and are trying to impose it on as many nations as they can.

The threat of Islamic terrorism has already cost the civilized world billions of dollars in security provisions, countless hours of inconvenience and delay, and immeasurable work to institute programs and procedures to protect the civilian population. Security measures at airports are extensive wherever you are—New York, Sidney, London, Paris, Madrid, Toronto or Tel-Aviv. Every person who travels is aware of this threat.

The initial Islamic war Mohammed declared on the infidels—the original Islamic war—has reemerged and is ramping up its attacks on freedom-loving people. As I recounted in my book Because They Hate, while growing up in Lebanon I witnessed and experienced the horror and terror this neo-jihad wreaks on civilians, nations, and societies. After having lived in a bomb shelter for seven years, and having seen most of my childhood friends killed by Islamic militants, I understand from firsthand experience the chilling implications of this original jihad inspired by the Prophet Mohammed. This call to jihad is a declaration of war that is reverberating throughout an emboldened Muslim world. Its historically proven implications can be ignored only at our own peril.

This declaration of war has not come from nationals of a particular country. They owe allegiance only to Mohammed’s original ideology. They represent no country. They do not wear the uniforms of a country’s armed forces. They are doctors dressed in white, mothers and fathers with babies wrapped in blankets, or students wearing jeans. They exhibit a ruthless and brutal disregard for any rules of war that speak to the treatment of civilians. The reason is simple: according to the original Islam of Mohammed, there are no innocent civilians. Radical Islamists consider all people—in or out of military uniform—who do not believe in the original Islam of Mohammed, to be the enemy until they convert or are subject to Islamic law.

This is why they must be stopped.

These Islamists’ devotion to the ideology of true Islam has become legendary. Even so-called moderate Muslims, who don’t agree with these jihadists’ devotion to the purest form of Islam or their terror tactics, respect their passion and commitment. It is this very passion and devotion that is causing the ranks of original Islam to swell, especially with younger Muslims. The imams, clerics, and mullahs who exhort Muslims to take up the cause of jihad do so in absolutely uncompromising terms, calling on devoted Muslims everywhere to lay down their very lives for Allah and the spread of Islam.

They are tenacious, determined, and relentless. They believe that the abandonment of the Islam of Mohammed, with its central tenet of jihad, has led to the weakening of Islamic culture. They are committed to worldwide conquest as the means of restoring Islamic superiority. They view this war in terms of decades, not years, and they’re willing to fight as long as it takes.

This is why they must be stopped.

Twenty-first-century technology has empowered this army of fanatical true believers. Instantaneous global communication and rapid international transportation have made possible the proliferation of terrorist cells throughout the world. These cells use the Internet as a recruiting and training tool, making it a virtual terrorist training camp, to spread their radical ideology of hatred and terror across boarders, oceans, and countries.

This is why they must be stopped.

They are utterly contemptuous of all infidels (non-Muslims) and even moderate Muslims. They believe it is their right and duty to lie and deceive, as instructed in the Koran by the law of Taqiyya, all whom they regard as enemies. Any means, no matter how devious, cruel, or violent, is justified for the sake of the advancement of their cause. This deception has been perpetrated by doctors, mothers, engineers, news anchors, lawyers, and many others, in order to kill and be killed as martyrs in the name of Allah.

This is why they must be stopped.

Radical Islam has been referred to as Islamofascism, and rightly so. It is totalitarian and authoritarian. Its leaders advocate the overthrow of democratic governments and law because this ideology respects no government or rule of law except the rule of strict Islamic Sharia law. The rights and liberties of free peoples, as expressed in documents such as the United States’ Declaration of Independence, will be completely eradicated if this ideology prevails.

This is why they must be stopped.

They regard the destabilization of governments and economies as a necessary means to the accomplishment of their goals. Death, destruction, and chaos are welcome allies in the jihadist march toward world conquest and the forced imposition of Sharia law. They delight in the devastation they would unleash in the name of Allah were they to acquire and successfully detonate chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.

This is why they must be stopped.

The civilized world has witnessed a jihad such as this before. In the centuries following the death of Mohammed, Islamic marauders swept across Africa, Asia Minor, and into Europe. By the time of the Crusades (a defensive counterattack by Christendom against the jihadist onslaught), Islam had conquered much of the civilized world.

Too many people dismiss the prospect of a worldwide jihad occurring again. In doing so, they misunderstand the ideology of original Islam or naïvely underestimate its resolve. Political correctness has literally paralyzed many in government and created an atmosphere in which fear of being called intolerant or an Islamophobe trumps concerns over safeguarding our lives and liberties. Were we living in a time when weapons of mass destruction did not exist and global transportation was virtually impossible, a misread of this enemy might be excusable.

But we don’t live in such a time. If an Islamic radical is willing to put children in his car, buckle them in, fill the car with explosives, use the children as props to deceive soldiers at a security checkpoint, and then detonate the bomb—with the children still in the car—what makes anyone believe such a radical would hesitate to detonate a nuclear bomb if he had the chance?

Radical Muslims exploit the liberties America affords them as they plan to abolish those same liberties.⁴ To gain widespread appeal in America, they cloak themselves in the garb of moderation and take advantage of America’s freedom of religion. But among their own, in the West or in the Middle East, prominent extremist leaders sponsor hate rallies and demonstrations, exhort followers to kill, publish racist and anti-Semitic tracts, and aspire to transform the United States into a Muslim nation.⁵ They invoke academic and religious freedoms to divert unwanted attention from their efforts to convert American youth—Muslim and non-Muslim alike—to their radical agenda.⁶ Moreover, they are working to indoctrinate juvenile delinquents, gang members, and convicts in the ideology of jihad.⁷ Radical Islamic chaplains are even found in the U.S. military, attempting, with some success, to brainwash our soldiers.⁸ The Muslim cleric upon whom the media, schools, churches, synagogues, and civic organizations call to lecture on the peaceful, benign nature of jihad may well represent an extremist organization whose true allegiances are to known, international terrorist organizations.⁹

Radical Islam teaches that no government has the right to exist unless it obeys the Sharia, and that Muslims must wage war against those that do not—even if those governments are run by Muslims.¹⁰ Closely allied to this radical ideology is an ancient chain of grievances that stem from the substitution of man-made law for the law of Allah. These grievances began more than a thousand years ago with the Crusades.¹¹ They also include Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt,¹² the post–World War I redivision of the Middle East by France and England, the birth of the state of Israel, and the two Gulf wars.¹³ Envy and resentment of the West’s material, intellectual, scientific, and economic superiority—in vivid contrast to the squalor, illiteracy, and oppression that mark so much of the Muslim world—are no small factors in this resentment and hatred toward the infidel West. It is this list of grievances that drives the neo-jihadist declaration of war.

Radical Islam continues to itemize its grievances against the West and seeks to eliminate all manifestations of Western civilization. It targets much of Western art, music, literature, entertainment, and culture, which is perceived to be morally corrupt and socially bankrupt. Radical Islam’s real and potential victims include Muslims and non-Muslims, individuals as well as entire nations, who have embraced or are influenced by the West.

Radical Islamists believe in an ideology based on the Koran, in which Islamic law should govern all matters of state and family and Islam is the superior religion on earth. Alongside this notion is the presumption that the purity and perfection of Islam, a religion that originated in the seventh century A.D., has been corrupted by decadent Western ideas (such as secularism) that have sapped the political and economic strength that the Muslim Umma, or worldwide Islamic community, should rightly have. The Islamists’ mission is to restore Islam to its original purity by reasserting its political and social preeminence. The drive for global conquest, a never-ending jihad, and the subjugation of infidels are inherent to Islam itself, and are found in core Islamic theological and legal traditions.¹⁴ Although these ideas are not adhered to by all Muslims, they are primary motivations of the radicals.

Whether or not radical Islam can or should be viewed as a phenomenon distinct and separate from the Islam practiced by the vast majority of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims is an important question. The answer has a great deal to do with how radical Muslims are recruiting new members, and how that recruitment can be stopped. For Americans of all political persuasions, however, the question of radical Islam versus moderate Islam should be considered secondary. We, as infidels in the eyes of our enemy, need to understand the danger we face: A totalitarian ideology—whether its origin is mainstream or marginal—threatens to enslave, dominate, and murder us in order to realize its vision for global conquest. Moreover, its ultimate aims are indistinguishable from other deadly utopian fantasies such as fascism, Nazism, and communism. Each pretends to resolve all human issues once and forevermore. But, in their perfect finality, they assure us only of death.¹⁵

Muslim tyrants, unleashing radical Islamic movements by teaching intolerance, bigotry, and death to infidels from their mosques and pulpits, use the Koran itself to transform their masses into enraged mobs thirsting for the blood of the outsider. Radical Islam’s ideology of hatred and violence leads to the moral, spiritual, and mental degradation of its own followers. It advocates murder as an ideology, and justifies cold-blooded criminality against its victims.¹⁶ Children living in radical Islam’s shadow imbibe its ideology from their religious teachings, their clergy, their media, their leaders—even their families.¹⁷ Those Muslims who kill the most are revered the most.¹⁸

Radical Islam places all Muslims in jeopardy. Radical Islamic violence is rampant in the Muslim world.¹⁹ Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been slaughtered for their failure to conform to the demands of the radicals. In Algeria alone, where decapitating teachers or slitting throats in front of students is not uncommon, radical Islamic violence has claimed the lives of upwards of 150,000 Muslims over the last ten years.²⁰ ²¹ Wearing Western attire justifies summary execution. Women are slaughtered or mutilated for exposing their hair. Entire villages have been wiped out by radical Islamic violence.²² Egypt suffers from the same affliction: more than 60,000 people there have been brutally murdered and maimed by radical Muslims.²³ These are just two examples that show how the deadly nature of radical Islam affects not only infidels in the West but also Muslims and Muslim nations.

Radical Islam is motivated by a rage and hatred so profound that the temptation to kill persists even after it has achieved its supposed purpose. Gaining political power in a single state does not satisfy radical Islamists; they seek to transform the societies they govern. Think of the Taliban who, for a time, triumphed in Afghanistan. After taking control of the government, they turned their wrath on the local population, murdering, brutalizing, and terrorizing the Afghan people, in order to impose conformity with their own set of Islamic standards. They also set their sights on the rest of the world, recruiting holy warriors from abroad and training them to wreak havoc elsewhere.²⁴ Think of Iran. The success of the Iranian revolution did not satisfy its leaders. The Republic of Iran has been an exporter of terrorism from its inception; its creation, Hezbollah, does its work abroad by proxy. Moreover, the Iranian government maintains its power through terror. Gruesome public executions and torture are effective reminders of one’s utter impotence under a ruthless, corrupt regime.²⁵

The West is still seeking the answer to radical Islam’s three riddles: What can we do so that they will not hate us? So that they will stop attacking us? So that they will not want to destroy us?

If we grant concessions, will radical Islam forgo the opportunity to kill us? We have already granted it numerous strategic advantages. We allow radical Islam to use Western societies as a haven and a base for terrorist activity. We allow it to infiltrate Western universities, where it raises funds for terrorist front organizations.²⁶ We allow it to use Western media as its mouthpiece by their labeling terrorists as militants or freedom fighters with a cause.²⁷ At radical Islam’s behest, we pressure Israel into ceding territory in exchange for peace.²⁸ But despite all this, radical Islam has not curbed its murderous ambitions.²⁹ Why should we believe that further concessions will not whet its appetite for more?

Radical Islam understands its adversary well. It knows that the West hungers for harmony, for resolution, for approval. It also understands our humanistic impulses—our tendency to employ reason and logic in the quest for solutions to thorny issues—and that we unwisely attribute those same impulses to our enemy. It also understands that we prefer to appease an intractable foe rather than to confront it—a weakness that radical Islam exploits without mercy.³⁰

In our efforts to appease radical Islam, we accept the blame for its iniquities, or blame them on Israel. We pressure Israel to offer land for peace, naïvely assuming that radical Islam will stop thirsting for our own blood. But history teaches otherwise: appeasement through territorial concession only strengthens the aggressor. In the run-up to World War II, Hitler understood this principle far better than did Chamberlain. The British prime minister served up Czechoslovakia to his German counterpart in exchange for peace, only to be repaid with war.³¹

But there is an even more dangerous lesson that appeasement teaches. It tells our enemy that there is no need to compromise with us. Whether in Israel, Spain, or Britain, appeasement hands radical Islam all the cards and says that we will play by its rules, that concessions will come from our side.

Radical Islam is confident that ultimately it will destroy us. It seeks to exploit our weaknesses and undermine our strengths. And not only has it captured the minds and hearts of countless followers in the Muslim world, it has also inserted itself in Western countries. Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, and Islamic Jihad all have representation in North and South America, Australia, and throughout Europe.³²

Radical Islam is waging jihad against us all. This jihad is not uniformly violent: radical Islam has also encroached upon Western societies peacefully, often with their unwitting acquiescence. The West’s tolerance and openness afford radical Islam ample opportunities for unimpeded expansion. Radical Islam has achieved astonishing success in the West simply because it has encountered no significant opposition. It will continue to grow and accumulate power and influence unless thwarted.

I hope that this book will inspire people everywhere to mount meaningful political opposition to jihad. There is still time to stop it. To do so, responsible citizens must expose the influence of radical Islam in media, government, politics, and education. Each and every one of us has been summoned to play a role in the conflict between the forces of chaos and civilization. Only in this way can we limit the reach of radical Islam.

It’s because I know and understand this enemy so well that I have determined to devote my life to standing against him. It’s why I’ve founded ACT! for America, to inform and mobilize American citizens to defend themselves against this very real and dangerous threat. It’s why I speak around the world, ringing alarm bells before it’s too late.

Wherever we live, we can and we must stop the rising tide of Islamofascism. We must understand who this enemy is, how he thinks and operates, and how he exploits our weaknesses to achieve his ends. We must then use every legitimate means at our disposal to fight back.

We must educate and inform everyone about this enemy. We must effectively organize at the grass-roots level, to create a unified voice that says enough to political correctness, that demands that government officials and elected representatives do what is necessary to protect us from this scourge. We must win the public relations battle, so that in the court of public opinion Islamofascism will rightly be judged guilty of the crimes it is perpetrating against humanity. And, when necessary, we must insist that our governments use armed force so that we may win this war.

We must resist this enemy because our very lives and liberty depend on it.

They must be stopped.

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Islam 101: The East Through Western Eyes

While I was growing up in Lebanon, I was able to see what the United States and the Western world was all about. Radio and television connected me to the West. I knew what the latest trends and fashions were, who was famous, what was in and was out. Radio gave us the news and TV was loaded with American programming. However, there has always been a lack of information coming from East to West. In fact, there has been a great deal of misinformation and misunderstanding about the Middle East over the centuries. Shrouded in a language foreign to many, its heavily censored media controlled and influenced by Islamic leaders and dictators, the mystery continues to this day.

Westerners do not understand Middle Eastern culture, its religion, Islam, and how Islam as a political and religious ideology drives and impacts every aspect of the culture and its people. Westerners come from a Judeo-Christian background, where the teaching of faith centers on love, tolerance, and forgiveness. They do not understand that the sword of Islam—so glamorized on film—represents hatred, intolerance, murder, and the subjugation of anyone not Muslim.

The West’s perception of the mysterious Middle East began to come into focus during the past forty years with the rise of the PLO and Ayatollah Khomeini. The world watched one terror attack after another: the 1971 Munich Olympic massacre, the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombing of the marines in Lebanon, the Achille Lauro hijacking and murders, the Pan Am flight that exploded over Scotland, TWA flight 847, and the killing and taking of hostages in Lebanon. At every airport security checkpoint and with every X-ray machine, the crackdown on security at airports drove the dangers home. Terrorism began to be a recognizable problem—but not really in the forefront of our minds. Countries and governments failed to connect the dots and realize that even though these terrorist attacks happened in different countries and an different continents, the perpetrators, regardless of their names or what

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Islam can never be stopped to spread. Even Mongols who were so dangerous could not stop the spread of Islam.

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