A Lebanese Woman Who Deserves Scorn

Meet Brigitte Gabrielle:

Brigitte Gabriel bounced to the stage at a Tea Party convention last fall. She greeted the crowd with a loud Texas “Yee-HAW,” then launched into the same gripping personal story she has told in hundreds of churches, synagogues and conference rooms across the United States: As a child growing up a Maronite Christian in war-torn southern Lebanon in the 1970s, Ms. Gabriel said, she had been left lying injured in rubble after Muslims mercilessly bombed her village. She found refuge in Israel and then moved to the United States, only to find that the Islamic radicals who had terrorized her in Lebanon, she said, were now bent on taking over America.

If only those who profiled her in the New York Times know what a laughing stock she is here in Lebanon. But why blame her? She’s just exhibiting typical Lebanese business opportunism: She noticed there’s a market in the USA for her wildly exaggerated storyline and has embarked on a relentless campaign to sell her product. Buy one “Muslims Are Evil”, get one “Muslim are Christian hating Misogynists” for free..