Anti-Muslim Figure Brigitte Gabriel To Embark on Nationwide Tour in Support of New Book
Brigitte Gabriel is going on tour. The notorious anti-Muslim hate group leader will set out on a multi-city book tour spanning the next five months. She is expected to kick things off in Florida in late March.
Gabriel聽is founder and chairman of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America, the largest anti-Muslim group in the U.S. with a network of chapters across the nation. The group uses its expansive chapter network to organize rallies and lobby聽state lawmakers to introduce anti-Muslim legislation. Gabriel is a prolific figure in the anti-Muslim movement and has said Muslims are 鈥渁 natural threat to civilized people of the world, particularly Western civilization.鈥�
Gabriel鈥檚 upcoming tour is centered around promoting her third and latest book, Rise: In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom, released last September.
The book, among other things, stokes fears about the U.S.鈥� changing demographics聽and specifically warns against admitting non-Western, Muslim immigrants and refugees into the country. She writes, 鈥渁ll cultures are not equal鈥� and states: 鈥淚n the West we celebrate life. In the Islamic world they celebrate death.鈥�
Gabriel also writes that prior to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the United States was admitting immigrants 鈥渙verwhelmingly from countries far more likely to share our values and Western culture.鈥�
鈥淲hile the Left likes to brand this a racist historical policy,鈥� she writes, 鈥渋t would make sense for us to take in mostly Western hailing immigrants considering, you know, we鈥檙e a Western nation!鈥�
She adds that after 1965, 鈥淚t was no longer about who was most likely to assimilate and benefit America, but racial and religious diversity instead.鈥� Gabriel 聽diversity is just a 鈥減olitically correct鈥� term being exploited by America鈥檚 enemies.
Fearmongering about changing demographics features heavily in Rise. In one chapter, titled 鈥淩eplacement Civilization,鈥� Gabriel writes, 鈥淯nless the West wakes up to the fact that their culture and way of life is eroding through immigration from the Islamic world, the values of the Islamic world will soon overtake us.鈥�
As reported by Right Wing Watch, 听蹿辞谤 Rise lament a 鈥渕assive wave of third-world immigration has been engulfing America for half a century.鈥� Demographic alarmism is common among anti-Muslim, nativist and white nationalist circles.
Book tour audiences will experience what Gabriel calls a 鈥渘o holds barred speech on immigration, the left鈥檚 culture war, and radical Islam.鈥�
Gabriel is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump and claims聽to have a standing weekly meeting with his administration, where anti-immigrant groups have made substantial inroads. Last year, Trump advocated for more immigrants from Norway rather than Haiti or African countries, which he reportedly called 鈥渟hithole countries.鈥� In a closed-door meeting, Trump stated: 鈥淲hy do we want these people from all these shithole countries here? We should have more people from places like Norway.鈥�
As a candidate, Trump opined that 鈥淚slam hates us鈥� and called for 鈥渁 total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.鈥� ACT for America regularly Trump鈥檚 Muslim ban.
Hysteria around Muslim immigration is by no means confined to the U.S., and was a prevalent theme in the manifesto聽attributed to Brenton Tarrant, the accused mass shooter who killed 50 Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand last week. 鈥淢ass immigration will disenfranchise us, subvert our nations, destroy our communities, destroy our ethnic binds, destroy our cultures, destroy our peoples,鈥� he wrote.
These same views are espoused in the white nationalist movement. The responses聽from neo-Nazis and white nationalists to the heinous massacre in New Zealand underscore this. One user at the neo-Nazi website Stormfront聽who goes by the name 鈥淲oodkerne鈥� claimed a 鈥渞acial war is inevitable鈥� and stated: 鈥淭his will become the norm through our homelands. Some will say this is terrible and harms our cause. 鈥� Only violence and bloodshed will solve our problems in the long run.鈥�
ACT attracted聽various white nationalist and far-right groups to its national 鈥淢arch Against Sharia鈥� rallies in 2017, with anti-Muslim animus being the 听蹿补肠迟辞谤.
The ticketing service Eventbrite dropped Gabriel鈥檚 events from its website for violations of its Community Guidelines. 鈥淲e do not permit events, content, or creators that promote or encourage hate, violence, or harassment towards others and/or oneself,鈥� Eventbrite said in a statement.
The dates and cities scheduled so far include:
- March 27: Winter Springs, Florida
- March 28: Viera, Florida
- May 16: Long Island, New York
- July 11: Nashua, New Hampshire
- Aug. 1: Lake Zurich, Illinois
All of Gabriel鈥檚 upcoming speaking events are closed to the press and prohibit any 鈥渇ace coverings,鈥� according to ACT disclaimers.
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