Who is Brigitte Gabriel?

August 2, 2006 9:48 AM

Brigitte Gabriel showed up in my inbox today. My links to the evangelical subculture have provided me with many icky moments but none more so than this. An acquaintance forwarded me (and 20 others) a cut and pasted article about a speech she made at Duke University outlining Muslim atrocities in Lebanon during the 70s and I'm curious about the woman. Obviously someone like this is a great spokesperson for those who think Islam is bent on world domination and the destruction of all infidels. And apparently she gets quite a few speaking engagements at universities as an "expert" on the Middle East. But who is she?

After a little googling, I see the same "speech" cut and pasted into dozens of conservative blogs. And her page on Wikipedia dates from just two weeks ago, with a bit of a revert war starting already. What's going on here?
posted by jmcnally (7 comments total)

But who is she? ... What's going on here?

Maybe you should Ask MetaFilter?
posted by jack_mo at 9:55 AM on August 2, 2006

Maybe a link to her speech on a blog would help further the discussion?
posted by Keith Talent at 9:55 AM on August 2, 2006

From wikipedia:

Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese Middle East journalist and founder of the American Congress For Truth a think tank that specialises on the conflicts in the Middle East.

Well, they're doing an incredible job, because god-damn if there aren't conflicts in the Middle East.
posted by boo_radley at 9:56 AM on August 2, 2006

Also what jack_mo said.
posted by boo_radley at 9:57 AM on August 2, 2006

"But who is she?"

So many answers...none of them appropriate....
posted by HuronBob at 10:01 AM on August 2, 2006

Confused. I thought my RSS feeds were all mixed up, I thought this was a digg article when I clicked on it.
posted by gsb at 10:08 AM on August 2, 2006

The Wikipedia vandalism begins.


posted by elmwood at 10:10 AM on August 2, 2006