Think of Lebanon today and immediately you envision war torn countryside, ravaged by the invasion of terrorist groups like Hezbollah. It has become another blob of country rammed into the conglomerate of a violent Middle East, impaled by Islamic fundamentalism and used as a shield for extreme terrorism. But that wasn’t always the case for this once free and prosperous nation.

Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese-American journalist, lived her first 10 years in a flourishing, open-bordered Lebanon, writhe with every kind of freedom, and full of international friendships from countries near and far. Lebanon was an empire of education, a haven for democracy, personal advancement, and opportunity—the Paris of the Middle East, some called it.

When a civil war erupted, Brigitte became a prisoner in her own country, residing in a bomb shelter for the next 10 years, evading the bullets and bombs of the first front in the worldwide jihad of militant Islam against the only Christian country in the Middle East. She survived to become a voice for Lebanon, Israel, and the West; a loud but lonesome cry against the terror now threatening to do to America what it did to her beloved Lebanon.

Islamic fundamentalism teaches followers to eradicate all other religions, by any means necessary. They rejoice in their own deaths more than we value our lives. Children are raised in submission to the absolutes of Islam’s righteousness, strangers to the notion of authentic freedom. The barbaric nature and hate education spreading rapidly through the Muslim world must be clearly revealed to those Westerners who refuse to find fault with another culture in a sentiment bursting with politically correct BS. It’s not about discriminating against another culture, it’s about healthy fear of an extremism. Many of you do not understand this war on terror, the intricacies of the enemy, who to believe. It’s simple: Believe the terrorists. If you believe no one else, believe them. They want to destroy Israel, then America, and strive for Islam to reign supremely. No barrier will cause re-evaluation of this goal.

Brigitte’s montage is this: “Evil prevails when good people to nothing.” Many Americans criticize those of us who condemn the evil aspects of radical Islam. The question is this: where are the voices of those Muslims who do not promote the brutalization of their religion? If this is not what Islam represents, why are they not abhorred by the mockery made of something so sacred? In the Middle East, it’s understandable. In America, there is nothing to be afraid of. You cannot separate the violence of the terrorist groups from the teachings of Islam, which calls to conquer the “infidels,” all those non-Muslim.

Peace talks, political correctness, elimination of racial profiling, no-torture policies, and benefit of the doubt when it comes to this intangible war against an undefined geography of people, are completely jaded ideas. Imagine identity tags, loudly displaying your religion when the terrorists have overtaken. Oh wait, does that sound familiar? Imagine clothing restrictions for women, severe punishments for simple religious mishaps. These are real possibilities. We may be a rationale, humanistic people. The extremists aren’t. Negotiation and passivity will calm no one. The idea that we have created more terrorists by fighting terrorism is absurd. It only seems that way because they are pissed that we are challenging them. They aren’t stupid and neither are we.

Some say they are sick of those on the right dramatizing, as if this were a threat to our way of life, as if it was actually possible that America won’t survive something like this. FINE. Get annoyed because someday needs to take this as seriously as it truly is. It’s so trendy to say Bush has failed and lied. Sure he’s made mistakes but he’s focused on the blatant reality of what could be 20-30 years from now and that is the war we are fighting right now. You can’t know all the good this administration has accomplished because there’s no footage of what’s been prevented by the, obviously effective, anti-terror policies.

A biased media doesn’t lend its citizens the truth to make a truly informed decision. Nobody noble in the Middle East can tell the truth, for fear of being killed. I’ll bet you didn’t know that terrorist cells reside in every major city in the United States, that radical Islam is spreading through American mosques weekly, that the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), heavily supported by the traitor-esque ACLU, has dozens of terrorist connections, that many American universities receive funding from foreign governments connected with terrorism. There’s a lot that no one is telling the American people.

Our civilization is at stake and we must be the eyes and ears of the government. America is so young that many don’t realize or naivety, the fragility of our foundation when it comes to these threats. While the UN is sitting around talking about sanctions, plans are being made to destroy Israel first and then America. The rest of the world is quietly sitting by and letting evil prevail. It’s ironic how people tell America to get out of Iraq and stop pushing their values on other countries, etc. but the next minute they want us in Sudan, or in North Korea to fix the next looming problem. When we get into those countries to try to start solving problems, we will soon be criticized again. Why? Because problems are not solved peacefully, this is not heavenly bliss and will never be. Wars have always been fought to overcome conflict; it’s just that now weapons are much more destructive. We can’t make any body do anything by pretending we’re all going to keep our promises. Obviously, North Korea didn’t.

Why is Islam itself so dangerous? More dangerous than Hitler or any other threat that has faced human existence? Because it is based truly on the spiritual, immortal calls of a twisted phenomenon. According to Gabriel, it is driven by the idealogy of bringing back the 12^th man and that 12^th man will come back when Islam reigns supremely. This means that Muslims can participate in the process of bringing back the savior. They live by an idealogy of death and that is something to which our nation simply cannot relate, but we MUST understand in order to combat it.