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Abraham Hamilton III Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. My name is Abraham Hamilton iii. Thank you for tuning into the program and as you've done all throughout the week and all the years we've been on the air here, it is a privilege to join you on a daily basis. We are here in studio. I'm accompanied by producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mac. And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome and through which you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to remind you, as I do on a regular basis, what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. here we have most recently the White House has signed the bill to reopen the government. which is the, which was the product of political shenanigans driven by Democrats who tried to hold. Not tried to, who held the country hostage because Obamacare was never affordable from the beginning. In fact it was designed to be unaffordable. But they wanted to try to make political, make a political grandstanding gesture in order to. And you heard their own party members tell you, well, this was our leverage point. So all of the hand wringing and oh, we want people to get there. They're down with ebt. Yeah, you know me, you know Snap, yeah, you know me. And all of this stuff that they were talking about that they don't, they, they don't care about, that they're willing to use it for their advantage. So they perceive for political purposes. And just let me say, the government reopening is just going to continue with the COVID current continuing resolution until January. So we'll be back with the same issue brought before us in January and it is important for the American people to pay attention to that because will we have another episode where temper tantrums over Obamacare subsidies. Subsidies will transpire there's, there is a vote. Republicans agreed to vote on the enhanced subsidies, but it's very unlikely that they will pass. So what's going to happen in January?
What goes on in your home is more important than what happens in Washington
But, but before we get to any of that, and beyond any of that, what goes on in your house is more important because you do not have the capacity to directly impact that, but you do have the ability to, to directly impact, and I would add, the responsibility to directly impact what transpires in your home. So at this very moment, as you are making your transition, you must, I must, we all must do so with intentionality. Well, I'll be making mine a little later once I get off there. But, we must do so with intentionality because we're not going to outvote. We're not going to out politicians, we're not going to out Supreme Court opinion. We're not going to out Rule 22, filibuster rule. We're not going to house majority, Senate majority, house minority, Senate minority. Deficiencies that abound in the home. That's just the truth. Those things are significant. Those things are important. We need people on the front lines in those areas. But if we have people serving in those capacities. But there is a continued negligence, a continued ignorance and a continued refusal to do what God requires of us in our homes. Guys, those things are, become nothing more than window dressing. And I will continue to ask this question rhetorically. How long do we expect a wicked populace to endure righteous leadership when that populace has the prerogative, the constitutional prerogative, to select its own servant leaders? What quality, what kind of servant leaders do you think will be selected when we have an increasingly wicked populace? We have to put into practice what God calls us to. Making disciples is not merely, This is a church growth strategy. No, no, no, no, no. Making disciples is a vehicle through which God establishes his kingdom. And because the American experiment in individual liberty flows directly from the truth in scripture, directly from the revelation of the imago, the reality of the imago dei, directly from some of the. Some of the revelations articulated throughout the Protestant Reformation. Because our nation flows, has been constructed directly from that. Guess what our nation. Nation needs in order to maintain and to continue this, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, a republic. If you can keep it. Guess what's needed to keep the republic. A, people who are self governed as a fruit of the spirit of God which indwells the regenerate. That is what we need. We need more believers to populate our nation. We need more people who have a biblical worldview we need more people who will fill out what Proverbs 14 tells us in verse 34. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. To the word of God we go.
Proverbs chapter 3, verses 1 through 8 is where we go
Proverbs chapter 3. Proverbs chapter 3, verses 1 through 8 is where I'm going to go. And I want you to notice something as we navigate the Scripture. I'm going to read it first and then we'll talk through it a little bit. Proverbs chapter 3, verse 1. My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments. For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart so you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your paths, or he will make your path straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. Here the proverb writer articulates a view that is consistent throughout Scripture. In verse one, when it says, my son, do not forget my teaching. You can really put our nation in this point America. Do not forget my teaching. Well, verse one explains is that you have the conveyance of wisdom utilizing as a framework the Father son relationship, where the Father is representative of the Heavenly Father. but the Son has been provided with robust teaching and instruction. And the Father adds to that robust teaching and instruction the admonition, don't forget what I've taught you. This is a sobering and gripping articulation and expression because the reality exists that one who's been the beneficiary of robust godly counsel and instruction, it is not an automatic that that beneficiary will retain that instruction. Hence the exhortation here. Don't forget my teaching. Don't forget what you've learned. Don't forget what I've taught you guys. In many ways, we're living in a moment right now in our country where what is being displayed collectively is the fact that, generationally we've forgotten the teaching of the Lord. We've abandoned that instruction. The reality exists that one can be presented with robust, godly, eternity based, biblically anchored guidance and instruction, and that the one to whom that guidance and instruction was provided can become conveniently forgetful of their guidance. And instruction, but it's not the Lord's will for that to be our experience, guys. Hence the admonition, do not forget my teaching.
Heeding the Lord's instruction, refusing to forget it has eternal benefit
Then verse two conveys something that should be jolting for us as well as encouraging for us. Because very often, and I talk about it a lot and I reflect on it a lot, I think about what it's going to be like in the tangible presence of God, in the eternal state with all of the saints throughout human history, where there will be no need for a son because the presence of God is so radiant. I reflect on it often. I, talk about it often. This scripture highlights the reality that heeding the Lord's instruction, refusing to forget the heavenly Father's teaching and instruction, embracing the gospel of Christ Jesus and repentance and faith, it has eternal benefit. Absolutely. But guess what? It also hasn't has temporal benefit. Verse 2 says, the refusal to forget the teachings of the Father result in length of days and years of life and peace being added to you. It's very similar to what you have and for example in Exodus and recounted again in Deuteronomy, when the Lord commanded and Moses received God's commands, Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that your God has provided for you. In the New Testament, the apostle Paul echoes that exact same command in Ephesians, chapter six. And then he adds, this is the first commandment with promise. There have been many times growing up in New Orleans, I would have conversations with families when I would say, you may not realize, but one of the most potent ways to short circuit your life is to refuse to honor your father and mother. One of the tried and true ways to short circuit your ability to enjoy what God has provided is by refusing to honor your father and mother. Here the proverb writer is communicating something very similarly in that submission to God's Word has benefit for us in the here and now. It is eternally beneficial, and it is temporally beneficial. And the corollary is true. The corresponding implication is true. Refusing to heed the Lord's Word is detrimental to us temporally. And if you reject the free gift of salvation eternally, the text goes on, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you, but bind them on your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, so you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man. It echoes a similar verse, when a man's ways please the Lord, even his enemies will be at peace with him. Yes, they're still enemies, but they won't have a ground or basis upon which to assert perpetual hostilities towards you. So the result, the net result is that even his enemies will be at peace with you. And that is a spectrum. Even his enemies would be at peace associates, those that may not like you that much, but they can't do nothing about it. Loved ones, etc. And it goes on down the line. Then we get to verse 5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. See all of these things flow in the direction toward verse five. For refusing to forget the Father's teachings, keeping his commandments treasuring them in our hearts. It's like bank vaults. Banks have vaults because they want to protect the most valuable assets they have. Our hearts should be vaults for the Lord's commands, the Lord's Word, Biblical instruction. Our heart should be vaults there, which is what the Scriptures indicated when it says, but let your heart keep my commandments. Again, it is true that we can be around the fount of knowledge from wisdom and understanding and yet not treasure it sufficiently. And so we simply trifle away the life giving virtue that God's word is and what God's word produces in us. Back to verse five. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. And do not lean on your own understanding. We all have been made in God's image. We have understanding. But the Scripture's admonition is to us. Refuse to allow that to be the thing that governs our engagement. We surrender and submit our understanding to the wisdom of God. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make your path straight. I've explained before the word for acknowledge there is yada. Some might think that text is saying provide mental assent to God's existence. And that is not what he's saying at all. The word yada literally means to carry forward into every occurrence and future occurrence the reality of the full scope, breadth, depth and height of who God is, and welcoming that to govern your engagement in the various circumstances. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, Turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. Christ following has eternal benefit and temporal benefit as well.
Brigitte Gabrielle A, discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
Joseph Parker Prayerlessness. What exactly is prayerlessness? Well, that's the failure to really pray as we should. When we don't pray, we can miss things God is saying to us and God is doing in and around us. When we don't pray, we miss blessings God very much wants us to have. It's, a challenging area of life for probably many, if not most believers. The failure to pray. You know, the word of God tells us in First Thessalonians, chapter 5, it says, Pray without ceasing. Well, how in the world do we really do that? Well, keep in mind, God wouldn't tell us to do something we could not do. God tells us time and time again to do things that we can only do in his wisdom, in his power, and in his grace. Now I want to say and challenge every listener to really think about this. It's important that we live a life full of prayer.
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Abraham Hamilton III welcomes Brigitte Gabrielle to the Hamilton Corner
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. I'm delighted to have on the program a woman who I admire, I love her work, enjoy all that she is doing and has done. She's been on the show before, but it's been a while since we have had, have had her on, so I'm grateful to have her on today. I'm speaking of none other than Ms. Brigitte Gabrielle, National Security analyst, New York Times best selling author and chairman of act for America. Her latest bestseller is Rise, Rise. And I have the subtitle right here. Wait a minute. There we go. In defense of Judeo Christian values and freedom, Ms. M. Brigitte Gabrielle, thank you for joining me here on the Hamilton Corner.
Brigitte Gabrielle Thank you. I'm delighted to be back with you.
Abraham Hamilton III Oh, it is truly my pleasure. And I am completely confident that our audience will be blessed by the time we spend here together.
Ms. Gabrielle says we need to stand up for Judeo Christian values
today. I wanted to jump right into it. we've seen some pretty significant events develop in our own nation lately, with the most recent being the election of the Islamist in New York City, Zoran Mamdani. Then, you had, Omar Fattah, who ran for mayor but didn't win, but came pretty close in, thank God, Minneapolis. That's right. then you had the phenomenon of Islamic majorities in Dearborn, Michigan, I believe Shiite, predominantly. And in Hamtramck, Michigan where you had the mayor in Dearborn to tell a local Christian resident that, hey, you're not welcome here. what do you see happening in our country and with your background and your experiences and we can get into that however you want to go with that. what do you see happening in our country and does it seem to have a familiar ring to what we've seen throughout history around the world and what you've experienced personally?
Brigitte Gabrielle Well, this is a scary thing for me because I see my past in America's future, unless America wakes up today. I was born and raised in the country of Lebanon, which used to be Christian country. In my lifetime, I have seen the transformation of Lebanon from a majority Christian country to not only a majority Islamic country, but to a terrorist country. One of the biggest terrorist players in the world who harbored one of the most lethal terrorist organization in the world, Hezbollah. Hezbollah committed terrorist attacks in four continents across the globe. So what starts in the Middle east doesn't stay in the Middle east right now. What we are witnessing, we are witnessing the spread and the infiltration of Islamists coming out of the Middle east and spreading all over the world, bringing with them their ideology, their customs, their traditions, their, faith and enforcing their faith and their habits and their traditions of the countries that they left and came to the United States so they can escape. They are enforcing that now down our throat. So they want the best of what America has to offer. What they came here for, the prosperity, the freebies, the benefits of the United States, the Social Security checks, the Medicare, Medicaid, or whatever it is that they get, the free health care, free this, free that. If you cannot make enough, money, we're going to give you snap, we're going to give you food stamps, we're going to even give you free housing, and if you can't qualify even for a free cell phone. So they want all the freebies that our freedoms enables us to give to our people, to our citizens, to take care of them. Now, they're coming from these countries and they are trying to shove. Not trying, they are shoving down our throat all these bad things that they left. And that's why Americans need to wake up right now. Not just talk about it, not just think, oh, my gosh, we've got a problem. But think, okay, one, we need to develop the backbone to say what needs to be said. And we need to organize, mobilize, and engage our citizens to stand up and say, you're gonna lose your country unless you become engaged today.
Abraham Hamilton III So, well said. And I didn't even mention that the things we mentioned. We're witnessing the genocide in Nigeria, the persecution in Sudan of Christians, the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, the persecution in Sudan, the, Democratic Republic of Congo. It's happening all over the world and it's being brought to our domestic shores. you mentioned that we need to wake up right now and develop the backbone to say what needs to be said. So, Ms. Gabrielle, what needs to be said.
Brigitte Gabrielle Well, one, we need to call evil by its name, evil. We need to stand up for our Judeo Christian values and say, look, these values these Islamists are bringing with them to our country are not American values. They are not the values that made our country great. As a matter of fact, their values are the values that keep their countries as a third world country. Their values are the ones that are oppressed, oppressing individual rights, oppressing women. 50% of their societies are, basically, do not produce anything, do not contribute anything. Women who are oppressed in their society. This is not how we operate. We do not want Sharia law in the United States. You want to practice your Sharia law, you stay where you are. You can immigrate to Saudi Arabia, you can immigrate to Indonesia, you can immigrate to Egypt. You can go stay in your own region in the world. You don't need to come to Canada and freeze your neck off, or come to Minnesota and freeze your neck off, from Somalia. If people like Ilhan Omar, for example, and this Fatah guy who ran for mayor and lost, thank God, you know, did not like Somalia so much. Why are they living, you know, or they're pledging their allegiance to Somalia, campaigning in Somali instead of campaigning in English. Why are they here? They can go back to Somalia. So the first thing, we need to identify the problem and start speaking up about it. And the second thing is we need to start organizing in our own communities, creating groups in our own communities that impact our elected officials who make the decisions that affect us. Look, it is our elected official that decide how many refugees get deposited in your state. It's your elected officials that approve the funding for these refugees that m are deposited in your state. And so we need to impact those decisions. And that's why my organization, act for America, and I encourage everybody if my message resonates with you. Go right now to act for america.org and join us. Start a chapter in your community. If you have five friends who believe the same way you do, get together. Start a group. We will connect you with other people in your state and in your city who are members of our organization, who share our concern, who will work with you, that will grow your chapter where you can impact your local policy. We monitor bills coming down for a vote at the federal level and the state level, and we notify you about these bills coming down for a vote. So make sure you are signed up to receive our emails and action alerts. Start a chapter in your Community. If you already have a group up and going, make sure you register your group with our organization so we can come behind you, we can lift you up, we can support you, we can give you our resources, we can give you our technology that will help you mobilize in your own community. That's how we can make a difference.
Abe and Brigitte say overwhelming majority of Muslims are nonviolent
Abraham Hamilton III M, man, it's so profound you speak so powerfully to this point is a question I'm going to present to you now. because many people will say, well Abe and Brigitte, you guys are talking about this, but the overwhelming majority of Muslims are nonviolent. it's really only a minority that is violent. What would you say to the person who would present to you the notion that the majority are not violent? In terms of those who are, are Islamic practitioners?
Brigitte Gabrielle I agree with them. I agree with them 100%. But these are not the ones we are worried about. These are not the ones. On 9 11, 2001 we had 2.3 million Muslims, peaceful, moderate Muslims living in the United States. It took only 19 radicals to bring the World Trade center down, kill 3,000Americans and bring America down on its knees. Our air traffic control, our air traffic came to a shrieking halt. Our stock market plummeted and stopped, literally stopped. We were paralyzed not by the 2.3 million but by 19 people. When you look at the radicals who drive the agenda all throughout the world, it doesn't matter where they are. The ones, the passionate, who are impacting the lives of millions of people. And we cannot allow that to happen in our country. And this is why I say 2% of the passionate will always overrule than 98% indifferent. And this is why we need to organize. We're not organizing against those who want to come assimilate. We're not organizing against those who are peaceful people who want to come to this nation, who want to be a part of the American fabric, who want to contribute to America, who want to become taxpayers who are going to support our society, who are going to create jobs, employ Americans. This is what immigrants did for the last 300 years who came to this country, myself included. I am a first generation immigrant from the Middle East. I'm a brown skinned woman. I came to this country, I worked hard, I did not collect welfare. I paid for my own ticket to come to the United States. I paid for my own lawyers. I studied American history so I can pass the exam to become an American. Because most people don't realize at 40 years ago when I came to the United States and I had to become an American, I had to study. After I got my green card, I had to study a 2 inch thick book written by the daughters of the American Revolution about America's history, America's judicial system, our laws, our judicial process, our Congress. And I had to take a written exam as well as a verbal exam in English about America's history, what made us Great, our Constitution, etc. In order for me to become an American. By the time I became an American, I knew more about American history than my own American born husband. Did you know these are the type of immigrants we want to bring to this country and assimilate them. I created jobs, I started my own company, it didn't matter what I, you know what the first thing I did in this country when I came was, you, know, I needed money. We started our own business, I had a baby and I was pregnant with my second child. I put an 8 by 10 paper at ah, Regent University next to my house and I said I will type student papers for a dollar a page. We had just bought our first computer and I would put my kids to bed and I would sit at night from 10 o' clock at night till 2 o' clock in the morning typing student papers. I didn't mind whatever job I had to do in order for me to make money to feed my family. I did not depend on America to give me dime. Those are the type of immigrants we need to come to our country. And so this is why we fight so hard. It's not that we are against Muslims, we are against radicals who want to come to our country, bless their prayer five times a day, disturbing the peace while we cannot ring church bells. When was last time in your own city you heard church bells ringing on Sunday or on Wednesday? Has anybody ever awakened to the ringing of a church bell? Of course not. It's disturbing the peace. So why do people have to be awakened to the call of prayer? Islamic call of prayer. Screaming about killing the infidels, by the way, because we know what the Quran says. Why are we allowing this in our country? This is why I say you need to be as organized as the Islamists are. That's why we need to organize. And again, if this message resonates with anybody who's listening right now, go to act for America.org join us, start a chapter, become a member, support us, become a proud member, stand with us. And you know what we are. I'm a Christian, I was taught to love. This has Nothing to do with hating Muslims. This has nothing to do with hating a group of people. This has something to do with when we see something wrong happening in our country, we stand up and do what is right. And a lot of Christians, by the way, I know I'm speaking to a Christian audience. People tell me, oh, Brigitte, I'm praying for our country. I'm praying for our country. Well, you know what people say to me, Brigitte, I'm not an activist. I'm a prayer warrior, but I'm not an activist. And I tell them, you know what? Jesus set the example of what activism is. Jesus was the first activist. When Jesus saw something wrong in the temple and he walked into that temple, he overturned the table. He said, not in my father's house. When he saw something wrong, he stood up for what is right. And he did not allow it to continue, not under his watch, because he knew that was wrong. We are entrusted to whom much is given, much is required. God doesn't change the world through lightning in the sky. God uses his people as instruments of change. We are the instruments. We can read our Bible, we can pray for our country, but we need to act for our country. And that's exactly why I named the organization act for America. Not Think about America. Not Hope for America, Not Pray for America, but act for America. Because you can hope and wish and pray, and I do. But I act for my country as well. Because without action, nothing happens. Go to actforamerica.org right now and join us. Fight for our country. Preserve our Judeo Christian values. America is worth fighting for.
Abe Amiri was born and raised in Lebanon, which used to be Christian
Abraham Hamilton III Well said. Now, I want to ask you this because some may not be familiar with, your background, because I know about your background. Suffering the bombing in Lebanon and ultimately becoming a journalist in your early 20s, on Arabic television, by the way, before you even came to this country. Would you just share a little bit of your background for those who may not be familiar with it?
Brigitte Gabrielle thank you, Abe. Well, I was born and raised in Lebanon, which used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East. That was Paris of the Middle East. We imported people into our country who did not share our values. We had open borders. We were multicultural. We were open minded. We were fair. We were tolerant. Of course, like all Christians, you know, we want to do unto others what we want others to do unto us. We open our hearts to people. We want to welcome people, take care of people. And we ended up importing people into our country who did not share our values once they got into our country, they were majority Muslims. They put their heads together with the Muslims in Lebanon. Once they became the majority, they declared war on the Christians and started killing the Christians. My 9, 11 happened to me in 1975 when radical Islamists blew up my home, bringing it down, burying me under the rebel wounded. I ended up in a hospital for two and a half months and later ended up living in a bomb shelter for seven years underground. From the age of 10 till the age of 17, robbed of my youth. By the time I was 20, I had lost. I had buried most of my friends who were killed by radical Islamists. I ended up leaving to Israel. And from Israel I came to the United States. And I thought I left everybody, you know, all the crazies behind. But the crazies are now here in America.
Hamilton Corner features Brigitte Gabriel on radical Islam in the United States
And I want to circle back to what you opened up the show about the concern, how we saw in Michigan, the mayor telling, a Christian standing there talking about the blasting of the prayers, that he wants to kick him out of the city. He wants to celebrate him when he leaves the city. The irony is they're both Lebanese, both from my home country. One is a Shiite Muslim who is now a mayor in Michigan, and the other Christian who was standing up speaking is also Lebanese, where he lost his country, our country of birth, to radical Islam. And we are seeing the same thing play in the United States. That's why people need to heed the warning of people like us who escaped the Middle east, who came to the United States, who are warning about these issues. And that's why you need to speak up now while you still have a tongue and the freedom of speech, to be able to speak up and stand up for America and become America.
Abraham Hamilton III Well, let me break in because we're about to hit a break. You're listening to the Hamilton Corner. My guest is Brigitte Gabriel. Gabriel from act for America. More m when we come back from this break.
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Brigitte Gabrielle: 450,000 Shiites live in Michigan
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. My guest is Brigitte Gabrielle, ACT for America chairman. Actforamerica.org is the website. You need to go there now. As you've heard her say numerous times, actforamerica.org is the website. Jeff M. Please make sure we have that in the show notes. And for those who are tuning into the program, before we went to the break, you were making a point that I was unaware of in, Dearborn, that the mayor is Shiite, but also the one he was basically scurrying off, not Shiite, was Lebanese. And he is Shiite, but he's Lebanese. And that the one he was excoriating, from the podium is also Lebanese. Would you just continue that? And then we'll get to the seeming love affair between Islamists and the Democrat Party.
Brigitte Gabrielle Absolutely. What most people don't realize is in Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn, we call it Dearbornistan in Lebanon. In Dearborn, Michigan, there are 450,000 Shiites from the town of Bintish Bail, which is Hosbullah, major base in South Lebanon. 450,000 live in Dearborn, Michigan. So the Islamic concentration in Detroit that you see, they're all Shiite Lebanese who are all relatives, and they've got connections to Hezbollah in Lebanon. And so most people don't realize that. And the Christians who live in Dearborn, Michigan, are afraid to even speak up. You know, like this Lebanese. When you see people warning about what's happening in Dearborn or, or what's happening with the rise of Islamic radicalism in America, they have to be very careful because those of us who are so passionate, because we come from that part of the world, we have seen this play before. We're just telling you how the play is going to end. We've been there, we've seen it. but Americans are not ready to hear the truth. And they are uncomfortable with the truth because they do not want to judge anybody. They're being very careful. But that's the reality. That's why such concentration of radicalism in Michigan. That's where it's coming from.
You have an entire chapter in your book about Islamists placing the Democrat Party
Abraham Hamilton III Now you mentioned, and I've referred to your book Rise, your latest best selling book. You said you have a whole chapter in your book that illustrates this connection. Seeming like because I asked a question on the air, there's no way that I can take New York City's Islamist serious. Because if he's a serious Muslim, there's no way he could be a supporter of LGBTQ and transgenderism and all that kind of stuff. So what's the real truth here? And you have an entire chapter in your book that talks about kind of the useful idiot role that Islamists are placing the Democrat Party in. Would you just expound on that a little bit?
Brigitte Gabrielle Exactly. The Islamists are willing to lie, cheat. In Islam there's a law called taqiyah or kithman, which means lying or deception. A Muslim is allowed to lie. He can even swear, laying his hand on the Quran, that he's telling the truth, knowing that he is lying and knowing that he is fully forgiven by Allah and by the Quran because he is commanded to do so in order to advance Islam. So you've got these Muslims working with, the leftists in our country. You've got care, the Council on American Islamic Relations, working with the aclu. The ACLU is basically the legal arm of care. And you scratch your head and you think to yourself, how can these two people have anything in common? The radical Islamist CARE with the aclu. But they are using the leftists as the useful idiots, as pawns at the hands of an organized Islamic community who knows exactly what they want to do in the end? Who knows exactly their goal in the United States. A lot of them are front for the Muslim Brotherhood, like cair, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR started as the Islamic association for Palestine, which was listed in the Muslim Brotherhood Project for North America as a front, to advance the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. They ended up changing their names later because they needed the name that is very kind of beautiful and kind of flows with the breeze that Americans are comfortable with, like COUNCIL and American Islamic Relations, which sounds so wonderful and multicultural and et cetera, et cetera. So this is what we are seeing right now and the election. And New York is a perfect example. You've got these young lefty women who are all crazy about the radical Islamist Mamdani, you know, and who are so enamored by him not realizing if the guy is a true Islamist, this is the guy who started his political activism with the Muslim student association on college campus who comes from a radical father and mother who are devout Islamists who talk about the. The. Who actually justifies suicide bombers, call them fighters, that he does not consider them terrorists. And you've got all these young, beautiful, lefty young women who believe in abortion and women's rights and, you know, ah, all the lefty stuff. Gays and lesbians and LGBTQ and transgender rights and all of that men and women's sports, etc. Etc. They are the ones who elected Mamdani. And so, you know, we need to wake up the American public and not just wake up the American public. Abe, this is an important point I want to make. We need to wake up our own base because what's killing us is the apathy on our side. It's not that the left is organized. We know the left is organized because they want to organize. We know they are organized. Our base not only does not. Is not active, is not organized. They don't even come out to vote. The apathy is. The apathy is the cancer on the right that's killing the right and killing this country. This is why people need to be engaged. This is why people need to be active. And you know what? Activism is so much fun. Can you imagine getting together with, five of your best friends who share your idea? It's like a support system nowadays in America, talking about how can we make a difference in our own country? Get them to invite five more friends. We have chapters who meet who are like 400 people. They get together once a month. It is amazing. They have met new friends that they never even knew existed in their own community. people that came together because we connected them together. This is how we organize on the local community. Get together and say, okay, who do we want to run for school board? I'll give you a perfect example. Most people don't even show up to vote for school board. I live in a city of 450,000 people. You know how many people came out to vote for school board? 150. 150. Can you imagine if you have a chapter of 150 people, you can run your own people to run for school board and get only the chapter members to show up and, vote for them. And we can literally take school boards across the nation.
Abraham Hamilton III Wait, you say150.150 total or 150,000?
Brigitte Gabrielle 150 people and showed up and voted for a school board in a city of 450,000 people are not paying attention to These positions. This is exactly how we are losing. This is how the left is winning. The city councils, the mayoral, the state delegates, the school boards, because our people are not voting for these. Our people get excited and vote for congressman or senator or, you know, they think, you know, okay, election every two years. They're not paying attention to the locals that we. The offices that we need to take. But, when. When you are organized in a group, you sit down together and make a list. This month's meeting is going to be about making a list of who are our, you know, school board members. Most people don't even know who are the school board members in their community. Can you imagine if you sit down and say, okay, we need to make a list of our school board members and let's see who knows them, where do they stand, how do they vote? Okay, we've got, you know, this person, John Smith, who votes always for DEI and, and, and, and leftist, transgender in women's bathrooms and blah, blah, blah. We need to get rid of this person and we need to replace him with somebody that reflects our values. Okay, who from our chapter is going to run against this person? Okay, Abe, do you want to run against this person? Sure, I'll run against this person. You run. You get your chapter members to go out and vote for you and get their friends to go out and vote for you. People can literally take school board members nationwide if they apply the strategy of organization. That's how the left and the Islamists are organized and we are not. And we need to start doing that. Go to actforamerica.org right now. Join us. Start a chapter. Register your group with us. Sign up to receive your email, our emails and action alerts, and become a member today. That's how we're going to take back our country.
Brigitte: What needs to be done to combat negative influence
Abraham Hamilton III Now, you made the point about not just, discussing things and pontificating and all of that, but taking action. And there are things. One of the blessings we enjoy in this country is the separation of powers, and the system of checks and balances. What would you say needs to be done in order to, to, frankly, beat back the tide of, frankly, the negative influence that are seeking to take over and ultimately to destroy our country and our way of life.
Brigitte Gabrielle look, they are organized, and I go back to organization. I go back to organization. And I'll give you a perfect example right now. and I'm going to ask you this question, okay? Now you may not know the answer because I ask these questions to tens of thousands of People that I speak to. Okay, people, for example, everybody knows Obama was a community organizer, right? What do we have Obama for? Community organization. He was extremely organized. He organized communities. And Obama's grassroots organization is what everybody talks about. Oh my gosh. He organized the community. It transformed our country. Can you name me Obama's grassroots organization?
Abraham Hamilton III He had several if I remember it.
Brigitte Gabrielle no, there was one M that he organized the whole nation with.
Abraham Hamilton III It's on the tip of my tongue, but I don't recall the name right now.
Brigitte Gabrielle Organizing for Action.
Abraham Hamilton III That's right.
Brigitte Gabrielle Of a OFA, when he left office, morphed into something 10 times bigger, now has 6,000 chapters nationwide. Can you tell me that organization? Those are the people who are in your backyard, in your community, fighting you right now.
Abraham Hamilton III No, I don't, was, I don't know the name of it.
Brigitte Gabrielle Right. Because on the right I asked this question to literally groups of 10,000 at a conference or in a mega church. And in five years I've asked that question, only one person knew the answer. And he was a 30 year old Russian Jew, a member of the Lincoln Republican Club in Orange County. And he knew it because he came from the. He used to be a Democrat. That organization's Name is Indivisible. Indivisible.org on our side, our idea of activism is going to conferences. I ask people all the time, are you engaged? Are you active? Oh yes, Brigitte. I'm very informed. I'm a member of the Republican Party. I attend every meeting. We have great speakers. Last month we had so and so and this month we have so and so. And people go to cpac. My gosh, three days. We had incredible speakers. And I got my picture taken with Laura Ingraham and I got my picture taken with you know, at that time, Charlie Kirk or this and that, or this and that and oh my God, it was fantastic. And we went to this conference and that conference and people go to a conference, get excited, they hear great speakers and they hear Laura Ingram, etc. You're not going to hear anything new from Laura Ingraham that you're going to watch on the evening news on Fox at 7pm People do not know what to do. They go home seven days later. They have no idea what to do, no idea who they're fighting and no idea what to do. And that's our job. We at act for America. Not just educate, but mobilize people to understand. You know, General sue said, know thy enemy. You cannot win a war. Unless you know your enemy, unless you know who you're fighting. Our side does not know who they're fighting. They know a lot of information. They're very well informed. They hear from great speakers. They have no clue who they're fighting and what they can do.
Abraham Hamilton III So what would you say they can do?
Brigitte Gabrielle Organize in their local community? Match Indivisible. Start your own groups like Indivisible and Mobilize to save America. Those with the most passion win at the end of the day. And remember that big wave that we were supposed to have in 2022, the red wave. Everybody thought, oh, we're gonna have the red wave.
Abraham Hamilton III I was not one of those people.
Brigitte Gabrielle Why didn't we have the red wave? Apathy. Our side is so apathetic, they think President Trump is gonna fix it. See, the left doesn't depend on President Obama, does not depend on President Biden. They have a machine. And it doesn't matter who's in power. The machine is moving and organized. That's why they win, and that's why they came out and won in, all the election. This last election, everybody's focused on Mamdani. But do you realize that from the beginning of the year until now, we have lost The Republicans have lost every single special election across the nation in the last 10 months. Most people don't realize that because everybody put their arms down and thought, oh, President Trump, we elected President Trump. He's going to win everything. He's going to fight for us. I'm not worried. He's going to fix it. And people sit on their marbles and think, okay, my job is done. I'll go out next year and vote. But a lot of things happen in between the two years voting. And that's where we come in, and that's where our job is so important to Abe. And it takes cooperation and coordination between amazing, talk radio shows like you, people with programs and people like us who are activists to say, okay, we're going to inform and we're going to activate and we're going to bring the two together and we're going to pray for our country. But when we face our creator at the end of the day, who gave us America, a light, a shining light, a shining city on a hill, and we're going to face our creator. And he's going to say, I gave you all the freedom and the rights to create the greatest country on the face of the planet, a Christian nation founded on Judeo Christian values. And what did you do with it? I want to be able, when I face my Creator, to say, God, I did everything I can to preserve that wonderful blessing that you have blessed me with. And that's what every single one of us needs to be able to say.
Brigitte Amundsen says local engagement is necessary in politics
Abraham Hamilton III I've been saying for quite some time that local engagement is necessary. You seem to be including saying the same thing, but all the way up to the federal level. Brigitte, thank you so much for joining me here on the program today.
Brigitte Gabrielle Thank you, my friend. Always a pleasure being with you.
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Abraham Hamilton III Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. My name is Abraham Hamilton iii. Thank you for tuning into the program and as you've done all throughout the week and all the years we've been on the air here, it is a privilege to join you on a daily basis. We are here in studio. I'm accompanied by producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mac. And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome and through which you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to remind you, as I do on a regular basis, what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. here we have most recently the White House has signed the bill to reopen the government. which is the, which was the product of political shenanigans driven by Democrats who tried to hold. Not tried to, who held the country hostage because Obamacare was never affordable from the beginning. In fact it was designed to be unaffordable. But they wanted to try to make political, make a political grandstanding gesture in order to. And you heard their own party members tell you, well, this was our leverage point. So all of the hand wringing and oh, we want people to get there. They're down with ebt. Yeah, you know me, you know Snap, yeah, you know me. And all of this stuff that they were talking about that they don't, they, they don't care about, that they're willing to use it for their advantage. So they perceive for political purposes. And just let me say, the government reopening is just going to continue with the COVID current continuing resolution until January. So we'll be back with the same issue brought before us in January and it is important for the American people to pay attention to that because will we have another episode where temper tantrums over Obamacare subsidies. Subsidies will transpire there's, there is a vote. Republicans agreed to vote on the enhanced subsidies, but it's very unlikely that they will pass. So what's going to happen in January?
What goes on in your home is more important than what happens in Washington
But, but before we get to any of that, and beyond any of that, what goes on in your house is more important because you do not have the capacity to directly impact that, but you do have the ability to, to directly impact, and I would add, the responsibility to directly impact what transpires in your home. So at this very moment, as you are making your transition, you must, I must, we all must do so with intentionality. Well, I'll be making mine a little later once I get off there. But, we must do so with intentionality because we're not going to outvote. We're not going to out politicians, we're not going to out Supreme Court opinion. We're not going to out Rule 22, filibuster rule. We're not going to house majority, Senate majority, house minority, Senate minority. Deficiencies that abound in the home. That's just the truth. Those things are significant. Those things are important. We need people on the front lines in those areas. But if we have people serving in those capacities. But there is a continued negligence, a continued ignorance and a continued refusal to do what God requires of us in our homes. Guys, those things are, become nothing more than window dressing. And I will continue to ask this question rhetorically. How long do we expect a wicked populace to endure righteous leadership when that populace has the prerogative, the constitutional prerogative, to select its own servant leaders? What quality, what kind of servant leaders do you think will be selected when we have an increasingly wicked populace? We have to put into practice what God calls us to. Making disciples is not merely, This is a church growth strategy. No, no, no, no, no. Making disciples is a vehicle through which God establishes his kingdom. And because the American experiment in individual liberty flows directly from the truth in scripture, directly from the revelation of the imago, the reality of the imago dei, directly from some of the. Some of the revelations articulated throughout the Protestant Reformation. Because our nation flows, has been constructed directly from that. Guess what our nation. Nation needs in order to maintain and to continue this, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, a republic. If you can keep it. Guess what's needed to keep the republic. A, people who are self governed as a fruit of the spirit of God which indwells the regenerate. That is what we need. We need more believers to populate our nation. We need more people who have a biblical worldview we need more people who will fill out what Proverbs 14 tells us in verse 34. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. To the word of God we go.
Proverbs chapter 3, verses 1 through 8 is where we go
Proverbs chapter 3. Proverbs chapter 3, verses 1 through 8 is where I'm going to go. And I want you to notice something as we navigate the Scripture. I'm going to read it first and then we'll talk through it a little bit. Proverbs chapter 3, verse 1. My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments. For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart so you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your paths, or he will make your path straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. Here the proverb writer articulates a view that is consistent throughout Scripture. In verse one, when it says, my son, do not forget my teaching. You can really put our nation in this point America. Do not forget my teaching. Well, verse one explains is that you have the conveyance of wisdom utilizing as a framework the Father son relationship, where the Father is representative of the Heavenly Father. but the Son has been provided with robust teaching and instruction. And the Father adds to that robust teaching and instruction the admonition, don't forget what I've taught you. This is a sobering and gripping articulation and expression because the reality exists that one who's been the beneficiary of robust godly counsel and instruction, it is not an automatic that that beneficiary will retain that instruction. Hence the exhortation here. Don't forget my teaching. Don't forget what you've learned. Don't forget what I've taught you guys. In many ways, we're living in a moment right now in our country where what is being displayed collectively is the fact that, generationally we've forgotten the teaching of the Lord. We've abandoned that instruction. The reality exists that one can be presented with robust, godly, eternity based, biblically anchored guidance and instruction, and that the one to whom that guidance and instruction was provided can become conveniently forgetful of their guidance. And instruction, but it's not the Lord's will for that to be our experience, guys. Hence the admonition, do not forget my teaching.
Heeding the Lord's instruction, refusing to forget it has eternal benefit
Then verse two conveys something that should be jolting for us as well as encouraging for us. Because very often, and I talk about it a lot and I reflect on it a lot, I think about what it's going to be like in the tangible presence of God, in the eternal state with all of the saints throughout human history, where there will be no need for a son because the presence of God is so radiant. I reflect on it often. I, talk about it often. This scripture highlights the reality that heeding the Lord's instruction, refusing to forget the heavenly Father's teaching and instruction, embracing the gospel of Christ Jesus and repentance and faith, it has eternal benefit. Absolutely. But guess what? It also hasn't has temporal benefit. Verse 2 says, the refusal to forget the teachings of the Father result in length of days and years of life and peace being added to you. It's very similar to what you have and for example in Exodus and recounted again in Deuteronomy, when the Lord commanded and Moses received God's commands, Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that your God has provided for you. In the New Testament, the apostle Paul echoes that exact same command in Ephesians, chapter six. And then he adds, this is the first commandment with promise. There have been many times growing up in New Orleans, I would have conversations with families when I would say, you may not realize, but one of the most potent ways to short circuit your life is to refuse to honor your father and mother. One of the tried and true ways to short circuit your ability to enjoy what God has provided is by refusing to honor your father and mother. Here the proverb writer is communicating something very similarly in that submission to God's Word has benefit for us in the here and now. It is eternally beneficial, and it is temporally beneficial. And the corollary is true. The corresponding implication is true. Refusing to heed the Lord's Word is detrimental to us temporally. And if you reject the free gift of salvation eternally, the text goes on, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you, but bind them on your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, so you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man. It echoes a similar verse, when a man's ways please the Lord, even his enemies will be at peace with him. Yes, they're still enemies, but they won't have a ground or basis upon which to assert perpetual hostilities towards you. So the result, the net result is that even his enemies will be at peace with you. And that is a spectrum. Even his enemies would be at peace associates, those that may not like you that much, but they can't do nothing about it. Loved ones, etc. And it goes on down the line. Then we get to verse 5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. See all of these things flow in the direction toward verse five. For refusing to forget the Father's teachings, keeping his commandments treasuring them in our hearts. It's like bank vaults. Banks have vaults because they want to protect the most valuable assets they have. Our hearts should be vaults for the Lord's commands, the Lord's Word, Biblical instruction. Our heart should be vaults there, which is what the Scriptures indicated when it says, but let your heart keep my commandments. Again, it is true that we can be around the fount of knowledge from wisdom and understanding and yet not treasure it sufficiently. And so we simply trifle away the life giving virtue that God's word is and what God's word produces in us. Back to verse five. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. And do not lean on your own understanding. We all have been made in God's image. We have understanding. But the Scripture's admonition is to us. Refuse to allow that to be the thing that governs our engagement. We surrender and submit our understanding to the wisdom of God. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make your path straight. I've explained before the word for acknowledge there is yada. Some might think that text is saying provide mental assent to God's existence. And that is not what he's saying at all. The word yada literally means to carry forward into every occurrence and future occurrence the reality of the full scope, breadth, depth and height of who God is, and welcoming that to govern your engagement in the various circumstances. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, Turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones. Christ following has eternal benefit and temporal benefit as well.
Brigitte Gabrielle A, discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
Joseph Parker Prayerlessness. What exactly is prayerlessness? Well, that's the failure to really pray as we should. When we don't pray, we can miss things God is saying to us and God is doing in and around us. When we don't pray, we miss blessings God very much wants us to have. It's, a challenging area of life for probably many, if not most believers. The failure to pray. You know, the word of God tells us in First Thessalonians, chapter 5, it says, Pray without ceasing. Well, how in the world do we really do that? Well, keep in mind, God wouldn't tell us to do something we could not do. God tells us time and time again to do things that we can only do in his wisdom, in his power, and in his grace. Now I want to say and challenge every listener to really think about this. It's important that we live a life full of prayer.
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Abraham Hamilton III welcomes Brigitte Gabrielle to the Hamilton Corner
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. I'm delighted to have on the program a woman who I admire, I love her work, enjoy all that she is doing and has done. She's been on the show before, but it's been a while since we have had, have had her on, so I'm grateful to have her on today. I'm speaking of none other than Ms. Brigitte Gabrielle, National Security analyst, New York Times best selling author and chairman of act for America. Her latest bestseller is Rise, Rise. And I have the subtitle right here. Wait a minute. There we go. In defense of Judeo Christian values and freedom, Ms. M. Brigitte Gabrielle, thank you for joining me here on the Hamilton Corner.
Brigitte Gabrielle Thank you. I'm delighted to be back with you.
Abraham Hamilton III Oh, it is truly my pleasure. And I am completely confident that our audience will be blessed by the time we spend here together.
Ms. Gabrielle says we need to stand up for Judeo Christian values
today. I wanted to jump right into it. we've seen some pretty significant events develop in our own nation lately, with the most recent being the election of the Islamist in New York City, Zoran Mamdani. Then, you had, Omar Fattah, who ran for mayor but didn't win, but came pretty close in, thank God, Minneapolis. That's right. then you had the phenomenon of Islamic majorities in Dearborn, Michigan, I believe Shiite, predominantly. And in Hamtramck, Michigan where you had the mayor in Dearborn to tell a local Christian resident that, hey, you're not welcome here. what do you see happening in our country and with your background and your experiences and we can get into that however you want to go with that. what do you see happening in our country and does it seem to have a familiar ring to what we've seen throughout history around the world and what you've experienced personally?
Brigitte Gabrielle Well, this is a scary thing for me because I see my past in America's future, unless America wakes up today. I was born and raised in the country of Lebanon, which used to be Christian country. In my lifetime, I have seen the transformation of Lebanon from a majority Christian country to not only a majority Islamic country, but to a terrorist country. One of the biggest terrorist players in the world who harbored one of the most lethal terrorist organization in the world, Hezbollah. Hezbollah committed terrorist attacks in four continents across the globe. So what starts in the Middle east doesn't stay in the Middle east right now. What we are witnessing, we are witnessing the spread and the infiltration of Islamists coming out of the Middle east and spreading all over the world, bringing with them their ideology, their customs, their traditions, their, faith and enforcing their faith and their habits and their traditions of the countries that they left and came to the United States so they can escape. They are enforcing that now down our throat. So they want the best of what America has to offer. What they came here for, the prosperity, the freebies, the benefits of the United States, the Social Security checks, the Medicare, Medicaid, or whatever it is that they get, the free health care, free this, free that. If you cannot make enough, money, we're going to give you snap, we're going to give you food stamps, we're going to even give you free housing, and if you can't qualify even for a free cell phone. So they want all the freebies that our freedoms enables us to give to our people, to our citizens, to take care of them. Now, they're coming from these countries and they are trying to shove. Not trying, they are shoving down our throat all these bad things that they left. And that's why Americans need to wake up right now. Not just talk about it, not just think, oh, my gosh, we've got a problem. But think, okay, one, we need to develop the backbone to say what needs to be said. And we need to organize, mobilize, and engage our citizens to stand up and say, you're gonna lose your country unless you become engaged today.
Abraham Hamilton III So, well said. And I didn't even mention that the things we mentioned. We're witnessing the genocide in Nigeria, the persecution in Sudan of Christians, the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, the persecution in Sudan, the, Democratic Republic of Congo. It's happening all over the world and it's being brought to our domestic shores. you mentioned that we need to wake up right now and develop the backbone to say what needs to be said. So, Ms. Gabrielle, what needs to be said.
Brigitte Gabrielle Well, one, we need to call evil by its name, evil. We need to stand up for our Judeo Christian values and say, look, these values these Islamists are bringing with them to our country are not American values. They are not the values that made our country great. As a matter of fact, their values are the values that keep their countries as a third world country. Their values are the ones that are oppressed, oppressing individual rights, oppressing women. 50% of their societies are, basically, do not produce anything, do not contribute anything. Women who are oppressed in their society. This is not how we operate. We do not want Sharia law in the United States. You want to practice your Sharia law, you stay where you are. You can immigrate to Saudi Arabia, you can immigrate to Indonesia, you can immigrate to Egypt. You can go stay in your own region in the world. You don't need to come to Canada and freeze your neck off, or come to Minnesota and freeze your neck off, from Somalia. If people like Ilhan Omar, for example, and this Fatah guy who ran for mayor and lost, thank God, you know, did not like Somalia so much. Why are they living, you know, or they're pledging their allegiance to Somalia, campaigning in Somali instead of campaigning in English. Why are they here? They can go back to Somalia. So the first thing, we need to identify the problem and start speaking up about it. And the second thing is we need to start organizing in our own communities, creating groups in our own communities that impact our elected officials who make the decisions that affect us. Look, it is our elected official that decide how many refugees get deposited in your state. It's your elected officials that approve the funding for these refugees that m are deposited in your state. And so we need to impact those decisions. And that's why my organization, act for America, and I encourage everybody if my message resonates with you. Go right now to act for america.org and join us. Start a chapter in your community. If you have five friends who believe the same way you do, get together. Start a group. We will connect you with other people in your state and in your city who are members of our organization, who share our concern, who will work with you, that will grow your chapter where you can impact your local policy. We monitor bills coming down for a vote at the federal level and the state level, and we notify you about these bills coming down for a vote. So make sure you are signed up to receive our emails and action alerts. Start a chapter in your Community. If you already have a group up and going, make sure you register your group with our organization so we can come behind you, we can lift you up, we can support you, we can give you our resources, we can give you our technology that will help you mobilize in your own community. That's how we can make a difference.
Abe and Brigitte say overwhelming majority of Muslims are nonviolent
Abraham Hamilton III M, man, it's so profound you speak so powerfully to this point is a question I'm going to present to you now. because many people will say, well Abe and Brigitte, you guys are talking about this, but the overwhelming majority of Muslims are nonviolent. it's really only a minority that is violent. What would you say to the person who would present to you the notion that the majority are not violent? In terms of those who are, are Islamic practitioners?
Brigitte Gabrielle I agree with them. I agree with them 100%. But these are not the ones we are worried about. These are not the ones. On 9 11, 2001 we had 2.3 million Muslims, peaceful, moderate Muslims living in the United States. It took only 19 radicals to bring the World Trade center down, kill 3,000Americans and bring America down on its knees. Our air traffic control, our air traffic came to a shrieking halt. Our stock market plummeted and stopped, literally stopped. We were paralyzed not by the 2.3 million but by 19 people. When you look at the radicals who drive the agenda all throughout the world, it doesn't matter where they are. The ones, the passionate, who are impacting the lives of millions of people. And we cannot allow that to happen in our country. And this is why I say 2% of the passionate will always overrule than 98% indifferent. And this is why we need to organize. We're not organizing against those who want to come assimilate. We're not organizing against those who are peaceful people who want to come to this nation, who want to be a part of the American fabric, who want to contribute to America, who want to become taxpayers who are going to support our society, who are going to create jobs, employ Americans. This is what immigrants did for the last 300 years who came to this country, myself included. I am a first generation immigrant from the Middle East. I'm a brown skinned woman. I came to this country, I worked hard, I did not collect welfare. I paid for my own ticket to come to the United States. I paid for my own lawyers. I studied American history so I can pass the exam to become an American. Because most people don't realize at 40 years ago when I came to the United States and I had to become an American, I had to study. After I got my green card, I had to study a 2 inch thick book written by the daughters of the American Revolution about America's history, America's judicial system, our laws, our judicial process, our Congress. And I had to take a written exam as well as a verbal exam in English about America's history, what made us Great, our Constitution, etc. In order for me to become an American. By the time I became an American, I knew more about American history than my own American born husband. Did you know these are the type of immigrants we want to bring to this country and assimilate them. I created jobs, I started my own company, it didn't matter what I, you know what the first thing I did in this country when I came was, you, know, I needed money. We started our own business, I had a baby and I was pregnant with my second child. I put an 8 by 10 paper at ah, Regent University next to my house and I said I will type student papers for a dollar a page. We had just bought our first computer and I would put my kids to bed and I would sit at night from 10 o' clock at night till 2 o' clock in the morning typing student papers. I didn't mind whatever job I had to do in order for me to make money to feed my family. I did not depend on America to give me dime. Those are the type of immigrants we need to come to our country. And so this is why we fight so hard. It's not that we are against Muslims, we are against radicals who want to come to our country, bless their prayer five times a day, disturbing the peace while we cannot ring church bells. When was last time in your own city you heard church bells ringing on Sunday or on Wednesday? Has anybody ever awakened to the ringing of a church bell? Of course not. It's disturbing the peace. So why do people have to be awakened to the call of prayer? Islamic call of prayer. Screaming about killing the infidels, by the way, because we know what the Quran says. Why are we allowing this in our country? This is why I say you need to be as organized as the Islamists are. That's why we need to organize. And again, if this message resonates with anybody who's listening right now, go to act for America.org join us, start a chapter, become a member, support us, become a proud member, stand with us. And you know what we are. I'm a Christian, I was taught to love. This has Nothing to do with hating Muslims. This has nothing to do with hating a group of people. This has something to do with when we see something wrong happening in our country, we stand up and do what is right. And a lot of Christians, by the way, I know I'm speaking to a Christian audience. People tell me, oh, Brigitte, I'm praying for our country. I'm praying for our country. Well, you know what people say to me, Brigitte, I'm not an activist. I'm a prayer warrior, but I'm not an activist. And I tell them, you know what? Jesus set the example of what activism is. Jesus was the first activist. When Jesus saw something wrong in the temple and he walked into that temple, he overturned the table. He said, not in my father's house. When he saw something wrong, he stood up for what is right. And he did not allow it to continue, not under his watch, because he knew that was wrong. We are entrusted to whom much is given, much is required. God doesn't change the world through lightning in the sky. God uses his people as instruments of change. We are the instruments. We can read our Bible, we can pray for our country, but we need to act for our country. And that's exactly why I named the organization act for America. Not Think about America. Not Hope for America, Not Pray for America, but act for America. Because you can hope and wish and pray, and I do. But I act for my country as well. Because without action, nothing happens. Go to actforamerica.org right now and join us. Fight for our country. Preserve our Judeo Christian values. America is worth fighting for.
Abe Amiri was born and raised in Lebanon, which used to be Christian
Abraham Hamilton III Well said. Now, I want to ask you this because some may not be familiar with, your background, because I know about your background. Suffering the bombing in Lebanon and ultimately becoming a journalist in your early 20s, on Arabic television, by the way, before you even came to this country. Would you just share a little bit of your background for those who may not be familiar with it?
Brigitte Gabrielle thank you, Abe. Well, I was born and raised in Lebanon, which used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East. That was Paris of the Middle East. We imported people into our country who did not share our values. We had open borders. We were multicultural. We were open minded. We were fair. We were tolerant. Of course, like all Christians, you know, we want to do unto others what we want others to do unto us. We open our hearts to people. We want to welcome people, take care of people. And we ended up importing people into our country who did not share our values once they got into our country, they were majority Muslims. They put their heads together with the Muslims in Lebanon. Once they became the majority, they declared war on the Christians and started killing the Christians. My 9, 11 happened to me in 1975 when radical Islamists blew up my home, bringing it down, burying me under the rebel wounded. I ended up in a hospital for two and a half months and later ended up living in a bomb shelter for seven years underground. From the age of 10 till the age of 17, robbed of my youth. By the time I was 20, I had lost. I had buried most of my friends who were killed by radical Islamists. I ended up leaving to Israel. And from Israel I came to the United States. And I thought I left everybody, you know, all the crazies behind. But the crazies are now here in America.
Hamilton Corner features Brigitte Gabriel on radical Islam in the United States
And I want to circle back to what you opened up the show about the concern, how we saw in Michigan, the mayor telling, a Christian standing there talking about the blasting of the prayers, that he wants to kick him out of the city. He wants to celebrate him when he leaves the city. The irony is they're both Lebanese, both from my home country. One is a Shiite Muslim who is now a mayor in Michigan, and the other Christian who was standing up speaking is also Lebanese, where he lost his country, our country of birth, to radical Islam. And we are seeing the same thing play in the United States. That's why people need to heed the warning of people like us who escaped the Middle east, who came to the United States, who are warning about these issues. And that's why you need to speak up now while you still have a tongue and the freedom of speech, to be able to speak up and stand up for America and become America.
Abraham Hamilton III Well, let me break in because we're about to hit a break. You're listening to the Hamilton Corner. My guest is Brigitte Gabriel. Gabriel from act for America. More m when we come back from this break.
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Brigitte Gabrielle: 450,000 Shiites live in Michigan
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. My guest is Brigitte Gabrielle, ACT for America chairman. Actforamerica.org is the website. You need to go there now. As you've heard her say numerous times, actforamerica.org is the website. Jeff M. Please make sure we have that in the show notes. And for those who are tuning into the program, before we went to the break, you were making a point that I was unaware of in, Dearborn, that the mayor is Shiite, but also the one he was basically scurrying off, not Shiite, was Lebanese. And he is Shiite, but he's Lebanese. And that the one he was excoriating, from the podium is also Lebanese. Would you just continue that? And then we'll get to the seeming love affair between Islamists and the Democrat Party.
Brigitte Gabrielle Absolutely. What most people don't realize is in Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn, we call it Dearbornistan in Lebanon. In Dearborn, Michigan, there are 450,000 Shiites from the town of Bintish Bail, which is Hosbullah, major base in South Lebanon. 450,000 live in Dearborn, Michigan. So the Islamic concentration in Detroit that you see, they're all Shiite Lebanese who are all relatives, and they've got connections to Hezbollah in Lebanon. And so most people don't realize that. And the Christians who live in Dearborn, Michigan, are afraid to even speak up. You know, like this Lebanese. When you see people warning about what's happening in Dearborn or, or what's happening with the rise of Islamic radicalism in America, they have to be very careful because those of us who are so passionate, because we come from that part of the world, we have seen this play before. We're just telling you how the play is going to end. We've been there, we've seen it. but Americans are not ready to hear the truth. And they are uncomfortable with the truth because they do not want to judge anybody. They're being very careful. But that's the reality. That's why such concentration of radicalism in Michigan. That's where it's coming from.
You have an entire chapter in your book about Islamists placing the Democrat Party
Abraham Hamilton III Now you mentioned, and I've referred to your book Rise, your latest best selling book. You said you have a whole chapter in your book that illustrates this connection. Seeming like because I asked a question on the air, there's no way that I can take New York City's Islamist serious. Because if he's a serious Muslim, there's no way he could be a supporter of LGBTQ and transgenderism and all that kind of stuff. So what's the real truth here? And you have an entire chapter in your book that talks about kind of the useful idiot role that Islamists are placing the Democrat Party in. Would you just expound on that a little bit?
Brigitte Gabrielle Exactly. The Islamists are willing to lie, cheat. In Islam there's a law called taqiyah or kithman, which means lying or deception. A Muslim is allowed to lie. He can even swear, laying his hand on the Quran, that he's telling the truth, knowing that he is lying and knowing that he is fully forgiven by Allah and by the Quran because he is commanded to do so in order to advance Islam. So you've got these Muslims working with, the leftists in our country. You've got care, the Council on American Islamic Relations, working with the aclu. The ACLU is basically the legal arm of care. And you scratch your head and you think to yourself, how can these two people have anything in common? The radical Islamist CARE with the aclu. But they are using the leftists as the useful idiots, as pawns at the hands of an organized Islamic community who knows exactly what they want to do in the end? Who knows exactly their goal in the United States. A lot of them are front for the Muslim Brotherhood, like cair, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR started as the Islamic association for Palestine, which was listed in the Muslim Brotherhood Project for North America as a front, to advance the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. They ended up changing their names later because they needed the name that is very kind of beautiful and kind of flows with the breeze that Americans are comfortable with, like COUNCIL and American Islamic Relations, which sounds so wonderful and multicultural and et cetera, et cetera. So this is what we are seeing right now and the election. And New York is a perfect example. You've got these young lefty women who are all crazy about the radical Islamist Mamdani, you know, and who are so enamored by him not realizing if the guy is a true Islamist, this is the guy who started his political activism with the Muslim student association on college campus who comes from a radical father and mother who are devout Islamists who talk about the. The. Who actually justifies suicide bombers, call them fighters, that he does not consider them terrorists. And you've got all these young, beautiful, lefty young women who believe in abortion and women's rights and, you know, ah, all the lefty stuff. Gays and lesbians and LGBTQ and transgender rights and all of that men and women's sports, etc. Etc. They are the ones who elected Mamdani. And so, you know, we need to wake up the American public and not just wake up the American public. Abe, this is an important point I want to make. We need to wake up our own base because what's killing us is the apathy on our side. It's not that the left is organized. We know the left is organized because they want to organize. We know they are organized. Our base not only does not. Is not active, is not organized. They don't even come out to vote. The apathy is. The apathy is the cancer on the right that's killing the right and killing this country. This is why people need to be engaged. This is why people need to be active. And you know what? Activism is so much fun. Can you imagine getting together with, five of your best friends who share your idea? It's like a support system nowadays in America, talking about how can we make a difference in our own country? Get them to invite five more friends. We have chapters who meet who are like 400 people. They get together once a month. It is amazing. They have met new friends that they never even knew existed in their own community. people that came together because we connected them together. This is how we organize on the local community. Get together and say, okay, who do we want to run for school board? I'll give you a perfect example. Most people don't even show up to vote for school board. I live in a city of 450,000 people. You know how many people came out to vote for school board? 150. 150. Can you imagine if you have a chapter of 150 people, you can run your own people to run for school board and get only the chapter members to show up and, vote for them. And we can literally take school boards across the nation.
Abraham Hamilton III Wait, you say150.150 total or 150,000?
Brigitte Gabrielle 150 people and showed up and voted for a school board in a city of 450,000 people are not paying attention to These positions. This is exactly how we are losing. This is how the left is winning. The city councils, the mayoral, the state delegates, the school boards, because our people are not voting for these. Our people get excited and vote for congressman or senator or, you know, they think, you know, okay, election every two years. They're not paying attention to the locals that we. The offices that we need to take. But, when. When you are organized in a group, you sit down together and make a list. This month's meeting is going to be about making a list of who are our, you know, school board members. Most people don't even know who are the school board members in their community. Can you imagine if you sit down and say, okay, we need to make a list of our school board members and let's see who knows them, where do they stand, how do they vote? Okay, we've got, you know, this person, John Smith, who votes always for DEI and, and, and, and leftist, transgender in women's bathrooms and blah, blah, blah. We need to get rid of this person and we need to replace him with somebody that reflects our values. Okay, who from our chapter is going to run against this person? Okay, Abe, do you want to run against this person? Sure, I'll run against this person. You run. You get your chapter members to go out and vote for you and get their friends to go out and vote for you. People can literally take school board members nationwide if they apply the strategy of organization. That's how the left and the Islamists are organized and we are not. And we need to start doing that. Go to actforamerica.org right now. Join us. Start a chapter. Register your group with us. Sign up to receive your email, our emails and action alerts, and become a member today. That's how we're going to take back our country.
Brigitte: What needs to be done to combat negative influence
Abraham Hamilton III Now, you made the point about not just, discussing things and pontificating and all of that, but taking action. And there are things. One of the blessings we enjoy in this country is the separation of powers, and the system of checks and balances. What would you say needs to be done in order to, to, frankly, beat back the tide of, frankly, the negative influence that are seeking to take over and ultimately to destroy our country and our way of life.
Brigitte Gabrielle look, they are organized, and I go back to organization. I go back to organization. And I'll give you a perfect example right now. and I'm going to ask you this question, okay? Now you may not know the answer because I ask these questions to tens of thousands of People that I speak to. Okay, people, for example, everybody knows Obama was a community organizer, right? What do we have Obama for? Community organization. He was extremely organized. He organized communities. And Obama's grassroots organization is what everybody talks about. Oh my gosh. He organized the community. It transformed our country. Can you name me Obama's grassroots organization?
Abraham Hamilton III He had several if I remember it.
Brigitte Gabrielle no, there was one M that he organized the whole nation with.
Abraham Hamilton III It's on the tip of my tongue, but I don't recall the name right now.
Brigitte Gabrielle Organizing for Action.
Abraham Hamilton III That's right.
Brigitte Gabrielle Of a OFA, when he left office, morphed into something 10 times bigger, now has 6,000 chapters nationwide. Can you tell me that organization? Those are the people who are in your backyard, in your community, fighting you right now.
Abraham Hamilton III No, I don't, was, I don't know the name of it.
Brigitte Gabrielle Right. Because on the right I asked this question to literally groups of 10,000 at a conference or in a mega church. And in five years I've asked that question, only one person knew the answer. And he was a 30 year old Russian Jew, a member of the Lincoln Republican Club in Orange County. And he knew it because he came from the. He used to be a Democrat. That organization's Name is Indivisible. Indivisible.org on our side, our idea of activism is going to conferences. I ask people all the time, are you engaged? Are you active? Oh yes, Brigitte. I'm very informed. I'm a member of the Republican Party. I attend every meeting. We have great speakers. Last month we had so and so and this month we have so and so. And people go to cpac. My gosh, three days. We had incredible speakers. And I got my picture taken with Laura Ingraham and I got my picture taken with you know, at that time, Charlie Kirk or this and that, or this and that and oh my God, it was fantastic. And we went to this conference and that conference and people go to a conference, get excited, they hear great speakers and they hear Laura Ingram, etc. You're not going to hear anything new from Laura Ingraham that you're going to watch on the evening news on Fox at 7pm People do not know what to do. They go home seven days later. They have no idea what to do, no idea who they're fighting and no idea what to do. And that's our job. We at act for America. Not just educate, but mobilize people to understand. You know, General sue said, know thy enemy. You cannot win a war. Unless you know your enemy, unless you know who you're fighting. Our side does not know who they're fighting. They know a lot of information. They're very well informed. They hear from great speakers. They have no clue who they're fighting and what they can do.
Abraham Hamilton III So what would you say they can do?
Brigitte Gabrielle Organize in their local community? Match Indivisible. Start your own groups like Indivisible and Mobilize to save America. Those with the most passion win at the end of the day. And remember that big wave that we were supposed to have in 2022, the red wave. Everybody thought, oh, we're gonna have the red wave.
Abraham Hamilton III I was not one of those people.
Brigitte Gabrielle Why didn't we have the red wave? Apathy. Our side is so apathetic, they think President Trump is gonna fix it. See, the left doesn't depend on President Obama, does not depend on President Biden. They have a machine. And it doesn't matter who's in power. The machine is moving and organized. That's why they win, and that's why they came out and won in, all the election. This last election, everybody's focused on Mamdani. But do you realize that from the beginning of the year until now, we have lost The Republicans have lost every single special election across the nation in the last 10 months. Most people don't realize that because everybody put their arms down and thought, oh, President Trump, we elected President Trump. He's going to win everything. He's going to fight for us. I'm not worried. He's going to fix it. And people sit on their marbles and think, okay, my job is done. I'll go out next year and vote. But a lot of things happen in between the two years voting. And that's where we come in, and that's where our job is so important to Abe. And it takes cooperation and coordination between amazing, talk radio shows like you, people with programs and people like us who are activists to say, okay, we're going to inform and we're going to activate and we're going to bring the two together and we're going to pray for our country. But when we face our creator at the end of the day, who gave us America, a light, a shining light, a shining city on a hill, and we're going to face our creator. And he's going to say, I gave you all the freedom and the rights to create the greatest country on the face of the planet, a Christian nation founded on Judeo Christian values. And what did you do with it? I want to be able, when I face my Creator, to say, God, I did everything I can to preserve that wonderful blessing that you have blessed me with. And that's what every single one of us needs to be able to say.
Brigitte Amundsen says local engagement is necessary in politics
Abraham Hamilton III I've been saying for quite some time that local engagement is necessary. You seem to be including saying the same thing, but all the way up to the federal level. Brigitte, thank you so much for joining me here on the program today.
Brigitte Gabrielle Thank you, my friend. Always a pleasure being with you.
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