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Brigitte Gabriel, the leader of a national movement that takes on the sensitive and politically incorrect issue of Islamic radicalism in the United States, is coming to Westborough this weekend.
It will be her first talk in New England since she accompanied many of us in a pro-Israel march from Brookline to Boston's City Hall Plaza led by the Russian Jewish community during the Second Intifida. Brigitte was fiery, an inspiration. She joined a dozen Jewish speakers - including Barry Shrage - as we addressed a large grassroots crowd across from a burnt-out Israeli school bus that was brought to dramatize the plight of Israel's Jews.
Gabriel is a Christian woman born in Lebanon who experienced the crushing defeat of her people by radical Islamists. She was brought up to hate Jews. But when her mother was injured in the Lebanese war, and she brought her to an Israel Defense Forces medical tent where wounded Jewish soldiers allowed her to go to the front of the line, Brigitte's life was changed forever.
She is today our country's most prominent Christian Zionist anti-jihadi, and her organization, Act for America, has 200,000 followers. I'm one of them, and I'm excited to hear her Westborough talk, at...