Sharia courts are here — and Americans need to wake up



Americans shouldn't wait until Sharia courts become widespread before deciding where they stand — and Brigitte Gabriel is doing everything in her power to help them see the threat before it's too late.

Gabriel tells BlazeTV host Nick Freitas that she was shocked to relive her upbringing in Lebanon — where her home was attacked by Islamic extremists — on 9/11, when her daughter sat watching the towers fall on the news and asked her, “Mommy, why did they do this to us?”

“And I found myself, Nick,” she explains, “looking into my daughter’s eyes and repeating to her the exact same words my father said to me when I was a 10-year-old little girl, laying wounded in a hospital in Lebanon, hooked up to IVs on both arms, one blood bag in one arm, one IV in another, asking my father, ‘Why did they do this to us?’”

“And my father told me, ‘They hate us because they consider us infidels, and they want to kill us.’ Here we were two generations apart, two continents apart. I had to look into my daughter’s eyes and repeat to her the same words my father said to me,” she continues.


“That day I was reborn as an activist,” she adds, noting that this is why she started the Act for America foundation in 2002.

This foundation serves to “organize people in chapters nationwide to teach them how they can impact policy at their local level.”

Not only does the foundation now have over 5 million members nationwide, but it has successfully passed 300 bills at the federal and state level.

And the latest bill it is putting through Congress is the Preserving Our Constitution Act of 2026.

“It says no Sharia courts are allowed to operate in the United States. We are building the firewall to make sure that this does not happen,” Gabriel explains.

Freitas warns that this could easily become a problem for the U.S., as in the U.K. right now, there are 84 Sharia courts.

“Please understand that when Brigitte here is talking about Sharia courts in the United States, it is an inevitability unless you’re proactive,” Freitas says. “Because the moment they start going, and you haven’t prepared yourself for this, now all of a sudden, they win a couple of cases in court, and nobody wants to challenge them, and they start setting them up everywhere.”

However, Gabriel has some bad news.

“The Sharia courts are already operating in the United States,” she says. “The first Sharia court was established in Richardson, Texas, in 1991. Since then, we have documented 150 cases judged under Sharia law in the United States in 23 states.”

This is why in 2009, Gabriel got to work on the American Laws for American Courts bill, which says that “no law that is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution would be allowed to be practiced in an American courtroom.”

“We were able to pass that law in 13 states,” she explains.

“We’ve been fighting this battle for a long time,” she adds.

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At 13, she was waiting to die at the hands of Islamic extremists. Now she has a warning for America.



Brigitte Gabriel doesn’t speak about Islamic extremism as an observer. She speaks as someone who lived through it.

“I was born in what used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East: Lebanon. We are a republic exactly like the United States of America,” Gabriel tells BlazeTV host Nick Freitas.

“Unfortunately, we imported people into our country who did not share our values. And when they would say, ‘We hate you. We want to kill you. We want to transform your country,’ we didn’t believe them, because we thought, 'We are the Paris of the Middle East, we’re the banking capital of the Middle East. No one can touch us,'” she says.

“Unfortunately, they were able to destroy the country using our democracy to topple our democracy, our open-mindedness, our fairness, our tolerance, our multiculturalism."

In what she calls her 9/11, Islamists then blew up her home.


“I ended up in a hospital for two and a half months and later ended up living in a bomb shelter in an 8x10 room without electricity, without water, and very little food. And that’s where I lived, Nick, for the next seven years of my life,” she explains.

When she had to get water, she would “crawl under sniper’s bullets” because they were surrounded by Islamic snipers.

“I remember when I was 13 years old, a friend of ours stopped by, and he said, ‘Brigitte, I just want you to know we heard a lot of chatter on the radios, and we believe our town is going to be attacked tonight.’ And he said, ‘If I don’t see you tomorrow, I wish you a merciful death.’ And he left,” she recalls.

“And I remember, Nick, at the age of 13 years old, dressing in my Sunday best, my Easter dress, because I wanted to look pretty when I am dead, knowing that when they come to slaughter me, there would be no one to bury me,” she continues.

“And my parents said to me, they said, 'When they come to slaughter us tonight, we will create a distraction. You’re a young child. We’re old people. We’ve lived a long life. We’ll create a distraction, and we just want you to run towards Israel and don’t look back,'” she adds.

However, her parents' plan would never come to fruition, as Israel came to them instead.

“That’s the night when Israel came in physically, into Lebanon, and established the security zone and set up artillery bases around our towns to stop the Palestinians and Islamists from coming into our town,” she tells Freitas.

“And that’s how we stayed alive until 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon, working with the Christians, helping the Christians take back their democracy and kicking out the Palestinians,” she continues.

“And that’s how I came out of the bomb shelter and [rebuilt] our lives,” she adds.

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Muslim ISIS wannabe mows down Berlin Pride parade — activist sad he wasn't 'white Christian'



An adherent of the "religion of peace" drove a white van into Germany's largest annual LGBT Pride event on Saturday, killing one and injuring at least 29 individuals before smashing into a tree nearby Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

After plowing through the pro-diversity festivities, homegrown terrorist Abdul Ballout — a 21-year-old German citizen with foreign ties — attacked passersby with a knife, then fled the scene, according to German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt.

'The rainbow has suffered a crack today.'

Yannicka Riebensahm, a Berlin-based performer and activist who performs under the name Nyya, spoke at the vigil held on Saturday evening for victims of the attack and complained about the identity of the suspect, noting that she had hoped it was not a foreigner "but a Christian white person" who had mowed down the non-straight revelers.

Other attendees at the vigil waved LGBT imperial colors, and one held a sign that said, "From grief, to anger, to resistance!"

Some Berlin LGBT organizers have demanded that the Islamic terrorist attack not be "instrumentalized for political ends."

Ballout, who was born in Germany three years after his mother's arrival from Lebanon in 2002, was previously known to police, having committed multiple crimes, including aggravated assault and predatory extortion, and belonging to the "Islamist scene," said Dobrindt.

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The LGBT event before a Muslim terrorist drove into it. RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP/Getty Images

Tawfik, the terrorist's father who lives in Lebanon, told Der Spiegel that his son had been "brainwashed."

According to German prosecutors, the suspect traveled to Lebanon last year with the aim of joining ISIS, reported PBS. Ballout successfully met up with what he figured for militants, but before he could wage jihad, he was arrested by Lebanese authorities and sentenced by a military court to three months in prison.

Ballout subsequently returned to Germany and was arrested at the airport, according to PBS. In May, he was convicted both of plotting a serious act of violence threatening national security and of publishing ISIS propaganda.

Dobrindt told reporters, however, that Ballout's original sentence was suspended. Instead of serving one year and 10 months in youth custody, the terrorist was released from detention within days of his conviction pending an appeal of his sentence by prosecutors.

Following the attack, Andre Lehmann, a top official at Germany's largest non-straight NGO, LSVD+, said in a statement, "The rainbow has suffered a crack today. This is a dark day for our community and our country. Our thoughts are with everyone directly affected."

The City of Berlin said that the motto of this year's Christopher Street Day parade was "Taking a stand is hot," and that organizers were urging people "to take a stand for an open society, for democratic values, and for the equal rights of queer people."

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated early on Sunday, "This is an attack on our society."

"The act will be investigated and pursued with the utmost severity," added Merz.

On Sunday, German special forces caught up with the suspect in the greater Berlin area. Ballout attacked police, then "suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene."

Following the attack, Alternative for Germany — or AFD, an ascendant rightist party that the German establishment has for years subjected to lawfare for sounding the alarm about the fallout of mass migration — blasted Merz's ruling CDU Party for "once again shirking responsibility."

AFD said that contrary to the suggestion by elements of the CDU, "the problem is not 'hate and incitement on the net,' but rather a far too lax approach to Islamist threats and all those who have been massively endangering the lives and security of citizens in Germany for eleven years now — let into the country by the CDU."

AFD reiterated its demand for "the immediate detention of Islamist threats and consistent deportations."

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US brokers Israel-Hezbollah truce despite Israeli official's demand that 'all of Lebanon' burn



President Donald Trump signed the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding on Wednesday evening, immediately opening the Strait of Hormuz to the free flow of oil and setting the stage for a final peace deal with Tehran.

While the markets responded positively, there was a great deal of consternation both in the U.S. and in Israel about the terms of the deal, particularly the provisions requiring money for Iran's reconstruction and the "immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon."

'For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.'

The fragile peace has been undermined by more than just criticism on the sidelines.

Disregarding the demands for a cessation of hostilities, Hezbollah and Israel engaged in a brutal exchange on Thursday and Friday that has claimed multiple lives and delayed the permanent peace talks. This bloodletting has, however, since been put on pause, owing to a truce reportedly brokered by the United States and regional actors.

The Israel Defense Forces announced late on Thursday that an explosive Hezbollah drone had detonated near Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, injuring four soldiers. Another terrorist drone reportedly detonated several minutes later, injuring another Israeli soldier.

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The Hezbollah strikes turned deadly early Friday morning when a suspected anti-tank missile struck a tank belonging to the 401st Armored Brigade's 52nd Battalion in Lebanon's Kfar Tebnit area, killing all four crew members, reported the Times of Israel.

Israel, in turn, launched numerous strikes — over 150 by early Friday — against alleged terrorist targets in Southern and Eastern Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had instructed the IDF to "strike Hezbollah with full force" and reiterated that "Israel will remain in the security zone in Southern Lebanon for as long as required to protect the settlements in the north."

The Lebanese health ministry claimed that the Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people — at least 18 of whom were reportedly civilians — and wounded nearly 100 others since midnight.

That toll was evidently not nearly enough for Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who stated, "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!"

"With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn," continued Ben-Gvir, one of the most outspoken critics of Trump's deal with Iran. "In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint — you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.."

Three regional officials told the Associated Press that the U.S., Qatar, and Iran brokered a truce between Lebanon and Israel — a truce that a senior U.S. official told Reuters was set to begin Friday at 4 p.m. local time.

"Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire," said the American official on background. "We understand that after the exchange of fire ⁠earlier today, Israel and Hezbollah are ⁠now in a ceasefire."

A Hezbollah leader said in a statement to CNN that while the group's fighters will respect the ceasefire, the movement and actions of Israeli forces in Lebanon will receive "a suitable response."

The IDF said that it will continue its operations in Lebanon.

"These attacks by Hezbollah are violations of the ceasefire. They prove that Hezbollah’s goals remain the same: to remain on Israel’s borders and to plan and carry out attacks on our civilians," said an IDF spokesman. "This is not a reality we can accept, and this is exactly why the IDF continues to operate in Southern Lebanon."

Earlier this week, Trump bemoaned the loss of life in Lebanon — where the health authority reports that 3,980 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since March 2 — saying that "the Lebanon piece is something we'll have to work on a little bit."

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'A thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.'

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'Too many people are being killed': Trump blasts Israel over Lebanon strikes as Iran peace deal hangs in the balance



President Donald Trump has been highly critical this week of Israel's conduct in Lebanon — especially after deadly Israeli airstrikes in Beirut over the weekend nearly blew up the U.S.-Iran peace deal.

"Too many people are being killed," Trump said at the G7 summit in France on Tuesday. "And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah."

'The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon.'

Between March 2 and June 14, at least 3,783 people were killed and 11,699 were wounded during Israel's campaign against Hezbollah on Lebanese soil, according to Lebanon's health ministry. At least 28 Israeli soldiers have reportedly perished in the conflict, and four civilians were killed in Hezbollah attacks.

The Lebanese government estimated that by late April, over 21,000 Lebanese homes had been destroyed and over 40,000 housing units had been damaged.

After Israel launched new strikes in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday, Trump resumed his criticism, stating both that "the Lebanon piece is something we'll have to work on a little bit" and that Israel could "do a much better job on it."

Trump further marveled that there still is a Lebanon "with all they have been through" and emphasized that there must be an end to the war in the country.

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After multiple outlets published what was alleged to have been a leaked draft of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, a senior Trump administration official read in a briefing with reporters a transcript of the actual "Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran," which apparently states in the first of 14 points:

The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.

The deal also requires, among other things, that:

  • the U.S. and Iran respect one another's sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs;
  • the U.S. and Iran commit to negotiating and securing a final deal within the next 60 days;
  • the U.S. remove its naval blockade within the next 30 days and remove its forces from the proximity of Iranian territory within 30 days of the final deal;
  • Iran make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days "only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa";
  • the U.S. will work with regional partners "to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran";
  • the U.S. will take steps to terminate all types of sanctions against Iran;
  • Iran reaffirm that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons, and the two parties will further discuss the matter of enrichment and related matters "based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal";
  • the U.S. Department of Treasury will, upon the signing of the MOU, issue waivers for the exportation of Iranian oil, petroleum products, and derivatives and all associated services until sanctions are fully terminated;
  • the U.S. will take steps to "make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU."

While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have reportedly already signed the MOU digitally, a formal signing is scheduled to take place on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Inside the rift: Trump claims Netanyahu has 'no f**king judgment' after strike threatens Iran peace deal



President Donald Trump announced on Sunday evening the finalization of an agreement that will tentatively bring an end to America's 15-week war with Iran.

"The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!" Trump noted in a Truth Social post. "I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade. Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!"

'I couldn't believe it.'

In a subsequent post, the president said that this "Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region."

The memorandum of understanding was confirmed by Iranian officials as well as by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has been acting as a mediator.

"Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon," Sharif posted to X a few minutes before Trump's Truth Social announcement. "The official signing ceremony will be on Friday, 19 June in Switzerland. We would like to thank the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran for their commitment to finding a diplomatic solution to the conflict."'

The news was welcomed by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun — who expressed hope that "these understandings being transformed into practical steps" may "put a definitive end to the cycle of violence" — and by other leaders around the globe.

Iran hawks, particularly in Israel, are not similarly keen over the prospect of ending the conflict in this fashion.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, for instance, rushed to condemn the deal, claiming it was "bad for Israel and for the entire free world. Period."

Smotrich noted further that Israel "will have to continue the campaign to topple the regime ourselves and in creative ways."

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Destroyed building in Nabatieh, Lebanon. Abbas FAKIH/AFP/Getty Images

Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, also advocated for keeping the conflict alive, stating:

We are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security, and it does not bind us in any way. We must not compromise on anything less than the dismantling of Hezbollah, we must not withdraw from any territory that our fighters have captured and cleared of terror infrastructure, we must not return to a situation where thousands of terrorists sit on the fences of northern settlements, and certainly we must not remain silent for a moment in the face of fire directed at the State of Israel.

Alleged attacks on Hezbollah — such as those championed by Ben-Gvir — nearly blew up the peace deal over the weekend, just as escalations in Israel's offensive in Lebanon critically strained negotiations earlier this month.

Trump told Axios that the deadly Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday "shook it up. It delayed the signing by a few hours. It was supposed to be now. Now it is scheduled for a few hours from now."

The American president — who reportedly raced to save the deal as Iranians were threatening retaliation — said that he had been shocked to learn of the attack from his advisers.

"It is so bad — I couldn't believe it. An hour before we are supposed to sign the deal," said Trump.

Trump figured the attack — which took place after Hezbollah launched a drone attack on Northern Israel that reportedly caused neither injuries nor damage — was disproportionate. Weeks after calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "f**king crazy," Trump once again blasted the foreign leader.

"Why did Bibi have to do a f**king attack? I was so pissed off," said Trump. "I let him know. He has no f**king judgment. I let him know that."

Trump expressed frustration with Netanyahu in another interview on Sunday, telling the New York Times that the Israeli prime minister, whose criminal trial is ongoing, is "a very difficult guy."

"And to be honest with you," continued Trump, "he should be very thankful to us for doing this. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn’t be around for two hours."

Netanyahu's former communications adviser, Aviv Bushinsky, emphasized that the Israeli prime minister "needs Trump" and that "evangelicals and many members of the Republican Party" will prevent his relationship with Trump from falling apart.

While Netanyahu has yet to publicly address the deal, Israeli officials told Ynet News that Netanyahu made clear to Trump that Israel will not withdraw from Lebanon.

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US Apache helicopter crashes near Strait of Hormuz on 100th day of Iran war; Trump says end in sight



A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed near the coast of Oman while patrolling regional waters on Monday as the war in Iran has now crested the 100-day mark.

According to U.S. Central Command, the two pilots were rescued at 7:33 p.m. ET — within approximately two hours of the crash — and are in "stable condition." CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Timothy Hawkins said that a U.S. Navy surface drone "found and rescued the crew from the water."

'I call all the shots.'

The rescue operation was led by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the 82nd Airborne Division and aided by U.S. Air Force and Navy units, including U.S. 5th Fleet's Task Force 59.

After attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City, President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters that "the pilots are fine" and said that nobody was injured in the crash. He would not specify what prompted the crash.

CENTCOM noted that an investigation into the cause of the crash is underway.

The Apache is hardly the first American aircraft lost during the conflict with Iran.

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According to a May 13 report from the Congressional Research Service, 42 fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, including drones, have reportedly been lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury. The lost or damaged aircraft include:

  • three F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft shot down by friendly fire over Kuwait early in the conflict and the F-15E shot down during combat operations over Iran;
  • one F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft damaged by Iranian ground fire;
  • one A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack aircraft, which crashed after sustaining enemy fire over Iran; and
  • seven KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft, five of which were damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia during an Iranian missile and drone attack, and two of which were involved in an accident over friendly airspace.

The aircrew of all of the lost or damaged aircrew mentioned above survived with the exception of the six service members killed in the March 12 Stratotanker crash.

In his remarks to the press on Monday evening, Trump said that a deal to end the war is imminent.

Late last month, negotiators representing the U.S. and Iran appeared poised to advance the cause of peace between their respective nations, extend the fragile ceasefire that first went into effect in April, and open the Strait of Hormuz again to trade.

The peace talks quickly began to unravel, however, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's June 1 announcement that Israel was going to ramp up attacks in Lebanon and conduct a new round of strikes in Beirut.

Iranian officials subsequently indicated that Tehran was backing out of the talks, citing Israel's offensive in Lebanon.

Trump responded to the apparent sabotage of his deal by boxing Netanyahu's ears, calling him "f**king crazy" and insisting upon greater restraint. The American president managed to salvage the talks in part by securing a tentative truce between Israel and Lebanon.

This truce would not, however, hold.

Late last week, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem characterized the ceasefire plan agreed by Israel and Lebanon as a "roadmap to annihilate part of the Lebanese people" and said that "as long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue."

On Sunday, Israel attacked Beirut — an attack that Netanyahu's office said was "in response to Hezbollah's firing at Israeli territory." Iran responded by firing missiles at Israel. Israel, in turn, attacked "military and economic targets throughout Iran," Netanyahu said.

As things were cooling off, Trump told reporters on Monday that Iran and Israel are "going to just leave each other alone for another week or something. It's been going on for a long time — you could say about 3,000 years if you really want, but certainly it's been going on for 47 years."

"We're in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow in any way, shape, or form nuclear weapons, et cetera, and the strait will open up right away," said Trump. "It'll open up immediately upon signing, which could be in two or three days."

Earlier in the day, Trump noted that the negotiations were proceeding, "subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way."

When asked by the Financial Times (U.K.) over the weekend whether Netanyahu would ultimately have to accept a deal with Iran, Trump said, "He won't have a choice."

The president emphasized, "I call the shots. I call all the shots. [Netanyahu] doesn't call the shots."

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