ACT for America merged Christian evangelicals with right-wing Zionists into mosque protest groups.

Evidence

At the grassroots level, Brigitte Gabriel launched hundreds of local chapters of ACT for America across the country, which mobilize protests and media campaigns against mosques, Muslim American organizations, and Muslim American leaders. Gabriel, a Lebanese American Christian woman, previously worked for the South Lebanon Army, which served as Israel’s proxy in formerly occupied southern Lebanon. Her association with right-wing Zionists merged with anti-Muslim Evangelical Christians to create ACT for America. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 797

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Aziz’s broader thesis about how Christian-Zionist alliances construct ‘the racial Muslim’ as a political category, and echoes the Lebanon proxy-war background. — connects to: The Islamophobia network spans neocons, Zionists, Christian Right, and ex-Muslims
• QUESTION: How did the South Lebanon Army experience shape Gabriel’s particular anti-Islam framing beyond generic evangelical anti-Muslim sentiment?