On February 9, Fox News hosted Brigitte Gabriel to give commentary on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to reinstate President Trump’s Muslim. Gabriel, the founder of an anti-Muslim extremist organization, used the opportunity to propagate Islamophobic lies. 

Gabriel is the founder of ACT! for America, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says has “eagerly tapped into a groundswell of anti-Muslim rage and done what it could to fan the flames.” She appeared on Fox several times after the Charlie Hebdo attack, despite her history of extreme Islamophobia. Gabriel was a guest on the January 7, 2015, edition of Hannity, where she said that Muslims in Europe “started multiplying” after World War II and did not assimilate and that Europe is “paying the price” because it “ignored the cancer growing within its body when it was at Stage Two.” In her appearance on the January 8, 2015, edition of The Kelly File, she argued that the “Islamic religion” forbids Muslims to assimilate.

In September 2014, Gabriel told an audience at the Values Voter Summit that “180 million to 300 million” Muslims are “radical Islamists who are willing to strap bombs on their bodies and walk into this room and blow us all up to smithereens.” In June 2014, Gabriel berated a Muslim student who had criticized members of a Heritage Foundation panel on Islam, calling her a liar and saying, “Your loyalty is somewhere else. It's time we see more patriotism from the Muslim community and less terrorism.” During the 2016 presidential campaign, Gabriel accused Hillary Clinton of trying to “appeal to the Islamic vote” because the father of a Muslim mass shooter was seen at one of her rallies. In July 2016, Gabriel also claimed that “the majority of Muslims around the world … do not believe in man-made law” and are thus “not compatible with our constitution.” A prominent Middle East expert and editor of The Oxford History of Islam called Gabriel “a professional Muslim basher.” From the February 9 edition of Fox News’ The First 100 Days: