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