Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

In this frightening but pertinent and timeous warning this courageous woman of truth and vision, Brigitte Gabriel, warns the USA and the world of the danger faced by Islamo-Fascism, and how ignoring or appeasing this threat will result in the ruthless and bloody islamification of the USA and other Western societies unless we face this cancer and act now.

Gabriel points out how "Today, radical Islam's war rages with varying degrees of intensity throughout the world, not only against Christians and Jews in the West but also against Hindus, Buddhists, Copts, indeed all non-Muslim infidels. The radical Islamists decree of zealotry even has them attacking other denominations within Islam itself. Islamic radicals are instigating and perpetuating terrorist campaigns, insurgencies, civil wars, minority suppression and ethnic cleansing and/or genocide in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chad, Chechnya, Dagestan, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kashmir, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, the Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, territories administered by the Palestinian authority, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, the United States of America, Yemen and Zanzibar".


Brigitte Gabriel, lived as a ten year old girl through the terror as of Muslims from across the world flooded into Lebanon to wage a bloody and ruthless jihad against Lebanese Christians in which over 60 000 Lebanese Christian men, women and children were butchered. A horrific exercise in ethnic cleansing that was ignored by the world and by those who's self-proclaimed task was to stand up for human rights.

Gabriel recounts her idyllic childhood in a peaceful and cosmopolitan land before the PLO and Lebanese Muslims launched a war against Lebanon's Christian population.
They were joined by Muslim terrorists pouring into Lebanon from as far afield as Somalia, Syria, Iran, Jordan, Iraq, Libya and Egypt. Lebanon was turned overnight into a killing field.
Christian leftists who fought alongside the Palestinians for greater Islamic control over Lebanon, were so-blinded by their ideologically motivated self-righteousness that they did not see that they too as much targets as the general Christian population.
In Lebanon every person carried an identity document that identified their religion and what sect of religion they belonged to. Cars were stopped at PLO or Muslim, and if the Palestinians or Muslims realized that the occupants the cars were sprayed with bullets and the entire families inside, killed, with shouts of "Allahu Akbar".

Gabriel remembers her years as a frightened and starving child in a bomb shelter as missiles rained on her village from a nearby Muslim town.

Gabriel outlines the history of the 1982 Lebanon War from the perspective a victim of Palestinian/ Islamic ethnic cleansing and explains how Israel's eventual intervention (in response to murderous attacks by the PLO from Lebanon into Israel), was welcomed by the Christian Lebanese desperate to be rescued from the hideous genocide the Palestinians and Muslims, with the support of Syria, were inflicting on them.
Gabriel explains how Israel provided health care to all Lebanese, Christian and Muslims, and even Palestinians. They were treated free of charge in Israeli hospitals.
After Gabriel's mother was critically injured in a PLO shelling attack, she was transported to an Israeli hospital, where Gabriel recounts her amazement at the great kindness and love shown her by Israelis, who the Islamo-Leftist media had been so demonized in the eyes of Lebanese population by the Arab media and Islamo-Leftist PR propaganda machine.

Gabriel discovered how the Palestinian propaganda could not have been further from the truth, and that she had been told a fabricated lie by her government and culture about the Israel that was the opposite of reality
Israeli Jews were the only people in the world who realized what the Christian Lebanese were going through.

The Israelis were able to bring peace to the area and drive out the terrorists. Lebanon had been turned into a base of terror, but as always Israel was condemned for defending itself and the victims (both the Israelis and Christian Lebanese) were painted by the world media as the criminals.
The skirmish at the Sabra and Shatilla PLO camps in October 1982, in which several hundred Muslim terrorists from around the world, were killed (and a few civilian casualties) in a retaliation action by Christian Lebanese fighters provoked a hysterical world reaction. But the massacred of Christian Lebanese villagers, and the mass murder of Lebanese infants, children and women by the PLO and Muslim Lebanese for the seven years before that had elicited no reaction round the world whatsoever, as their continued atrocities would be ignored in the years to come.
She explains how the media fabricated lies and played a role as part of the PLO's propaganda machine in Lebanon and the The Land of Israel.

The second part of the book describes the presence of massive Islamic networks in the USA, how Arabic petro-dollars and nihilistic left wing ideologues use the media, civil society and universities in the USA to prepare the Islamic assault on the world's freedoms and demonize Israel and the West.
At universities across the USA students are being brainwashed in an anti-Western and Israel-hating diet that is shaping a hate-filled new generation. At university campuses murder of children is condoned and openly seen as justified by Muslim and hard left students.
Those who oppose the Islamo-Leftist nihilistic agenda are prevented from speaking at universities.

She clearly illustrates how Islamic radicals have made their goals of seizing power and imposing radical Islam clear to all. You can't read this book and not be ware of the threat the free world faces.
We are faced with a threat to the world as great as that faced by the Nazis in 1938, with the potential of death and destruction on a far greater scale than that of the Holocaust.
Gabriel explains how the USA and the West is being strangled by it's own political correctness.
As she so correctly points out : "There is no time for any more delusions. There is too much at stake. America needs to wake up from a gullible state of ignorant bliss, and start learning Islamic history. We must expose the truth and must get involved in ensuring that our elected officials have our support to throw political correctness in the garbage. We must clearly state that we are sick and tired of the lies and deception that we want to know the truth about the enemy we are fighting, and what we can do to win this war. Only then will we have a chance of winning this battle. Once our elected officials know that they can count on our support and not be demonized for stating the facts, they will be more courageous about coming out in the open and declaring war on our enemy."

Books like this are always fun, when you read the reviews of them on Amazon or other places. The reviews are always "objective", which means that there are a bunch that give the book five stars, a bunch one star, and hardly any in between. Everyone either loves it or hates it.

The current book, by Brigitte Gabriel, is a semi-memoir/editorial which mostly deals with Islam. The author was a child when the Lebanese Civil War started, and she experienced hardship and suffering (she and her parents lost their house, and she and her mother were injured in attacks) at the hands of local Muslim extremists who she says wanted to exterminate Christian communities in Lebanon. She wound up fleeing to Israel (her parents were elderly, and died) and then came to the U.S. after marrying an American journalist. She recounts all of this in the first hundred pages or so of this book, spending a lot of time on her childhood. As her story progresses, she pauses to inject asides on current affairs involving the extremist Arab world, then returns to her story. By the time she's in Israel marrying her boyfriend, the editorials have taken over the memoir, and the rest of the book is one long editorial and call to action.

Gabriel's point is rather simple and straightforward. Islam isn't composed exclusively of extremists, but moderates don't do much to prevent extremism in their community, and do a lot to assist the extremists. She cites the lack of condemnation regarding various episodes since 9/11, and the amount of protest at various actions of the U.S. government (eg Gitmo, invasion of Iraq, trials of various terrorists, racial profiling, etc.) as evidence that Muslim groups in the U.S. are more interested in supporting extremists than they are in condemning their actions.

The book itself is somewhat poorly organized, and has a conversational tone to it which gives it immediacy, but also robs it of some of the authority it would otherwise have. The author also on occasion ignores aspects of the subjects she's talking about which don't advance her thesis. So for instance, she simplifies the nature of the Lebanese Civil War to Muslim vs. Christian, when it was sometimes not that. Frankly, I find the whole argument a bit tiring, in this regard. One of the reviewers of this book comments that Lebanon has had an election (in which Hezbollah got a large number of votes) and then insists that this makes Lebanon a democracy. Usually, more than one election, especially in a country like that, is necessary to prove that a democracy exists.

The author is, like many immigrants to this country, somewhat more patriotic than native-born citizens, and more impatient with those who complain about their rights being violated. Her list of things to be done in the back of the book would probably be viewed as outrageous by anyone other than strong conservatives here in the states. Especially outrageous is the instruction she wants to give to make sure that our children's textbooks aren't explicitly anti-American. While it's not a bad idea, you'd never get it past liberals or even moderates here in the states.

I liked this book for the most part, and other than the problems I had with the way it was constructed, thought it well-written. Amusing to see everyone be at one end or the other on it.

Every citizen of the United States should read Brigitte Gabriel's book "Because They Hate". It will open the eyes of everyone and help them understand the enemy we are fighting. The American mind cannot grasp the evilness and the mindset of our enemy because we are a culture of life not death. These people will stop at nothing to take us over and kill us. They have infiltrated our colleges and universities and Arab millions are being funneled into the U.S. The extremist Muslims are here now planning their next move. Country after country have been taken over by them. America needs to wake up! We are next!

Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns AmericaEvery American needs to be educated on this subject to learn what is ahead for the USA if we aren't alert and knowledgeable.

I received my book in a remarkably short time. It was just what I ordered and I wasn't disappointed. Haven't had a chance to read it as yet, but will get to it soon.