“BECAUSE THEY HATE” by Brigitte Gabriel

Review #85

A SURVIVOR OF ISLAMIC TERROR WARNS AMERICA!
American Congress for Truth founder, Brigitte Gabriel rebukes the American public for being "weak, asleep or careless" in the face of Muslim terrorism.

This review is taken directly from the book description page:

“Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. In 1975, she was ten years old and living in Southern Lebanon, when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against the Lebanese Christians. Lebanon was the only Christian influenced country in the Middle East, and the Lebanese Civil War was the first front in what has become the worldwide jihad of fundamentalist Islam against non-Muslim peoples. For seven years, Brigitte and her parents lived in an underground bomb shelter. They had no running water or electricity and very little food; at times they were reduced to boiling grass to survive.

Because They Hate is a political wake-up call told through a very personal memoir frame. Brigitte warns that the U.S. is threatened by fundamentalist Islamic theology in the same way Lebanon was and radical Islam will stop at nothing short of domination of all non-Muslim countries. Gabriel saw this mission start in Lebanon and she refuses to stand silently by while it happens here. She sees, in the West, a lack of understanding and a blatant ignorance of the ways and thinking of the Middle East. She also points out mistakes the West has made in consistently underestimating the single-mindedness with which fundamentalist Islam has pursued its goals over the past thirty years.

Fiercely articulate and passionately committed, Gabriel tells her own story as well as outlines the history, social movements, and religious divisions that have led to this critical historical conflict.”

Emotionally, this is a very hard book to read. It took me more than a couple of weeks to read because I had to take a break from it periodically.

However, you will read this book if you are interested in the future of this country, your future and especially… the future of your children. It is a memoir and therefore, by definition, a biased view of the subject. So, it will be up to you to decide whether or not to accept Gabriel’s heart-felt warning!