Brigitte Gabriel - Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

"Part memoir and part analysis of the social, political, and religious factors that created the current situation in the Middle East, Gabriel issues a clear warning."

The Tampa Tribune

"A compelling and captivating personal story with a powerful lesson about threats to freedom in our time."

R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-1995

"Brigitte Gabriels story is at once intensely personal and possessing global significance.... the story of her family and her childhood encapsulates the threat that faces the entire free world today. Brigitte Gabriels words should be read, and studied carefully, by all the law enforcement and government officials of the Westas well as by everyone who values freedom."

Robert Spencer, author of The Politically Incorrect

Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

"Her writing is eloquent and her passion tremendous."

Publishers Weekly

"Gabriel believes the West is complacent about the threat posed by radical Islam. She learned while growing up Christian in Lebanon that Islamofascists are seriousand if we want to survive we better take them seriously. She speaks with the passion of a survivor who has seen death and destruction firsthandand doesnt want America to suffer the same future as Lebanon."

World Magazine

"Brigitte Gabriel eloquently reminds America what is truly at stake in this struggle against terrorism: our families, our way of life, and our hopes. Ms. Gabriels personal account of her own experience is riveting, compelling, and spellbinding. This is a must read for the entire American public... Because They Hate contains monumental revelations that will shock and disturb you. But it is also a story of an indomitable spiritBrigittesthat will move you."

Steve Emerson, author of American Jihad:

The Terrorists Living Amongst Us, executive director, the

Investigative Project on Terrorism

"Because They Hate is powerful, passionate, and full of divine purpose."

Dr. John C. Hagee, senior pastor, Cornerstone Church,

author of Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World

"Because They Hate should be read by all to understand radical Islam.... This book gives dire warning of what is to come if the democratic and Western world does not take responsible action to protect its people and societies. The United States is the primary target as Islamic radicalism attempts to spread its worldwide dominance."

Paul E. Vallely, Maj. General U.S. Army (Ret.), FOX News

Channel Military Analyst, and coauthor of Endgame:

The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

[Brigitte Gabriels] writing is a critical wake-up call to Americans as we face the threat of takeover by jihadists. We are glad to be able to help her share her story with God-fearing, patriotic Americans who care about the truth and want to learn about the threat every nation throughout the world is facing from radical Islam."

Paul F. Crouch, Jr., vice president of administration,

Trinity Broadcasting Network

"Gabriel makes her case, but also offers a sound and powerful program of what we have to do as a nation and as individuals to stave off defeat by radical Islam."

The Bulletin

BECAUSE THEY HATE

BECAUSE THEY HATE

A SURVIVOR OF ISLAMIC TERROR

WARNS AMERICA

Brigitte Gabriel

St. Martins Griffin New York

BECAUSE THEY HATE. Copyright 2006 by Brigitte Gabriel. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martins Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gabriel, Brigitte.

Because they hate : a survivor of Islamic terror warns America / Brigitte Gabriel.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35838-9

ISBN-10: 0-312-35838-5

1. TerrorismLebanon. 2. Victims of terrorismLebanon. 3. Terrorism Religious aspectsIslam. I. Title.

HV6433.L4G33 2006

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2006013500

First St. Martins Griffin Edition: January 2008

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IN HONOR OF

My mother, Bahia, my father, Nicholas, and

all the victims of religious-bigoted terror.

DEDICATED TO

My pride and joy, Jessica and Virginia,

in the hope that their generation may live

under freedom and democracy.

Radical Islams modern war of world domination has been picking up momentum, with its universal rallying cry of Allahu Akbar accompanying each act of terror and destruction. It first began after the Arab nations that were artificially carved out after World War II settled into internal despondency under despots and monarchs appointed by the Allied powers. It slowly fermented through the 1950s and 1960s. By November 1979 it was well on its way when the Iranians took over the American embassy in Tehran.

But no one really noticed or cared.

I noticed when I was a ten-year-old girl in Lebanon, and Muslim rockets exploded in my bedroom on a November night four years before the American hostages were taken. With my life on the line, I really cared, while the rest of the world just watched. My problem was that I wasnt an American, the marines werent coming to save me, and we Lebanese Christiannon-Muslim infidelswere being labeled the aggressors by the press. Muslims dominated and now control Lebanon. Christian infidels paid the price then; and for their indifference and shortsightedness, infidels worldwide are paying the price now.

The civil war in Lebanon was pushed off U.S. front pages by the hostage situation in Iran; the obsessive media exposure turned the 444-day captivity of diplomats and embassy workers into a nationwide trauma and a national disgrace. Finally, the marines came to Lebanon and got bloodied, and the U.S. went away to lick its wounds. Despite extensive news coverage and obvious implications, the war in Lebanon and the hostage crisis were never recognized for what they were: declarations of war on Western civilization by radical Islam.

Today, radical Islams war rages with varying degrees of intensity throughout the world, not just against Christians and Jews in the West, but also against Hindus, Buddhists, Copts, indeed all non-Muslim infidels. The radical Islamists' degree 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, France, 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, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United States of America, Yemen, and Zanzibar. The rest of the world is held hostage to fear.