Resumo de Because They Hate: A Survivor Of Islamic Terror Warns America

Ms. Brigitte Gabriel founded and directs the non profit organization American Congress for Truth.Org to provide information and education regarding the threat of radical Islam to world peace. She witnessed the insidious cancerous growth of radical Islam in her county that destroyed her family?s way of life. She views the destruction of Lebanon?s civilization by Islamic terror as a microcosm of what can happen in the West and wrote Because They Hate to expose this imminent threat.Because They Hate is essentially a partial autobiography and begins in 1974 when Ms. Gabriel turned 10 years old. She and her father and mother lived in Lebanon, whose capital, Beirut, was called the Paris of the Middle East. Lebanon was an island of freedom in a sea of Islamic tyranny and oppression, at least until November 1975, when Lebanese Muslims and Palestinians declared jihad on Christians. Prior to that year, Lebanon, although part of the Arab world, was much like America and the West of today, with Christian customs, a modern lifestyle, democratic form of government, schools of higher learning, and open borders. Lebanon?s democratic government reflected the mixture of its religious sects: Christian, Sunni Muslim, and Shiite Muslim with the Lebanese parliament set up with a ratio of six Christian deputies to five Muslim deputies, to reflect the country?s population. At any give time, one might have heard church bells as well as prayers sounding from the towers of mosques. However, leading up to 1975, the very openness and liberties of Lebanon had allowed the Islamic side of the culture to gain strength and allow enemies of the society to gain control of its government.The beginning of the end, from Ms. Gabriel?s perspective, probably began in 1968 as a result of the Arab?s Six Day War with Israel, when Lebanon accepted its second wave of Palestinian refugees (the first waves of refugees arrived in 1948 and 1949, when the Arab countries surrounding Israel took issue with its declaration of independence and ended up losing the war they started). By 1970, Muslims had become the majority in the government of Lebanon as a result of the arrival of so many refugee Muslims and due to the extremely high birth rate among Muslims when compared to Christians or other religions. In January 1976 the Lebanese army began to come apart along sectarian lines, with Muslims in the majority. The shift in power toward Muslim dominance of the army resulted in Muslims in Lebanon turning against their Christian neighbors. Christians became nothing but kuffar, dirty infidel Christians. By 1976 only one town in Lebanon was under Christian control, the town of Klaia in southern Lebanon. The Muslim army and Palestinians proceeded to setup artillery in the yards of Christians, including Ms. Garbriel?s family?s yard north of Klaia and fire into Klaia and Israel farther south. In 1978, Israel had enough of the attacks of the Muslims and Palestinians from Lebanon when a squad of Palestinian terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel?s northern coast. Israel drove the Palestinians out of artillery and rocket range and assisted the Lebanese army leader who commanded the Christian soldiers. They drove the Palestinians north of the Litani River, strengthened the South Lebanese Army, and withdrew. Ms. Gabriel speaks of the beginning of modern terrorism pioneered by Hezbollah (financed by Iran) on April 18, 1983, when a truck packed with explosives blew up in the driveway of the United States embassy in Beirut killing 63 people, then again on October 23rd when the US Marine Corps barracks was struck killing 241 marines?and the U.S. military packed up and left. When the Americans left, the Christians were slaughtered. She says the American?s departure was not lost on Osama bin Laden.Ms. Gabriel landed a job as secretary to Israeli General Shlomo to type contracts for Lebanese doctors being hired to work in his hospital. She continued working for the hospital as a secretary and developed a friendship with an engineer who worked for Middle East Television. Ms. Gabriel assisted the news anchor of Middle East Television (a Lebanese American) with his Arabic grammar and landed a job as a production assistant for the station in Jerusalem in 1984. Among many issues she covers in her book, Ms. Gabriel provides insight into CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations; the Islamic Affairs Department of the embassy of Saudi Arabia; the Muslim American Society (MAS); the Islam tactic of taqiyya or kithman, meaning the acceptable act of lying to further the cause of Islam; she draws attention to the Hamas charter published in 1988 that calls Rotary Club and Lions Club members enemies to be destroyed (Article 22); and she exposes the intrusion of Islam into America?s colleges and universities through the vehicle of Middle Eastern studies programs.In 1985, Ms. Gabriel became the news anchor for Middle East Television?s World News broadcast seen throughout the Middle East. Through her work as a news anchor, Ms. Gabriel witnessed the growth of Islam across the Middle East, into Europe and now America. She is now a citizen of the U.S. and continues warning America of the Islamic threat.

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