___ BECAUSE THEY HATE: A SURVIVOR OF ISLAMIC TERROR WARNS AMERICA -- 3 SHORT EXCERPTS BEGIN HERE ___
Three brief excerpts from the 2008 edition of Brigitte Gabriel's book Because They Hate: A Survivor Of Islamic Terror Warns America (copyright 2006). . .
The Islamic community throughout the world is outreproducing Christians and Jews almost seven to one.12 It will be a matter of a few generations before they can get voting power to challenge state laws and the Constitution of the United States. Islam is already the fastest-growing religion in Europe. Driven by immigration and high birthrates, the number of Muslims on the continent has tripled in the last thirty years. Most demographers forecast a similar or even higher rate of growth in the coming decades.13 It is important to note that the world's fastest-growing Muslim populations are found in Europe and in the United States, where they are the second- or third-largest religious communities.14 This is the beginning of America's and the West's war with radical Islam. This demographic shift is an exact duplication of what happened in Lebanon and is already having a huge effect throughout Europe. People like me, who come from the Middle East and have seen how the radical Islamic agenda started and spread in Lebanon and ultimately destroyed equality among religions and changed the fabric of Lebanon, see and read the writing on the wall in America and the West today. Americans need to listen: their country is at stake. I lost my country of birth to Islamic fundamentalism and don't want to lose my country of adoption to the same fate.
-- Brigitte Gabriel, 1 paragraph from Chapter 1, on page 23
. . . The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians by the Muslims of the Middle East.
They started massacring the Christians in city after city. The Western media seldom reported these horrific events. Most of the press was located in West Beirut, controlled by the PLO and the Muslims. One of the most ghastly acts was the massacre in the Christian city of Damour,1 where thousands of Christians were slaughtered like sheep. The combined forces of the PLO and the Muslims would enter a bomb shelter and see a mother and a father hiding with a little baby. They would tie one leg of the baby to the mother and one leg to the father and pull the parents apart, splitting the child in half. A close friend of mine became mentally disturbed after they made her slaughter her own son in a chair. They tied her to a chair, tied a knife to her hand, and holding her hand, forced her to cut her own sixteen-year old son's throat. After killing him they raped her two daughters in front of her. They would urinate and defecate on the altars of churches using the pages of the Bible as toilet paper before shooting and destroying the church. Americans just don't realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist. They refuse to see it even when they look today at video footage of churches being burned in Iraq or different parts of the world or synagogues being destroyed in Gaza.
I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of the beheading of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, or the many other hostages that were beheaded in Iraq. We as a society need to see the type of enemy we are fighting. People have been so sheltered in this country that they have not paid attention to what has been going on for the last twenty-some years. And today, even after the attack of September 11, people still cannot fathom this type of barbarity could happen here.
-- Brigitte Gabriel, 2 paragraphs from Chapter 3, pp. 35-36
On September 11, 2001, nineteen Muslim terrorists gave us death. Citizens of the most powerful country on earth watched in horror as a handful of barbaric men used airplanes as missiles and flew them into skyscrapers and the Pentagon, our symbol of power. These men not only brought the Twin Towers down, they brought America to its knees. Wall Street froze, the stock market tumbled, and national air traffic ground to a halt.
Muslims have been sounding the call to war for the last thirty-some years, but until 9/11 America was not listening. Americans were not watching the evening news and were not interested in documentaries about world affairs, nor were they listening to radical Muslims proudly and repeatedly announcing their intention to destroy our civilization. On 9/11, and for days afterward, there was rejoicing all over the Arab world.1 Arabs were dancing in the streets. They were dancing in the streets of Syria. They were dancing in the streets of Egypt, an ally to which we yearly give $2 billion of our hard-earned money. They were dancing in the streets of the Palestinian territories, for which our government brokered a peace deal with Yasser Arafat and the Israelis, and committed millions per year for their development. They were dancing in the streets of Lebanon and Jordan. They were dancing because the World Trade Center had collapsed and the Pentagon was burning. They were handing out candy and shouting "Allahu Akbar" because thousands of Americans had died.
Both the attacks themselves and their glorification in the name of God are incomprehensible to the vast majority of Americans. Americans asked why people would rejoice at the loss of innocent life. There is a three-word answer that is both simple and complex: because they hate. Theyhate our way of life. Theyhate our freedom. Theyhate our democracy. Theyhate the practice of every religion but their own. They don't just disagree. Theyhate. Not just Judaism. Not just Christianity. In various parts of the world today, Islamists are also waging terror war against Hindus, Buddhists, and all other "infidels." The imposition of Islam upon the entire world is not merely their goal. It is their religious duty. They are following the word of their holy-book, the Koran, which is the guide tohatred of infidels, waging war, and victory through slaughter."
-- Brigitte Gabriel, 3 paragraphs from Chapter 9, pp. 144-145
Endnotes for Chapter 1 excerpt:
12 Yashiko Sagamori, "The Mythical Muslim Extremist," Isralert.com, http://yashiko.middleeastfacts.com/MME_eng.html
13 David Masci, "An Uncertain Road: Muslims and the Future of Europe," The PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life, http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=60.
14 Alliance for Security, "What Defines the Muslim World?" http://www.allianceforsecurity.org/muslim_world.
Endnote for Chapter 3 excerpt:
1 "Unforgotten Massacre: Damour," January 20, 1976, http://www.geocities.com/damour1976/index1.html; M. Kahl, "Yasir Arafat's Planned Christian Genocide," http://www.chretiens-et-juifs.org/article.php?voir%5B%5D=594&voir%5B%5D=3532.
Endnote for Chapter 9 excerpt:
1 Cameron S. Brown, "The Shot Seen Around the World: The Middle East Reacts to September 11," Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal 5, no. 4 (December 2001), http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2001/issue4/jv5n4a4.htm.
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