Book Review: “Because They Hate” — The Barbarism the West Refuses to Name

 

Brigitte Gabriel’s Because They Hate isn’t just a book, it’s a bloody siren, shrieking across the Atlantic, warning a decadent, distracted West of the civilizational fire licking at its doorstep. And like the Trojan priest Laocoön, Gabriel is ignored not because she is wrong, but because she is right. Gabriel is not an ivory tower theorist. She is a survivor. Raised in Christian Lebanon, she witnessed firsthand the brutal transformation of her country from a Mediterranean jewel into a jihadist wasteland. Her voice is raw, urgent, and soaked in the blood of reality, a voice our cowardly elites would rather silence than hear. This book is not polite. It doesn’t bow before multicultural pieties. It doesn’t genuflect before the altar of moral relativism. It names the enemy: radical Islam, fueled by a supremacist theology and funded by petrodollars, marching through the world with the same fire and fury that animated the Mongols, the Ottomans, and the Nazis. And yet, the West yawns. Gabriel's story is one of bombs, bullets, and bunkers. She grew up in a shelter, not a safe space. When she speaks of terror, she speaks with the authority of someone who’s seen it, not someone who’s read about it between soy lattes in a Harvard seminar. Her testimony cuts like a scimitar through the fog of Western delusion. But the genius of Because They Hate is not just in its exposure of Islamist barbarism. It is in its exposure of our own civilizational rot. The multicultural Left, the sniveling appeasers in the media, the craven political class, all complicit. They refuse to hear her not because she lies, but because the truth she speaks is too masculine, too Western, too righteous. It makes cowards sweat. This book is a trumpet blast to the real men of the West, those with spines still intact. We are being warned by a woman braver than most of our leaders. We can either heed her warning, stand up, and defend our civilization… or kneel and watch it burn. Because They Hate is not for the faint-hearted. But if you still believe in the West, if you still believe in truth, strength, and the right to exist without submitting to the sword, then read this book. And let it ignite you.