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Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror Hardcover – November 16, 2006

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A Cairo-raised daughter of a high-ranking Egyptian military officer describes how she was raised to hate Americans and Jewish people and submit to dictatorship, her decision to relocate to America as a result of her increasing concern about the violence in her culture, and her efforts to promote peace and tolerance at the risk of her own safety.

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"Nonie Darwish a woman of great courage with an amazing story to tell.... Readers who pick up her book will find their views of the world irrevocably changed before they put it down."
-David Horowitz, author of Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

"All Americans should note well the reasons why Muslims now consider her an 'infidel' -- this could be the most important lesson non-Muslims in the West will ever learn."
-Robert Spencer, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

"Indispensable insight into the world of Islamic radicalism and jihad.... This inspiring tale of redemption will serve as an uplifting reminder to proponents of democratic values in the Middle East that our message of equality and God-given freedom is inexorable and will yet penetrate the resistance of the jihadists to find its way into the hearts and minds of the people of the Arab World."
-Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, author of It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good

"Anyone who wants to understand the real meaning of the clash of civilizations between radical Islam and the West should read this book."
-Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, author of In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security

"Now They Call Me Infidel is a book of great humanity, intelligence, and courage. If ever there is to be peace between Arabs and Israelis, it will have to be along the lines depicted by Nonie Darwish."
-David Pryce-Jones, senior editor, National Review

"This is a breakthrough book.... Nonie Darwish is one of the most compelling voices for moderate Islam and against extremist violence."
-John Loftus, President, the Intelligence Summit

"Nonie Darwish indicts the Middle Eastern and Islamic culture she left behind, exposing what she calls the 'rigid psychological wall' imposed by religious and political leaders, the 'giant machine of oppression' that dominates society, and the dysfunctional 'culture of arrogance, pride, and shame.' Fleeing to the United States, she found happiness - but also a growing infrastructure of radical Islam that she has bravely and effectively confronted."
-Daniel Pipes, author of Militant Islam Reaches America

"We should all be thankful to Nonie Darwish for writing this insightful book on jihad and the global war on terror. As Darwish states in this great expos, nothing will change in the Islamic world until the voices in the mosques preach love and peace."
-Paul Vallely, major general, U.S. Army (Ret.), coauthor of Endgame

"This call for peace should be read by everyone and taught in schools.... The free world owes Darwish an invaluable debt for her struggles for freedom."
-Bat Ye'Or, author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

About the Author

Nonie Darwish grew up in Cairo and Gaza, the daughter of a high-ranking Egyptian army officer. She now lectures around the country to civic organizations, universities, churches, and synagogues.

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Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
Hardcover : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1595230319
ISBN-13 : 978-1595230317
Product Dimensions : 6.28 x 0.98 x 9.26 inches
Publisher : Sentinel HC; First Edition (November 16, 2006)
Reading level : 18 and up
Language: : English

Best Sellers Rank: #886,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #219 in Women in Islam (Books)
- #456 in Egyptian History (Books)
- #826 in Historical Middle East Biographies

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JohnTruth

Having studied Islam for 30 years I rate this book the 3rd best on Islam (and the best for describing how women ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016

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Exposes and describes the DEMEANING, DEGRADING, DEGENERATE, and DEADLY consequences of Islam, Sharia, and religiously-sanctioned polygamy on women. Since women are the MOTHERS of men, Darwish describes how downtrodden Muslim women produce defective, negative men who blame everyone else for their own failures. Having studied Islam for 30 years I rate this book the 3rd best on Islam (and the best for describing how women are treated in Islam), after Ibn Warraq's WHY I AM NOT A MUSLIM and Mark A. Gabriel's ISLAM AND TERRORISM.

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Brenton Morley

A real eye-opener

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018

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I first read this book when I found it in our public library. It was very interesting and informative. The author was raised in Egypt, which was a liberal Muslim country, so she did not observe Muslim customs much. Even so, she saw the effects of Islamic law on both men and women. Women are oppressed, but men are also demeaned by their religion. The author was able to leave Egypt for America, which she dearly loves, and she feels compelled to write and speak out about the dangers of Islam. She had been given a good education, which enabled her to know how to escape the life she was born into. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

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Elwood D. Baas

Inside look at Islam and its Affect on Arab Culture

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016

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Want the inside scoop on Islam related to marriage, family, community and culture? Then read this book. Author shows the constant contradictions and frustrations of trying to follow sharia law and cultural traditions of Islam. The "evil eye" of those trying to impose the rules of Islam is always present. There is no concept of trust, forgiveness and redemption. Polygamy ruins many marriages with male-dominant-law making women to suffer most of the results. For those who resort to violence, the "religion of peace" becomes the "peace of the graveyard". Then there is the strange, contradictory sense that if Islam can take over another land or culture everything will be better . . . but changing places does not change the ideology. Those who want to learn about Islam without trying to learn about the Koran and sharia law can gain great benefit from this book.

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Dassie

Enables the American/European mind to finally understand a very different mentality.

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015

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Nonie Darwish obviously possesses a beautiful and passionate soul that truly cares about all of humanity and this shines through her writing.
This book covers a lot of ground, but one of its most valuable and unique attributes is Nonie's ability to explain the Muslim-Arab mentality to Westerners. Most Americans and Europeans do not understand this mentality - much to their own detriment.
Her personal story is gripping and absorbing, but its biggest strength is its ability to enable the reader to understand a very different mentality - and this includes both the positive and negative aspects of this mentality.
I really believe that most people will come away from this book with their eyes opened and a much clearer understanding of what is going on in many parts of the world.

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Catherine

Americans should all read this!

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2014

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I wish every citizen of the United States would read this book, but I can't even get my friends to borrow my copy and read it. It is very thought provoking and upsetting for those of us who love this country but also love to bury our heads in the sand. But it has made me listen to the current news with more understanding than I had before. If our State Department officials and all political leaders would read this, I think they would find it interesting and helpful.

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It's Quite an Education

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016

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This book is quite an education concerning Islam. The Arabic culture is very different from that of the Unites States and other countries and we would all do well to read about it and understand. Ms. Darwish is from Egypt and was raised a Muslim. I admire her for having the strength and courage to tell her fascinating story. You will probably be surprised at how much you really don't know if you have not studied Islam very much. I also recommend a companion book, A God Who Hates, by Wafa Sultan, who is from Syria.

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A voice for Truth about Israel

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

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An eye-opening book about Egyptian and Arab Muslim culture and it's threat to Western civilization. This is a must-read for anyone who has opinions about Islam and the Middle East. It also clarifies the aggression of Islam in attempting world domination.

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Informative

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2018

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Bought it used. It was very rough out side but was a interesting and informative book.

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Gary Selikow

True eye-opener

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2014

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This illuminating , penetrating, engrossing and heartfelt book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to truly understand the realities and dynamics at play concerning terrorism, the threat of Islamist radicalism to the free world , the Arab-Israel conflict and Islamic oppression of and atrocities against women and minorities.
Nonie Darwish in the first chapter of the book describes her childhood in Cairo and Gaza. Her father a top officer in Egyptian military intelligence was the man in charge of facilitating attacks of the terrorist 'fedayeen ' incursions into Israel in which many Israeli civilians were murdered. He was assassinated by Israeli intelligence in a military operation . This , Darwish , rightly puts the blame for squarely of the Egyptian tyrant Gamel Abdel Nasser, the greatest enemy of Israel and the Jewish people from 1953 to 1970, and who in his obsessive passion to destroy Israel and drive her Jewish population into the sea, thus in his mind restoring Arab honour, also caused many Egyptian deaths and suffering.

When she arrived as a child in Gaza she recalls the poverty of the areas when it was then under Egyptian control (under Israeli control from 1967 to 2005, the standard of living shot up exponentially) . The Arab powers wanted to see the lives of the 'Palestinian' Arab refugees as intolerable and pushed up against the Israeli border with no where else to go so that A) They could be used as terrorist infiltrators to attack and kill Israeli civilians and B) World pressure would be brought to bear on Israel. And thus Nasser's regime refused to relocate the 'Palestinian' Arab refugees into the vast spacious and almost empty Sinai peninsular.

In January 1956 Nasser vowed a renewed campaign of aggression against Israel and more fedayeen terror groups were trained in Gaza to infiltrate Israel and kill Israeli Jews. Israeli commandos were sent to Nonie's heavily guarded home but she only found out in the morning and slept throughout. This struck Nonie that the Israelis did not harm the women and children in the house though the Egyptian-organized terrorist fedayeen frequently murdered Israeli civilians, women and children.

In Chapter 2 Darwish describes 'Growing up in Cairo' where women were horrifically oppressed and abused, and could not enjoy any of the basic human rights women in western countries take for granted, where hatred for Jews and Christians was and the culture of jihad (holy war) inculcated in all Egyptian Muslims since birth. As she describes 'No Arab could avoid the culture of Jihad. Jihad is not some esoteric concept. In the Arab world the m,earning of jihad is clear: It is a religious holy war against infidels. , an armed struggle against anyone who is not a Muslim. It is a fight for Allah's cause to promote Islamic dominion in the world.'

The calls in the mosques as the author describes were frequently followed by fiery sermons that urged Muslims to destroy all Jews and infidels, the enemies of Allah.
And then of course there was the class system. social classes in Egypt were and are very stratified. The upper classes treat the poor in Muslim countries with arrogance, contempt, cruelty and injustice.
This is a far cry from the more egalitarian society Israel was founded on, and I believe that the fear that Israel's democratic and egalitarian society would inspire the Arab proletariat to want the same was a large part of the reason that the Arab effendis stirred up the masses for jihad against the Jews.
Darwish stresses that few Westerners can comprehend the degree to which hatred of Jews (Not just Zionists but Jews) permeates every aspect of Arab culture. She began to wonder 'What was wrong with allowing a few million Jews to live among us in peace?Arab land was plenty. They had only a small sliver of land, in some places only thirty kilometers wide. But the hatred and anti-Semitism was frighteningly prevalent in our society'

In Chapter Four Darwish further elaborates the culture of oppression, atrocities and institutionalized rape in Muslim countries Poor Egyptian girls without fathers or brothers who decide to wear Western clothes are seen as deserving of rape and/or murder.
For this reason many young women, even though secular choose to cover their heads for their own safety and survival. And yet leftwing Western feminists very seldom speak out against gender oppression in Muslim countries, because this would not fit in with their perfidious political agenda.

A women who chooses her own sexual partners is often punished by death in these societies . And Darwish also refers to the system of slavery in Sudan by the Muslim Arabs of the North against the Christians and Animists of the South.

Darwish boldly and valiantly points out against the hypocritical and wicked Islamist and neo-leftist propaganda that 'Judeo-Christian culture has greatly contributed to humanity and the order of things in Western civilization by it's insistence on the value of one man and one women joined in holy matrimony'

Chapter Five 'The Invisible Wall' describes the culture of indoctrination and bottomless hate against the Free West and particularly against Jews and Israel, which can only mirror that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s. The author tells us how 'The public was continually told that the Jews and Israel wanted to conquer the Arab world. Golda Meir was portrayed in Egyptian cartoons as an ugly, bloodsucking woman with dangling breasts, messy hair and blood dripping from her mouth . All Jews were supposed to look like that - holding bloody daggers after killing little Arab babies' How sad one can only reflect it is how the leftist media in the West and elsewhere around the world have copied this anti-Israel demonology.

To survive one had to agree with this hatred or at least pretend to. A similar culture which exists across the Muslim world is now also reproducing in universities, leftwing media and NGO circles and regimes like South Africa and Venezuela.

In the sixth chapter where she describes life in America she both describes a freer more humane society (and for all the faults of American and Western society no decent person can deny that is far morally superior and more humane than any Islamic society) as well as Islamic radicalization in American mosques and universes
She makes the point that most Muslims all over the world today are part of a 'political Islam' rather than any introspection of personal relationship with their Creator. And that often the nonpartisan Muslims are just as extreme , biased, violent and supportive of terror as the religious extremists.

Those who brainwash children in Muslim countries are no doing the same in Western countries they have immigrated to and aim to invade and claim Western societies that have received them as their own. The West must be conquered for Islam.
Furthermore Darwish observes how their is a venomous jealousy of Jewish achievement in the Muslim world Instead of trying to emulate and learn from those achievements Muslims want to murder them , demonize and destroy them, Perhaps because they remind them of the inadequacies and mass poverty of Arab societies despise these Arab nations halving rich oil reserves.

On her visit to Egypt after 20 years of living in America Darwishpointsout that she saw more radicalism and religious repression than ever before. the 'religion of peace' in Egypt are suppressing ands genocide the Copts.
Darwish outlines her noble initiative of Arabs for Israel which aims to spread understanding and tolerance and the acceptance of the right of the tiny state of Israel to exist limn peace and security in the Middle East neighborhood. Darwish would like to tell the Palestinians and the Arab world that having a neighbor of a different religion and culture need not be a reason for hatred , violence, feminization and genocidal intentions. that it can be a blessing. and an asset.

Sadly Darwish in her campaign for genuine peace, tolerance and human rights has been prosecuted and attempts made to silence her not only by Islamist extremists but also by the radical left who today care nothing for human rights, truth or real justice but only their wicked jihad to destroy Israel and the free world. They therefore try to silence those who want peace in the middle East rather than genocide of Israel, and who want real rights for women and minorities
These wicked nihilistic far left radicals control universities , the media and NGOS and even some governments and have decided it suits tier nefarious purposes to back uncritically the IslamoNazis. They refer to all who speak up against the Islamist oppression and terror as ''racist's , 'Islamophobes' and 'bigots. But it is people like Nonie Darwish, Brigitte Gabriel, Wafa Sultan, Bat Yeor, Robert Spencer, Melanie Philips, Julie Burchill, Geert Wilder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Pat Condell, Daniel Pipes, Guilio Meotti, Caroline Glick, Nadia Matar, Pilar Rahola and the late Oriana Fallaci who are the brave forces of truth and humanity who refuse to be politically correct and cowardly and who refuse to allow evil and inhumanity to prevail.

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MacLink

Excellent.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2019

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A book written with love which is what is important. This is an important testimony and opinion from someone who has lived a Muslim life in Egypt. She therefore writes from a first hand experience about Islam and the indelible connection with Jihad. The only way to counter a religious ideology is with a countering ideology. Not force. Even if Jihad is about the spread of Islam through force, if necessary.

N. J. Suarez Fernandez

An absolute read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2017

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After reading an article written by this brave and intelligent lady I had to buy her book, I have not been disappointed.
Every non-Muslim should read this book... and indeed Muslims should read it if they have the openness and courage to do so.
Our Governments would do well to talk to her too, as they would understand and learn more about Islamic radicalism and Jihad.

John Ruffle

Eye-Opener to the Real World

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2014

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This is a wonderful book that has been passed around the staff room several times and has helped inform the thinking of some of my colleagues! While Darwish buys into the falsity of the "American Dream" a little too much perhaps for some non-Americans, once you've read the book, you'll begin to see WHY: most people have no idea how harsh, repressive and cruel some other parts of the world are. This book may make you angry; you may cry. But only the hardest heart could stay un-moved by this account.

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Marcella Carmen

An eye-opening insight into aspects of Islam ignored by western politicians

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2013

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I recommend this book as a beginner's guide to the religious and cultural background to modern day Islam. It is written by an ex-Muslim, now a Christian. It was from this lady that I learned things of Islamic culture and religious views that should become everyday knowledge in the western world.

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