What The West Must Know About Islamic Law
The Terrifying Threat That Cannot Be Ignored
(Nashville, Tenn.) Nonie Darwish was a virtual slave to Islamic law for the first thirty years of her life. Raised as a Muslim in the Gaza strip, she never questioned or challenged radical Islamic law – she never dared. “This is Allah’s Law,” she was told, and she knew what awaited those who questioned it.
In her latest book, Cruel and Usual Punishment (Thomas Nelson) Darwish continues her personal mission to warn the West, exposing efforts to force and enforce Sharia law on unsuspecting nations around the globe.
What is Sharia? “Its laws are based on the Qur’an and hadiths (reports of Muhammad’s words and actions outside of the Qur’an) as well as centuries of debate and interpretation,” says Darwish. “Sharia subscribes to punishments such as stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs – cruel and unusual by any human standards.”
The threat is here now. Throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, young Muslim women are targeted for violence, often by their own relatives. So-called “honor killings,” whereby a Muslim male family member, typically the father, murders his daughter in order to defend the family’s honor, is a growing problem.
Cruel and Usual Punishment details how many Muslim’s sacrifice their humanity, their rights, and even their lives in the service of archaic and brutal laws handed down from their prophet centuries ago. No one can afford to be ignorant. “It is very important that we separate the law of Islam from the religion of Islam,” writes Darwish. A religion doesn’t discriminate and torture and violate your rights.”
Nonie Darwish is an author and lecturer and a former journalist, interpreter, and editor in the Middle East News Agency. She holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the American University in Cairo. She founded www.ArabsForIsrael.com to promote understanding and peace between Israel and the Arab world. Nonie was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt and the Gaza strip. Her father headed the Egyptian military intelligence in Gaza and the Sinai in the 50’s when Gaza was under Egyptian control. He was assassinated in 1956 when Nonie was 8 years old.
She has been speaking extensively on college campuses across the US and Canada and lectured internationally in several European countries, Israel and South Africa. She spoke before members of the British House of Lords and appeared on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NPR, Al Arabiya TV, and other major media outlets. She is married and the mother of 3.
Nonie Darwish is available for interviews.
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