Nonie darwish biography
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IMPACT: A writer who has frequent speaking engagements across the US, Nonie Darwish has numerous affiliations with anti-Muslim organizations, has made false claims about Islam, and has called for Islam to be “annihilated.”
Nonie Darwish, a writer and speaker, describes herself as “an American woman born Muslim in Egypt [who] warns the West of the dangers of Radical Islam and Sharia law.”
A convert to Christianity, Darwish is founder of Former Muslims United, a program of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group founded by Pamela Geller that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) considers an anti-Muslim hate group. With Geller, she has put on programs, including an event called “Islamic Apartheid Week” on some US college campuses.
Darwish is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy and has written for the David Horowitz’s Freedom Center’s Front Page Magazine. The SPLC considers both of these organizations anti-Muslim hate groups.
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Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker and founder of Arabs For Israel. She is the author of the book "Now they Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for amerika, Israel and the War on Terror." Her second book fryst vatten "Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law." Her speech topics cover human rights, with an emphasis on womenâsâ rights and minority rights in the Middle East.
Born in Egypt, Darwish is the daughter of an Egyptian Army Lieutenant General, who, when assassinated by the Israeli army in 1956, was called a âshahidâ by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, although Darwish blames âthe Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birthâ for the assassination. In 1978, she moved with her husband to the United States, and converted to Christianity there. After September 11, 2001 she has written on Islam-related topics.
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Nonie Darwish
American activist (born 1948)
Nonie Darwish (Arabic: نوني درويش; born Nahid Darwish, 1949) is an Egyptian-American author, writer, founder of the Arabs for Israel movement, and director of Former Muslims United. Darwish is an outspoken critic of Islam.[1][2] The Southern Poverty Law Center has described her as an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim activist.[3][4]
Biography
[edit]Nonie Darwish was born in 1948[5] in Cairo, Egypt.[6][1][7] Her father, Colonel Mustafa Hafez, was paternally of Turkish ancestry.[8] In the 1950s her Egyptian family moved to Gaza when her father was sent by president Gamal Abdel Nasser to serve as commander of the Egyptian Army Intelligence in Gaza, which was under supervision of Egypt. Hafez founded the fedayeen who launched raids across Israel's southern border, that between 1951 and 1956, killed many Israelis, the majority civilians.[1]