1. Nonie Darwish is an Egyptian-American author, writer, founder of the Arabs for Israel movement, and director of Former Muslims United.
13 Facts About Nonie Darwish
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In July 1956 when Nonie was six years old, her father was killed by a mail bomb in an operation by the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Nonie Darwish is an ex-Muslim and has headed a fringe group called "Former Muslims United", backed by anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative.
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Nonie Darwish is a strong supporter of Israel, and has founded the group Arabs for Israel.
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Nonie Darwish says, "Just because I am pro- Israel does not mean I am anti- Arab, its just that my culture is in desperate need for reformation which must come from within".
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Nonie Darwish believes Islam is an authoritarian ideology that is attempting to impose on the world the norms of seventh-century culture of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Nonie Darwish writes that Islam is a "sinister force" that must be resisted and contained.
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Nonie Darwish claims the Qur'an is a text that is "violent, incendiary, and disrespectful" and says that brutalization of women, the persecution of homosexuals, honor killings, the beheading of apostates and the stoning of adulterers come directly out of Islamic texts.
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Nonie Darwish has called for non-Muslim Americans to be wary of interfaith marriages particularly those where Muslims marry Jewish or Christian women.
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Nonie Darwish has participated in several conferences and rallies organized by Stop Islamization of America and Stop Islamization of Nations, and has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.
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Critics have accused Nonie Darwish of operating as part of a "shariah scare industry".
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In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center described Nonie Darwish as being part of a group of "rabid Islamophobes who promote an array of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and propaganda".
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Nonie Darwish denies that she is the author of an essay entitled "Joys of Muslim Women" attributed to her in a chain email which began to circulate on the internet in 2009.