Nonie Darwish > Quotes

“The bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes to the average Arab citizen. Thus, Arab media never fail to be less than outrageous. They blamed the defeat on none other than Israel, as though self-defense and self-preservation was not a right to be exercised by the Jewish enemy.”
― Nonie Darwish

“In the West "yes" is "yes" and "no" is "no." But when Arabs hear the word "no" from an American they often take it as an insult. That is because Arabs don't say the word "no" directly. Very often they say "in Shaalah" when they mean "no." In dealing with Westerners, an Arab may say "yes' when they really don't mean it, and that gets them in a lot of trouble with Westerners.”
― Nonie Darwish

“The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed they were doing God's work. They were trained to view life on earth as of no value and that no act, no matter how barbaric, was off-limits if in pursuit of jihadd.”
― Nonie Darwish

“Wives clearly are not to be trusted. A husband must even go so far as to withhold or hide his affection for his wife, because that gives her too much “power.” What a sad thing that is, to deprive a woman you love of even the knowledge that you love her.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“What the West views as virtue, Islam views as an opportunity. While the West values assimilation, Islam values segregation. While the West values freedom of speech, Islam prohibits asking questions. While the West advocates pacifism, Islam calls for war. While the West respects all religions, Islam advocates killing or subjugating those who believe in other religions.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“By tolerating intolerance, the West is not doing Muslims or Islam a favor. Tolerance of Islamo-Fascism is not a sign of compassion; it is gross negligence”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Islam does not tell the Muslim man he is guaranteed heaven if he makes the world a peaceful place, but it does guarantee him heaven if he blows up the marketplaces and houses of worship of non-Muslims, if he sacrifices his life to kill the perceived enemies of Islam.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“These are the same Muslim governments who call for tolerance of Muslims and have never apologized for 9/11 or taken any responsibility for Muslim worldwide terrorism.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Westerners must ignore the threats in Muslim scriptures, otherwise they are bigoted and Islamophobic.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“With Islam currently under the microscope, Muslims have become extremely defensive, but instead of getting into an honest dialogue, many will shut you up, call you names, or accuse you of Islamophobia”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“What’s important to notice here is that when criticizing the sexual attitudes and practices in the West, it is not the sex act per se that Muslims are upset about, but the notion of giving freedom to women to have or not have sex. What bothers them is freedom of choice in the West for women.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Many Muslims claim that the West simply misunderstands Muslim scriptures and that Islam is a religion of peace.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“It is true that there are no Sharia laws that openly give men the right to kill their women to protect their family honor.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Only on Arab TV can you find an actual Arab researcher defying scientific axioms by saying such outrageous things as “the earth is flat and much larger than the sun (which is also flat).” That debate actually took place in October 2007 on Al-Fayhaa Arab TV.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Muslim women are in an impossible situation, and denial has become the only comfort to many of them. Who can blame them? But”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Western feminists have achieved their rights by being anti-establishment; however, this strand of Muslim feminism is actually in support and in harmony with the Muslim establishment that enslaves them.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“But rich or poor, educated or not, wearing Western clothes or covered up, they all live, to one degree or another, under the sword of Sharia.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Hadith 9:57 states: Mohammed said, “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Islam counts on the natural humanity and basic decency of unsuspecting people and nations to accommodate their immigrant minority Muslim population and bend to their demands.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are definitely positive aspects to British and French colonialism that are rarely mentioned. The British never imposed their religion and culture under penalty of death, and bottom line, their positives were often greater than their negatives. But ironically, Arabs until today blame their victimization on colonial powers and are unwilling to consider whether Islam and Sharia have anything to do with”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are 35,213 Qur’an verses, hadiths, Sharia laws, and various Muslim scriptures commanding and encouraging killing, violence, war, annihilation, corporal punishment, hatred, boycott, humiliation, and subjugation aimed mainly against non-Muslims.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are definitely positive aspects to British and French colonialism that are rarely mentioned. The British never imposed their religion and culture under penalty of death, and bottom line, their positives were often greater than their negatives. But ironically, Arabs until today blame their victimization on colonial powers and are unwilling to”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Acknowledging compassion to non-Muslim oppressed minorities is grounds for apostasy. A Muslim must stay hardened and unyielding. Only Muslims are the victims.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“They hate the infidels and want to kill them, but love the infidels’ technology, their dollars, their air conditioners, their cars, and their many gadgets.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Islam has annihilated every culture it has invaded or immigrated into.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“No culture is perfect and every culture has its challenges, but to claim that all are morally equal is a mistake.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“This is Allah’s law, they told me, and we must obey it. Those who didn’t obey were considered apostates who should be killed.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Every time I see the list of countries winning Nobel Prizes, I wonder, Where are the Muslims? What are they dreaming about? What are they aspiring to?”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Muslims have access to build mosques in the West, yet give us no access to build churches or synagogues in the Muslim world. They finance Muslim studies and Middle East studies departments in American universities but do not allow Christian or Judaism Studies departments in any Muslim country. They freely preach Islam around the world but kidnap and kill Christian preachers on their own soil. Christian missionary work is illegal in most Muslim countries.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“But in Islam, the word chosen does not carry the same meaning of the Bible. The Jews regard being chosen as a heavy responsibility to follow God’s commandments and to repair the world. In Islam it simply means superiority.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law