Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values

by Nonie Darwish

Western countries are ignorant of true Islamic values, says Nonie Darwish. Darwish is an Egyptian-American, former-Muslim human rights activist who is frustrated with mainstream America's talk of tolerance and assimilation. In Wholly Different, Darwish sets non-Muslims straight about tenets of Islam that are incompatible with free society.

For the first time, Darwish tells the whole story of her personal break with Islam, starting with the brutal physical violence and rigid class system she witnessed and culminating with the spine-tingling visit she received from President Nasser after her father, fedayeen commander Mustafa Hayez, was assassinated by Israeli Defense Forces. She lays out the "seventh-century values" of Islam that religious extremists are so intent on protecting through global warfare—values that set Islam apart from the other Abrahamic religions.

Genres: Religion, Faith, Islam, Christian, Nonfiction, Memoir, Christian Non Fiction

325 pages, Hardcover

Published February 21, 2017

Reviews

[Timothy Crockett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read. Author is an Egyptian muslin who converted to Christianity. She gives an extensive comparison between the two religions. A must read for anyone that wishes to understand Islam.

[Jerry W. KENDRICK · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book should be required reading in every American high school.

Think of this book as corrective lenses for Western politicians and secularists. Ms Darwish is uniquely qualified to accurately delineate the difference between Islam and Christianity and point out the threat to human rights which occurs with Muslim immigration. Your instincts are right - Islam IS incompatible with democracy and the universal human rights promulgated by Western civilization.

[Laila · Rating 5 out of 5]

*Will reread and recommend to others.

I found some mistakes:
pg. 68 - "Even more ominously, articles 19 and 22 of the Declaration endorse the death penalty for apostasy and blaphemy [blasphemy] ..."
pg. 199 - missing ")" on "Individual Da'wa depends on eliciting .... (and building a personal relationship[)]."
pg. 221 - "With such goals in Islam ... their followers to anger management classes, advixing [advicing] them to read..."

Another sobering and thought-provoking book from this author and I admire her courage for writing a book such as this. The world need it and I hope the author understands the service she has done for humanity by writing the truth about Islam. I would like to highlight the danger and undesirable consequences awaits any former Muslims who dare to speak out on the evilness of Islam as an ideology, a political system and a religious movement on individual, family, society, nation and humanity as a whole. I can only imagine the emotional roller-coaster the author experienced while writing this book because I can tell that the subject matter is a personal one, so bravo! As a former Muslim myself, even though, I wasn't from Egypt, the devastation of Islam explained in this book is all too familiar. It's ironic that as a Muslim or a former Muslim, one learned a lot more about the undesirable truth about Islam and it's prophet--while living in the West. Yes, because only in the West one has the relative freedom (at least for now) to seek the truth, access to materials that are forbidden if one lives in Muslim-majority countries.
Upon reflection, Allah is NOT the same God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob and Mohammad seemed to invent a god and new belief system for his own self-interest--and the author explained all this so succinctly.
Read for yourself and think about it.
Another book to read to cross-examine this author's point of view is a book from Nabeel Qureshi - No God but One: Allah or Jesus?

[Sharifa · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is a book that surely will be liked by those who tend to see the world in black and white. At times it's so manipulative.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author, Nonie Darwish, is an Egyptian-born woman who lived as a devout Muslim for her first thirty years before moving to America and converting to Christianity because of questions and doubts she had about Islam. In Wholly Different, she has exposed many little-known details about Islamic values and goals and makes direct comparisons with Christian values that are often direct opposites. She has provided a warning to western cultures and religions about Muslim intentions to infiltrate and convert or kill all non-Muslims worldwide. We already see examples of this today in European countries and even in the US by taking advantage of western laws and using them as weapons to achieve their goals. To support her arguments she quotes chapter and verse from both the Bible and the Qur’an and explains meanings that are misleading or generally misunderstood. Great read for anyone interested in or concerned about global relations between Muslims, Jews and Christians.

[Jeffrey Mast · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although I think the author went a little overboard in in making Christianity to be the cause of all good, and Islam the cause of all evil, it was helpful to see the differences between the two religions highlighted by someone who has experienced both firsthand. She was also too patriotic in my opinion. Although America has undoubtedly been blessed because of the many Judeo-Christian values that it upholds, it seemed to me that she believes the constitution to be almost on par with the Bible.

[S Stucky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good info but a bit hopeless from an outreach standpoint. I had hoped that a former Muslim turned Christan would shed some light on how to reach Muslims with the Gospel.

[Ben Denison · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the content was really good, but wasn't crazy about the writing.

Had a hard time keeping me interested.

[CM Doubleday · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required reading for all who value Christian principals

Amen to Nonie's hard read!
The more I got into this book the more compelling I found it. The truth will set us free!

[Dawn Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW, What a book!

This is the best and most complete book I have ever read to explain what in facing the world today and why we are facing it

[Kyoung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bold

Darwish holds NOTHING back. She has the right to speak. She's lived both sides. Makes clear comparisons of the differences between Islam and Christianity.