Now They Call Me Infidel

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror is a best-selling[1][2] book authored by Egyptian-American human rights activist Nonie Darwish.[3][4] First published by Sentinel in 2006,[5] the book discusses —among other topics—Darwish's change in attitude toward Jews and Israelis,[6] Islamic extremism in the United States[7] and Darwish's trip to Israel.[8] The book has made Dawrish "one of the heroines of the Conservative Right."[1]

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror
First edition
AuthorNonie Darwish
LanguageEnglish
SubjectIslam
PublisherSentinel
Publication date
2006
Pages272 pages
ISBN978-1-59523-031-7
OCLC883313534

In a review for the Hoover Institution, author Aaron Mannes says that Now They Call Me Infidel provides support for the claim that "improving the status of women is essential to reform in the Muslim world."[9] In a review for the politically conservative outlet Human Events, Larry Kelley says the "book is a blistering indictment of a misogynistic polygamous world of the supposedly moderate Egyptian society."[5] Jim Hulston, writing in the pro Palestinian outlet Electronic Intifada, was generally critical of the book, saying, "as a whole, the book is tedious, predictable, and badly edited -- born to be bought, scanned and displayed, not actually read."[10]

References
  1. Langton, James (13 May 2007). "Life as an infidel". The Observer.
  2. "Islam and the future". News Weekly.
  3. Gilbert, Lela (2007-10-23). "An 'infidel' in Israel". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
  4. "We Don't Like to Hear That Here; Nonie Darwish is censored here and abroad". National Review. 2006-11-20. Archived from the original on 2009-03-19.
  5. Kelley, Larry (2007-06-04). "An 'Infidel' Reveals Islam's Internal Fight". Human Events.
  6. Webster, Dan (April 5, 2008). "A PLEA FOR ARAB-ISRAELI COEXISTENCE: Activist says now is the time for an end to Mideast strife". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  7. Perry, Marvin; Negrin, Howard E. (2008). The Theory and Practice of Islamic Terrorism: An Anthology. Macmillan Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-230-60864-1.
  8. Ma'oz, Moshe (2009). Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel: The Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation. Sussex Academic Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-84519-322-5.
  9. Mannes, Aaron (October 1, 2007). "Infidel Tales". Hoover Institution .
  10. Holstun, Jim (26 June 2008). "Nonie Darwish and the al-Bureij massacre". Electronic Intifada.
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