Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror
by Nonie Darwish
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Author: Nonie DarwishEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2006-11-16
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Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Sentinel HC
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Book Review: A Celtic view
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book for the empathic, rational and experiential thinker who sees life as it really is and not, as the ill-informed 'extremism to extremism' editorial review conveys (amazon.com) - thinks it is. A simple grasp of facts can do the business of rectifying the tiresome distortions endemic of the political mentality behind the above mentioned 'review.' Suffice to note the now routine absurd moral equivalence made by today's left between murderous terrorism on the one hand and - on this occasion - a modestly dressed, self-effacing lady armed only with pen and paper on the other. The 'reviewer' might have had at least the decency to credit Nonie Darwish's integrity if not her empirically formed experience.
I'm not an American but a Scot, and like many other Scots plus Americans, Canadians, English, Welsh, Irish, French, Spanish, Japanese, South Africans, Australians,Egyptians,Indians,Iraquis,Israelis, Zimbabwians, Koreans, and Itallians etc etc etc, I'm concerned about the radical Islamic threat to the world. It's intentions are as plain as the midnight sun to anybody mercilessly ravaged by common sense. Before moving to the safety of the West - the irksome and threatening pathology of the left notwithstanding - Nonie Darwish had scaled a wall thirty years high. On her way up she was obliged to negotiate the sheer faces of government and religious imputed hatred towards a rightfully restored Israel, a default hostility also extended to the West. Her innate instincts were her footholds secured by a steely resolve to resist and reject this bitter cup with its poisonous dregs that not only claimed reason, but also the life of Nonie's beloved father - and thousands of her people too. It is a tragedy that her empiricism should be brought into question by an intellectually unhinged post-modernist pathology. But then again, what's new behind this Chardonnay soaked deconstructionist psyche? It is this reasonless school of thought's morally liberalising foreign policy that the present extremism abhors and seeks to destroy. Had Nonie been a denim clad, cropped haired, gun totting Che type of extremist bent on imposing an alien ideology on society, that would have been fine, but she is not: she towers above such vulgarity. As with that other pen equipped 'extremist', Solzhenitsyn and his gaol experience under socialist oppression, Nonie is a virtuous individual with her feet firmly anchored to the ground of social and political reality. In response to the atrocity of 9/11 she took the decision to go public. For our good, she removed her finger from the hole in the wall that she had scaled in order to give us a glimpse of what the West faces if it continued(s) in its slumbers. Forget the sentimentally driven, experientially detached drivel of Chomsky et all - his ilk and their gullible sycophants despise the hand that feeds and protects them - Nonie's thematically focussed warning should be standard fayre for any decent college and public bookshelf. Its salient points should be par for everyday text, radio and television dissemination. Without her voice and also that of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others sounding the same warning bell, we are simply mushrooms shoved under the bed fed only by the bias dung of media outlets like CNN, the BBC, and their elitist lackeys. Nonie Darwish's account comes from the heart as well as mind. It is well structured, balanced, thematically progressive yet sporadically interspersed with rays of sunshine that ensure her recollections do not descend into self-indulgence darkness as is the danger with biographical genre.
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