This book is so important in our understanding of how the radical terrorists operate.Not all Muslims are terrorists and most peace loving Muslims, Buddists, Jews and Christians can't get thier heads around this type of political madness.

This book is an education for everyone about the situation in the Middle East. It's a sobering picture of that area. Kudos for the author for her bravery in rejecting the Muslim party line. Her solutions for the problems there are - peace, not war - love not hate. God bless her.

I've always been very confused as to why so many Arabs hate Jews and Christians so much. If they put as much time and effort into loving their children and society as they do in spreading hate and violence, then they would be so much better off; as would we. Thank you Nonie for sharing your experience and insight. Reading this book helped me to understand so much about Arabs and their actions. I truly believe that if we spoke more about this culture in the mass media, there would be more indirect pressure put on the Arab countries to stop spreading a culture of hate. Our politically correct country seems to believe that if we don't speak about something, that it will fix itself eventually. Keep up the great work Nonnie; not just for us, but for your former country and its inhabitants.

Coming from her unique perspective as the daughter of an Egyptian martyr assinated by Israel, the Egyptian upper-middle class army officier elite during the 1950's, now an American citizen, and talking about her native culture and religion...the book demanded at least the respect of looking it over.
What did I found to my utter surprise? A gripping, profound look into middle eastern history, the Arab/Israeli conflict. A sociological look into Islamic Sharia family and social structure, and the pyschological mindset and culture of the arab world...all through the eyes of one who lived among it for thirty years. She now sees that mindset worsened and in the US of the post 9/11 world.
This book's greatest strength is the first person insight given the average American into the everyday cultural thoughts, values, reasoning, ways, and mindset she has experienced in Egypt and here in the United States through her life expriences with friends, family, and other contacts in the Islamic world .
For a person well experienced in this culture, region, and religion this book may not be enlightening and may appear easy to dismiss as sour grapes...

But...it raises and answers some of the profound questions the average American citizen has probably asked himself/herself at some point in the last seven years through the stories of her life... Why the pervasive propaganda dehumanizing Israelis and Jews worldwide? Why can't they get along? Let the cycle of revenge go? negotiate and sign a final peace deal? Why haven't orther Arab nations absorbed the Palestinians living within their boarders as citizens after generations? Why are moderate muslims in the US and away from the middle east NOT standing up and redirecting their own communities away from radicalism? Unequivocally denouncing acts of terrorism violence? Why aren't most muslims melting into American society?
The last portion reincorporates the new preface and talks about what is going on here in the United States NOW, talks about the effects the mindset and philosophy she fled in late 1970's Egypt are having today in the expatriate community around her, and the growing, concerted, and well financed recruitment and misinformation campaign that is afoot on US college campuses, and the real need for others to also speak out.
It is written for those of her native culture as a call for reform, but mainly to enlighten the average American and Western European citizen so that they can understand the mindset of those who want to assimilate us.
A book I couldn't put down from first to last page and a profound sociological insight I never expected when I picked it up on a whim. Well worth the book price and time.
Thank you, Nonie, for writing your story.

For a white, first world person, I found her testimony very personal and believable. She was there first hand, and it helped me understand a lot of mysteries in their culture that I just couldn't get. Read the whole thing in one evening, that's how it held my attention.

When she spoke at Berkeley in the fall of 2007, an Al--Jazeera representative said to Nonie Darwish: "You are the most hated woman in the Arab world."

Read this book and you will find that Nonie Darwish is also the most honest and most courageous woman in the Arab world.

This book is essential reading for any westerner who wants to understand the Middle East and the conflict between Islam and the rest of the world.

It took a great deal of courage for Ms. Darwish to come out with this book. Her candidness regarding the dysfunctional nature of Islamic marriage and the non-role of women in Islamic societies was most informative.

I'm glad America can appreciate and share her insights. It's a great tragedy that Islamic cultures utterly discount the role of women in the home and in civilization. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why they have evolved into "cults of death."

Now They Call Me Infidel is a gripping narrative of the author's journey from the upper echelons of Egyptian society to a staunch defender of the West. Like Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, the book is part autobiography and part analysis of a severely dysfunctional culture. Unlike Ayaan, Darwish is not against the Muslim religion per se, focusing mainly on the destructive aspects of polygamy. This primitive practice harms women, men, the family and ultimately the whole culture.

She further examines the nature of modern Arab society showing how the ruling classes exploit religion in order to advance their oppressive agendas. Darwish confirms the existence of the pervasive Antisemitism that Hirsi Ali observed as a child in places like Saudi-Arabia. For examples of the Anti-Jewish hatred in the mainstream Arab press, please consult Peace: The Arabian Caricature of Anti-Semitic Imagery by Arieh Stav.

On a 2001 visit to Egypt, she noticed the illiteracy, anger and unemployment amongst ordinary people. They blame all of these problems on Israel, obviously brainwashed by the Egyptian media. There is a lack of self-criticism in Arab culture - a taboo against criticizing the family, religion or their leaders. But there's no denying that the constant drumbeat of propaganda against Israel and the USA emanates from, and has totally corrupted the educated segments of Egyptian society.

Observing how many Muslim immigrants do not appreciate Western values, the author warms against radicalism on campus and in mosques funded by petrodollars. Long ago she became aware of the two-faced behavior of Islamist radicals in the West: they speak soothing words to the clueless Western mass media whilst spewing forth hatred in their sermons and the Arab media. To Darwish, the terrorists are pirates who are intent on robbing Western democracies of their soul. She dismisses the misleading portrayal of Jihad as a "personal spiritual struggle," stating bluntly that it has always meant a religious holy war against non-Muslims.

There are many beautiful moments in the book, like her account of experiencing Christian worship for the first time, and her moving description of a visit to Israel and how it altered her perception of that brave little country. And this is the most important message of the book; for Nonie, the most valuable reward of moving to the USA was religious freedom and learning to love: "I had turned from a culture of hatred to one of love." May she be blessed.

Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America by Brigitte Gabriel

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci

Light in the Shadow of Jihad: The Struggle for Truth by Ravi Zacharias

Londonistan by Melanie Phillips

Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's Too by Claire Berlinski

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer