Host Nonie Darwish on Your Campus this Spring!
Background:
Nonie Darwish has been a major intellectual force in the dialogue about jihadism and the War on Terror, and particularly on the nature of Muslim identity. She has appeared frequently in the media and had a significant impact in campus appearances where she speaks on the plight of women in Islam and on why terror has taken hold so tenaciously in the Islamic world. Darwish’s impact will grow as a result of her important new book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
Darwish has been an integral part of the “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” campaign for the past several years, speaking on multiple campuses such as UC Berkeley, George Washington University, and Dartmouth. Each of these events have drawn crowds of hundreds of students. Her appearance at UC Berkeley for the first Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week generated substantial media attention and was covered by Al-Jazeera. Nonie’s unique perspective as someone who grew up under the oppression of Sharia law has allowed her to effectively communicate with students from the entire spectrum of ideological beliefs. The Muslim Students Associations on many campuses usually walk out en-masse or stage disruptions during the presentations of many pro-Israel and anti-Jihad speakers who appear on their campus, but because of Darwish’s background and personal evolution, they usually stay to listen to her. This makes her a unique asset in the current campus political scene, where pro-jihadists have formed an unholy alliance with radical groups to create a hostile monopoly on issues involving Israel and the War on Terror.
Cruel and Usual Punishment Campus Events:
Nonie Darwish has just brought out a new book entitled Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.” This work is an analysis of the impact of Sharia law on interpersonal relationships, women/men relationships, family, and Muslim society in the Arab World. More importantly, Darwish examines how Sharia intends to destroy the Western world from within by pursuing a “stealth jihad” that attacks legal and cultural institutions and insists on being granted a constitutional status separate but equal to that governing the rest of American society.
Darwish’s subject, Sharia, is particularly important now that a new generation of radicalized American Muslims has come of age under a regime of “diversity” and multiculturalism and is demanding its cultural “rights.” In parts of Europe, the advances of Sharia have already resulted in virtual parallel legal systems, with authority being ceded to Sharia courts to resolve some family and domestic conflicts (almost always to the disadvantage of women and women’s rights). In America, many of the students gravitating to the Muslim Students’ Association are beginning to make similar claims. But throughout the West, as Darwish shows, the first, limited demands for Sharia are intended to force a wider opening that will ultimately result in Islamic law controlling ever enlarging areas of social life. The implacable logic of Sharia, as Darwish shows, is to control whole societies, not small minorities within them.
Because Nonie Darwish functions as a lightening rod before college audiences and because her new book on Sharia exposes the “imperial” aspirations of radicalized Muslim groups on our nation’s campuses, a campus event such as a keynote speech, debate, or panel centered around Cruel and Usual Punishment has the capacity to create a dramatic dialogue on campus on the nature and ambition of radical Islam. Because of its success in putting together three Islamo Fascism Awareness Weeks over the past two years on over 100 college campuses, the Freedom Center is well equipped to organize such an event.
Contact Jeffrey@horowitzfreedomcenter.org for more information.