Nonie Darwish - Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values

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WHOLLY DIFFERENT

So many people in the U.S. and the West in general assume that all religions teach essentially the same thing, and that their message is one of benevolence, charity, and magnanimity. While that may be true for many religions, it is certainly not true of Islam, especially in regard to women, unbelievers, and other despised groups. In this eye-opening book, Nonie Darwish lays bare the shocking details of just how sharply Christian morality and Islamic morality differ. Politicians and policymakers in favor of mass Muslim immigration, and clerics who think that dialogue with Muslim leaders will fix everything, should study this book carefully and heed its lessons.

ROBERT SPENCER, director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guideto Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad

Every serious student of truth needs this excellent book. Nonie Darwishs deep understanding of the Islam of her upbringing contrasts sharply with the truths she has learned through embracing Christianity. As a former Muslim convert to Christianity, she is in a unique position to present the reader with the crucial background information on the struggle gripping the modern world. Every Christian will benefit immensely from the profound information Nonie Darwish has gathered through firsthand experience and painstaking research. And open-minded non-Christians will learn valuable facts about both Christianity and Islam. Wholly Different is a book that people of all faiths should read.

JAMES TOLLE, pastor of El Camino Metro Church, the largest Hispanic church in Los Angeles

Wholly Different is a moving and fascinating experience of Darwishs discovery of Biblical values. This precious account of a courageous woman confronting the trauma of discovering and revising her past lifes dilemmas in total conflict with Western values describes her final liberation from the past into values of truth and love. A most enlightening and well-analyzed book that should be widely read.

BAT YEOR, author of Eurabia, The Dhimmi, and Islam and Dhimmitude

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To my pastor and his wife,

Jim and Alice Tolle

CONTENTS

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R ecently there has been a push to replace the term Judeo-Christian with the term Abrahamicso as to include Islam in the roll of religions that are the source of our common values. Westerners are eager to show good will toward Muslims, ready to make a real effort to settle the cultural differences that have divided people from different religious backgrounds. Thus it seems to make sense to unite Islam with Christianity and Judaism as an Abrahamic faith, to tout it as preaching more or less the same principles and values. Some interfaith groups have even started referring to certain confluence between Christianity and Islam as Chrislam.

In fact, attempts to reconcile and unite Islam with Christianity are as old as Islam itself. But such attempts have always failed. A primary reason for that failure is that Islams moral values are diametrically opposed to Biblical moral values. Many Muslims deny this factparticularly when communicating with Westerners. In private, in mosques, and in Islamic books, Muslims see Jews and Christians as their enemies.

It is true that Islam, like the Bible, originated in the same area of the world, the Middle East, and some call Arabs and Jews cousins. But close proximity and blood relations are no guarantees to harmony or compatibility. In fact some of the deadliest and most toxic relationships could stem from within the same family. Islams position on the Bible was the original Mideast cultural clash in which Islam charged into a bloody reversal of where Middle East Biblical values were heading. At its core, Islam came to preserve and re-assert Arabian Peninsula culture.

Islams opposition to Biblical and Western values explains why, wherever Muslims go, Muslim leaders stand against assimilation. Islamic doctrine absolutely rejects the Western idea of the melting pot. Muslims are inculcated with contempt for Christians, Christian values, and the Western civilization they built.

Supporters of incorporating Islam into Western culture dont understand that co-existence as equals with other religions is prohibited under Islam. The West is only now, after decades of trying to assimilate millions of Muslim refugees and immigrants, discovering the impossibility of incorporating Islam.

Most people are unaware of the context in which Islam was born. Islam was created six hundred years after Christianity not to affirm the Bible, but to discredit it; not to co-exist with the people of the book,Jews and Christiansbut to replace them.

Despite Islams doctrine of non-assimilation, a large number of Muslim immigrants in the West have chosen to assimilate. That was my choice, as a Muslim immigrant to the United States. But many Muslim immigrants who are more faithful to the teachings of Islam refuse to assimilate and work hard against the assimilation of other Muslims. Muslim leaders frequently speak out against assimilation, as when Londons Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan said in a speech when visiting the U.S. that immigrants shouldnt have to assimilate into American culture. The mayor did not say why assimilation was a bad idea.

Consider that it takes more effort on the part of an individual not to assimilate than to assimilate to the society he or she lives in. To intentionally refuse assimilation is not the norm; it requires a great effort and runs against the grain of human nature, which tends to acclimate and adapt to new environments. This is how human beings are wired, and this is what I chose to do when I moved to the U.S. I assimilated because it came naturally.

The refusal to assimilate to the West by a religion or ideology should be a clear red flag. Particularly if that refusal is motivated by hostility and contempt for Western values.