Cruel and Usual Punishment Quotes

“Muslims need to hear that the human right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is above the right of any religion that wants to take it away. Muslims need to hear the word no.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. —Author Unknown”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Muslims have access to build mosques in the West, yet give us no access to build churches or synagogues in the Muslim world. They finance Muslim studies and Middle East studies departments in American universities but do not allow Christian or Judaism Studies departments in any Muslim country. They freely preach Islam around the world but kidnap and kill Christian preachers on their own soil. Christian missionary work is illegal in most Muslim countries.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Such clerics have found laws to protect them under Western democracies, but instead of appreciating such democratic laws, they reject them and turn around and demand the only thing they know—Sharia law.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“What the West views as virtue, Islam views as an opportunity. While the West values assimilation, Islam values segregation. While the West values freedom of speech, Islam prohibits asking questions. While the West advocates pacifism, Islam calls for war. While the West respects all religions, Islam advocates killing or subjugating those who believe in other religions.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“By tolerating intolerance, the West is not doing Muslims or Islam a favor. Tolerance of Islamo-Fascism is not a sign of compassion; it is gross negligence”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“No culture is perfect and every culture has its challenges, but to claim that all are morally equal is a mistake.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“However, their lack of concern does not reflect the obvious anxiety of U.S. citizens over Islam. Those who voice concerns are too often accused of being Islamophobes”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Hadith 9:57 states: Mohammed said, “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“How can we expect Muslims to assimilate in America when their religion tells them that Jews are monkeys and Christians are pigs who both should be killed?”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Non-Muslims cannot simply count on an eventual reformation of Islam because it might never happen. The starry-eyed West talks more about the reformation of Islam than Muslims themselves do.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Americans in general have difficulty in understanding these acts as “hate crimes,” because the notion of a religion telling you to kill others is so foreign to them.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Many Muslims claim that the West simply misunderstands Muslim scriptures and that Islam is a religion of peace.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are 35,213 Qur’an verses, hadiths, Sharia laws, and various Muslim scriptures commanding and encouraging killing, violence, war, annihilation, corporal punishment, hatred, boycott, humiliation, and subjugation aimed mainly against non-Muslims.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Acknowledging compassion to non-Muslim oppressed minorities is grounds for apostasy. A Muslim must stay hardened and unyielding. Only Muslims are the victims.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“The more America or the West tries to help stabilize the region, the more it is despised. They do not want to be rescued by infidels.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“These are the same Muslim governments who call for tolerance of Muslims and have never apologized for 9/11 or taken any responsibility for Muslim worldwide terrorism.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“The part that the West does not understand is that Muslims do not apply the same logic to themselves. The demand for tolerance by Muslims is a one-way street.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are definitely positive aspects to British and French colonialism that are rarely mentioned. The British never imposed their religion and culture under penalty of death, and bottom line, their positives were often greater than their negatives. But ironically, Arabs until today blame their victimization on colonial powers and are unwilling to consider whether Islam and Sharia have anything to do with it.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are definitely positive aspects to British and French colonialism that are rarely mentioned. The British never imposed their religion and culture under penalty of death, and bottom line, their positives were often greater than their negatives. But ironically, Arabs until today blame their victimization on colonial powers and are unwilling to consider whether Islam and Sharia have anything to do with”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“There are definitely positive aspects to British and French colonialism that are rarely mentioned. The British never imposed their religion and culture under penalty of death, and bottom line, their positives were often greater than their negatives. But ironically, Arabs until today blame their victimization on colonial powers and are unwilling to”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“The word love is never mentioned, not even once, in the Quran.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Islam is terrified of Christianity and Judaism and wants to mask the eyes of Muslims from ever seeing them or their holy books, and in that they have actually succeeded.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“They hate the infidels and want to kill them, but love the infidels’ technology, their dollars, their air conditioners, their cars, and their many gadgets.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Every time I see the list of countries winning Nobel Prizes, I wonder, Where are the Muslims? What are they dreaming about? What are they aspiring to?”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Only on Arab TV can you find an actual Arab researcher defying scientific axioms by saying such outrageous things as “the earth is flat and much larger than the sun (which is also flat).” That debate actually took place in October 2007 on Al-Fayhaa Arab TV.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Islam does not tell the Muslim man he is guaranteed heaven if he makes the world a peaceful place, but it does guarantee him heaven if he blows up the marketplaces and houses of worship of non-Muslims, if he sacrifices his life to kill the perceived enemies of Islam.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Wives clearly are not to be trusted. A husband must even go so far as to withhold or hide his affection for his wife, because that gives her too much “power.” What a sad thing that is, to deprive a woman you love of even the knowledge that you love her.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“Western feminists have achieved their rights by being anti-establishment; however, this strand of Muslim feminism is actually in support and in harmony with the Muslim establishment that enslaves them.”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

“With Islam currently under the microscope, Muslims have become extremely defensive, but instead of getting into an honest dialogue, many will shut you up, call you names, or accuse you of Islamophobia”
― Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law