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Article: Author to address radical Islam: Many thought Darwish should become a jihadist.
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- Herald & Review (Decatur, IL)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2007
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Byline: Huey Freeman
Apr. 24--DECATUR -- When Nonie Darwish was a young girl, she was invited to be a jihadist to join the holy war against Israel.
Her father was head of Egyptian military intelligence and a terrorist group that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. When he was assassinated in 1956, government officials asked Darwish and her siblings which one would avenge her father by killing Jews.
Darwish later questioned the anti-Semitic messages that had been drummed into her in the public schools in Gaza. She wondered why her family preferred to take her critically ill brother to a Jewish doctor, if all Jews were subhuman.
"The ...