New York, NY – A Manhattan hearing on homeland security exploded yesterday after an Arab-American activist testified that she was taught as a youngster to “hate Jews” and “hate America,” enraging a Brooklyn lawmaker who gripped a Koran and grandly accused her of spreading “hate and poison.”
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“Check what’s going on — it’s not a secret,” Nonine Darwish, president of Former Muslims United, said at a heavily policed state Senate hearing on homeland security at 250 Broadway.
“You’re supposed to hate Jews, you’re supposed to hate America, you’re supposed to hate Western culture,” said Darwish, who grew up and was educated in Egypt and came to the United States in 1978.
State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) interrupted, holding up a copy of the Koran.
“This is offending this hearing by having her here,” Adams declared. “This is not our enemy . . . You’re bringing hate, hate and poison into a diverse country.”
Chairman Greg Ball (R-Putnam) instructed Adams to pipe down and suggested he was playing to the TV cameras.
“I’m glad no one is between those TV cameras and you because that’s the most dangerous place in New York City right now,” Ball said.
State Sen. Marty Golden (R-Brooklyn) tried to find middle ground.
“This, obviously, is her assessment how she was brought up in her life,” he said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with the good Muslin Americans who live in this country.”
Taught to hate???? Let her go back from wherever she comes from and take her hate with her!! We do not need hate in this country!!
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She apparently has moved beyond that or at least recognizes it amongst her coreligionists. It is obviously better to know with whom you are dealing than bury one’s head in the sand in denial. Or worse, obfuscate and confuse the issue by engaging in meaningless platitudes as mr. Adams did. Shame on him.
She was obviously a set up by those who would like Americans to believe that ALL muslims are anti-jewish and anti-American when in reality, they are probably 99 percent apathetic about religion and politics. We have our “Kahane”” arab haters and they also have their own meshgaim. Fortunately, the large percentage of yidden and arabs simply want to lead a peaceful life and pursue the day to day struggle of survival, earning a parnassah and raising a family in peace and security.
I can’t imagine that this is a surprise to anyone. She’s just saying out loud what everyone already knows.
You don’t get her point. It wasn’t clear in the article, but I’ve heard her interviewed. She now is talking AGAINST the hate she was taught as a child. She’d president of FORMER Muslims United.
Is she not the same woman I saw on TV who has been targeted for death for her anti Muslim and pro Israel views? Takes a lot of guts to speak the truth when millions of your own feel act differently. Too bad the numbers of Muslims with realistic, open minding thinking towards Israel are few, and probably less who are willing to take on their own in public.
Butterfly, were you flitting around the room during English comprehension lessons or are you just ignorant. The other emails have pointed out the obvious – the woman is on OUR side. Go back to adult ed. classes.
What the lady voiced is the crux of the matter that a peace agreement cannot be achieved. It is the same as I witnessed in Vienna by Nazi propaganda. Dehumanize your intended victim, tell lies again and again and eventuallhy some will believe them. Arab propaganda targets children and forces on them a distorted view what an Israeli and Jew is
This woman is a heroine. She is righteous among the gentiles. She has the guts to speak up for the truth and for us, even at the risk of her life, and even if she must then live under constant threat by so called “peace seekers” i.e. “tomorow’s killers”.