E-mail in from David Bethune on my post on Nonie Darwish:

Candace, thanks so much for drawing attention to the problems presently being confronted by Nonie Darwish. I have read her excellent books, wherein she writes eloquently about her experiences growing up in Egypt. As I know from my travels to that land, her father is a well-known Egyptian patriot revered by his countrymen.
Specifically, I was in Egypt for three months on a Fulbright scholarship. Egypt has many, many problems, especially its poverty and, related, a centralized incompetent and oppressive government grounded in the socialist legacy of former President Nasser. Nonie is an extraordinarily brave and brilliant woman. She is most of all extremely courageous and willing to look violence and death right in its ugly face.
It is important to draw attention to Nonie’s problems with her Islamist enemies. They are intent on making her life miserable, but she is constituted such that she will never relent in the fact of such intimidation.