Project Oasis

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Project Oasis

• -an initiative of Dr. Wafa Sultan and Nonie
  Darwish designed to counter Shariah and Islamism
  at home and abroad.

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Project Oasis

• Mission Statement

The goal of this project is to create a greater
understanding of the plight of Muslims living
under any form of Shariah law (Islamic Law) while
educating those in the West of its dangers and
why its increasing permeation of Western society
must be halted and reversed. This will be done
by concurrently reaching out directly to the
Muslim world to offer encouragement and a free
and open forum on the Internet (through phone-in
broadcasting) where they need not fear speaking
their minds and by educating those in the West of
the need to alleviate the oppressive human rights
conditions in Islamic countries. Evolution of
this project will lead into satellite
broadcasting and opinion pieces as well as the
formation of strategic, synergistic alliances
with like-minded organizations.
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Project Rationale

• Islam produces a mindset that, in turn, leads to
  such horrors as female genital mutilation, honor
  killings, cruel and unusual punishments for
  relatively benign criminal behavior and fatwas
  condoning the murder of heretics or apostates.
  In the Middle East, millions are trapped by its
  teachings, unable to leave and live in a state of
  submission out of fear.
• This problem is only slightly acknowledged in the
  West even as the West itself begins to accept
  forms of Shariah law in an effort to appease,
  masquerading as tolerance.
• In a two-pronged counter-attack, Wafa Sultan and
  Nonie Darwish will meet these threats head on.
  Their life experiences, their courageous struggle
  with and ultimate freedom from Islam will be
  shared with audiences in the Middle East via
  their Internet Broadcasting Channel. At the same
  time, they will embark upon a public speaking
  campaign designed to inform Western audiences of
  the nightmare that is life under Islam, a reality
  for millions in the Middle East but a dark
  warning for those in the West.
• Both women have long and successful careers
  confronting Islam as well as its radical clerics
  and Western liberal apologists. While both are
  former Muslims, they are ardent supporters of
  Israel having both witnessed the truth of the
  Middle East first hand.

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Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish is the author of Cruel and Usual
Punishment, a sociological analysis of Sharias
impact on women/men, family, society and
globally. She also authored Now They Call Me
Infidel, 2006. Her latest book The Devil We
Dont Know will come out January of 2012. Nonie
holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and
Anthropology and was a journalist at the Middle
East News Agency. She founded www.ArabsForIsrael.c
om, in 1994, to promote understanding, peace and
support for Israel. She also co-founded, in 2009,
www.FormerMuslimsUnited.org which stands for
freedom of religion and civil rights of former
Muslims.

• Nonie was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo
  Egypt and Gaza and lived under Islamic Law,
  Sharia. Her father headed the Egyptian military
  intelligence in Gaza in the 50s and headed the
  Fedayeen operations against Israel under the
  leadership of President Nasser of Egypt. He was
  killed by Israel in Gaza in 1956. Having lived in
  the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict and having
  lost her father in the jihad against Israel.
• In a speech announcing the nationalization of the
  Suez Canal, Nasser vowed that all of Egypt would
  take revenge for Hafezs death. Darwish and her
  siblings were asked by Nasser and top government
  officials Which one of you will avenge your
  fathers death by killing Jews? Darwish later in
  life realized that it is the culture of jihad and
  martyrdom that is responsible for her fathers
  death and the death of thousands on both sides of
  the conflict.
• Nonie speaks about the lack of human rights and
  womens rights under Islamic law, the Arab
  Israeli conflict, terrorism, radical Islam and
  its agenda.
• Nonie lectures extensively on college campuses
  and internationally. She was published in the
  Guardian and Wall Street Journal and appeared on
  CNN, Fox, MSNBC, C-SPAN, BBC and Al Arabiya. She
  spoke before the European Parliament, members of
  the British House of Lords and at Oxford
  University. She was featured in the documentary
  film Obsession. She often lectures via Skype to
  an Oxford student group. She received several
  awards, and was recently nominated for the Civil
  Courage Prize of The Train Foundation in New
  York.

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Dr. Wafa Sultan
Dr. Wafa Sultan is a former Muslim, a Syrian
human rights activist and a practicing
psychiatrist, living in United States for over 20
years.  In 2006, she was named TIME magazine's
100 most influential people in the world .
'Whose power, talent or moral example is
transforming the world". Wafa Sultan first came
to prominence after appearing in an interview on
Al-Jazeera's program,

• 'The Opposite Direction'. She argued with host
  Faisal al-Qassem and with Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouli
  about Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of
  Civilizations theory. She claimed, "The clash we
  are witnessing around the world is a clash
  between a mentality that belongs to the middle
  ages, and another that belongs to the 21st
  century..it is a clash between freedom and
  oppression.
• Dr. Wafa Sultan - Clash of Civilizations (Arabic
  dialog with English sub-titles)The video of her
  appearance has been viewed at least 20 million
  times. Since then, Dr. Sultan reaches the Arab
  world through regular articles and blogs and
  receives 400-600 responses daily, from women, gay
  men, professionals, all telling her to please
  never stop speaking for them, as their voices are
  not heard. She has addressed the DEPARTMENT OF
  HOMELAND SECURITY and has appeared on O'Reilly,
  Fox News, CNN, Voice of America, interviewed for
  The New York Times, Jerusalem Times, Ha'Aretz,
  Readers Digest spoken at Capital Hill, Received
  awards from the US Congress, Secular Moslem
  Conference, Middle East Forum, Presented papers
  at the Washington Institute, American Enterprise
  Institute, Hudson Institute. At Rupert
  Murdoch's invitation, she joined a panel of
  speakers, with Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Shimon
  Peres, Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenneger and Jose
  Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Prime Minister of
  Spain. In 2010, Wafa was called upon to testify
  as an expert witness for Dutch Parliamentarian,
  Geert Wilders, in his freedom of speech trial.
  He was acquitted, June 2011.Her recently
  released book "The God Who Hates" has been very
  well received and is in its second printing.

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Achievements

• Since 2005, the speakers have
• Published over 1000 articles, in English and
  Arabic
• Made over 100 appearances on college campuses
• Appeared over 40 times in international venues
• Participated in over 50 television interviews,
  in English and Arabic
• Made several hundred radio appearances
• Been interviewed over 50 times by print media
  reporters
• Conducted over 70 Internet media interviews
  (individual blogs or webcasts)
• The speakers also serve as personal communication
  references for Masters and Doctoral theses from
  time to time. As internationally recognized
  experts on Islam, they can be called as expert
  witnesses as well.
• The speakers websites have elicited thousands of
  reader comments as well as email communications.

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Nonie and Wafa in Action

• Nonie
• Brown University Press Release, 2007
• Nonie Speaks at UC Berkeley, October 2007
• HuffPo, Article on Gaza, 2008
• IFPS report , 2009
• Cancelled at Columbia, 2009
• Testimony at NY State Senate Hearings on
  Terrorism

• Wafa
• Wafa on Islamic Violence--over 1 million viewers
• The 2006 TIME 100
• Wafa on Al-Jazeera, 2006
• (Arabic with English sub-titles)
• Wafa in Dutch TV Interview about her expert
  testimony in the Trial of Geert Wilders, 2010
• Bill O'Reilly Wafa Sultan discuss Gaddafi's
  Thugs Islam's Treatment of Women, 2011

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Work Plan

• Lecture Series
• 2 speakers to make 12 appearances per year each
  and subject to funding availability, an
  international appearance.
• Venues to include universities and groups
  representative of the complete socio-political
  spectrum as well as homeland security
  organizations.
• Internet Broadcast Channel
• Establishment of a live, phone-in Internet
  Broadcasting channel for viewers in the Middle
  East.

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• Project Oasis
• Dr. Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish both have
  lengthy track records speaking to diverse
  audiences about their lives and experiences,
  providing frank and disturbing insights into the
  all too often overlooked world of women living
  under Islam as well as the negative effects that
  shariah has on all people. While they address
  the same issues, they do so from somewhat
  different viewpoints, based upon their different
  formative experiences and cultural backgrounds.
• They agree though, that Muslims and Muslim women
  in particular, are living under oppressive yokes
  and it is their goal to assist and encourage
  those individuals who seek to throw off that
  yoke. The Internet Broadcasting Channel will
  allow them to directly access those audiences
  that read their websites and follow their
  writings, allowing for direct two-way
  communication with the phone-in function of the
  broadcast. Most of the viewers will never have
  had the opportunity to express themselves in a
  public forum, on these issues. Both have
  achieved a large following on their websites and
  it is expected that the broadcast channel will
  elicit an even greater audience.
• Wafa and Nonie deal with sensitive topics and
  they do so boldly and without fear, secure in the
  rightness of their mission. However, they have
  attracted the attention of those who would
  silence them with violence or threats. For this
  reason, their personal security is a factor in
  this project.

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• Lecture Series
• A lecture series consisting of 24 engagements
  for the year, is planned. Some hosts will cover
  expenses and provide for a speaking fee, however,
  many will not. This latter group includes
  universities, who may be less able to cover these
  costs simply for budgetary reasons as well as
  groups or social agencies whose philosophy is
  based on the liberal side of the political
  spectrum. These are groups who may possess an
  indifferent or even hostile mindset.  Those who
  apologize for or even passively accept the worst
  aspects of Islam, in America and abroad, are
  those whose outlooks must be challenged and
  hopefully changed if progress is to be made.
• Wafa and Nonie are not afraid to wade into
  unfriendly waters, because they know that it is
  there where their message can have a real and
  measurable effect.
• Internet Broadcast Channel
• Project Oasis plans to have Wafa and Nonie host
  the Internet Broadcasting from their homes or
  alternative locations. This is the most cost
  effective and time efficient way, to produce the
  broadcast. Initially, a weekly 2 hour broadcast
  is planned . Approximately 8 hours of research
  time is anticipated for each of these weekly
  shows. This time will include scouring Arabic
  websites as well as developing and querying
  sources on the ground in the Middle East. These
  sources will also be able to contribute periodic
  reports from their areas of interest.
• The broadcasts, with caller participation, will
  be recorded for later distribution as podcasts or
  for direct download from the Internet. The
  guests will often be those who oppose the ideals
  that Nonie and Wafa stand for (e.g. Muslim
  clerics and apologists) while other guests will
  include leading thinkers, analysts and brave
  citizens living under sharia.

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Lecture Series Cost
Southern California Regional Series (12 lectures)
Item Unit Cost Total
Speaker Honorarium 3,500.00
Ground Transport 100.00
Armed Security 400.00
Webmaster 50.00
TOTAL 4,050.00 48,600.00
National Series (12 lectures)
Item Unit Cost Total
Speaker Honorarium 3,500.00
Ground Transport 100.00
Armed Security 400.00
Air Fares 400.00
Hotels 300.00
Meals 100.00
Webmaster 50.00
TOTAL 4,850.00 58,200.00
In kind services Wafa Sultan and Nonie
Darwish traditionally receive 5,000.00 per talk
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Internet Broadcast Channel Cost
Internet Broadcast Series 50 x 2-hour, weekly
broadcasts
Item Unit Cost Total
Honorarium 3,500.00
Researcher 200.00
Webmaster 300.00
On Location Reporters 100.00
Translation 200.00
TOTAL 4,300.00 215,000.00
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Capital Expenditures
Item Unit Cost Qty Total
Laptop Computer 1,800.00 2 3,600.00
Software (MS-Office, Security) 500.00 2 1,000.00
Software (Broadcast) 400.00 2 800.00
Camera 200.00 2 400.00
Headset 150.00 2 300.00
Set Backdrop 220.00 2 440.00
Captioning Software 350.00 1 350.00
Website 1,000.00 1 1,000.00
TOTAL 7,890.00
GRAND TOTAL (all lectures and broadcasts) 329,690.00
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Comments From Supporters- Dust jacket quotes
taken from their books

• Nonie Darwish
• "Sharia profoundly impacts and shapes lives of
  Muslims and has tremendous global implications,
  But strangely no effective and organized
  empirical study has been made on how Sharia
  impacts Muslim society.  In that sense this book
  is a first, especially on the impact of Sharia on
  Muslim women.
• Dr. Hasan Mahmud - Director of Sharia Law at the
  Muslim Canadian Congress in Toronto
• "Too many women suffer under Sharia Law and too
  many women accept it as a matter of fact.  Only a
  few women find the courage to resist and to fight
  the agents of oppression and Nonie Darwish is
  such a fighter.  Her book should be read by all".
• - Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Author of Infidel and movie
  Submissions screenplay

• Wafa Sultan
• "Wafa Sultan paints a scorching, unforgettable
  portrait of Syrian Muslim society, especially the
  degradation of its women, and lyrically
  appreciates her adopted American homeland, which
  she calls 'the land of dreams'.  But she also
  worries that Middle East customs are encroaching
  on the West and writes with passion to awaken
  Americans to a menace they barely recognize, much
  less fear.
• Dr. Daniel Pipes - Director, Middle East Forum
• Like thousands of others I first encountered
  Wafa Sultan on a stunning YouTube video.  Here
  was a woman on Al-Jazeera TV, eloquently and
  courageously defending Western civilization,
  individualism and reason against the barbarity
  and mysticism of radical Islam".
• - Dr. Yaron Brook - President of the Ayn Rand
  Institute

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Donations made to the Middle East Forum, a 501(c)
3 organization, earmarked for Project Oasis, will
help to support this worthwhile endeavor.Thank
you.