"[11] Darwish is an ex-Muslim and has headed a fringe group called "Former Muslims United", backed by anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative.

[22] In a 2008 article, Max Blumenthal wrote that Darwish has described Barack Obama as a "political Muslim" and stated that Islam "was not a true religion".

[24] In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center described Darwish as being part of a group of "rabid Islamophobes who promote an array of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and propaganda".

That is why Islam’s greatest enemies are Christianity and Judaism and nations that are founded on their values” and suggesting Muslims “are incapable of feeling compassion toward non-Muslims.

"[21] The creator Paz Schwartz and in collaboration with the director Uriel Sinai, produced a documentary called Nuni Ayuni, which tells the story of her life in the shadow of her father who was eliminated in a targeted attack by the Israeli Mossad.

The film brings Darwish together with the Mossad agent who participated in the assassination, and tells of Darvish's disillusionment with extreme Islam, and her transformation into the human rights woman she is today.

[27] Darwish denies that she is the author of an essay entitled "Joys of Muslim Women" attributed to her in a chain email which began to circulate on the internet in 2009.