Contact: Jenny Kefauver, JK Public Relations, 703-842-7405, jenny@jkpublicrelationsdc.com

LOS ANGELES, April 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Twenty-three individuals share their heartbreaking, harrowing personal accounts of leaving the Islamic faith in an eye-opening new book, "Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out" (WND Books, ISBN 9780979267109, April 29), compiled and edited by Susan Crimp and Joel Richardson. The Council on American-Islam Relations, better known as CAIR, strongly condemned "Why We Left Islam" in a recent New York Daily News article. CAIR cited not just the cover, the first from an American publisher to feature a vivid, unveiled rendering of Mohammad, but the shocking true stories in which former Muslims condemn their former faith at risk of death.

Islam, the world's fastest-growing religion, is a dangerous dead-end path, warn the contributors. "'Why We Left Islam' shows the true face of Islam, a religion that will not live in peace with the non-Muslim world," according to the editors. "It's past time for Westerners to learn the truth about Islam from those who have escaped its yoke."

In the face not just of virulent criticism from CAIR and its media enablers but literal death threats from radical Muslim leaders, the contributors share their shocking, disturbing stories:

- The former PLO terrorist who grew up dreaming of becoming a martyr for Islam but converted to Christianity and now has a $10 million bounty on his head
- A survivor of the horrendous methods that are used on non-Muslim women to physically and emotionally coerce them into converting to Islam
- An Iranian woman whose physician sister set herself on fire rather than submit to Iran's mullahs
- The young man whose own father delivered him to the authorities for leaving Islam, and the physical tortures he endured at their hands

Attacks by CAIR are par for the course whenever the raw truths about Islam are revealed. States editor Joel Richardson, "Whatever CAIR must do to take the focus off the brutally honest testimonies contained in 'Why We Left Islam' they will do, but it doesn't change the reality of Islam as reflected in this book -- a religion that is both brutal and unforgiving."

To interview the editors of or contributors to "Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out" from WND Books, please contact Jenny at JK Public Relations (703) 842-7405, or email jenny@jkpublicrelationsdc.com