Posted on 03/11/2006 6:02:41 AM PST by DJ Taylor
LOS ANGELES, March 10 — Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.
Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die.
In the interview, which has been viewed on the Internet more than a million times and has reached the e-mail of hundreds of thousands around the world, Dr. Sultan bitterly criticized the Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries.
She said the world's Muslims, whom she compares unfavorably with the Jews, have descended into a vortex of self-pity and violence.
Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and barbarism, a battle that the forces of violent, reactionary Islam are destined to lose.
In response, clerics throughout the Muslim world have condemned her, and her telephone answering machine has filled with dark threats. But Islamic reformers have praised her for saying out loud, in Arabic and on the most widely seen television network in the Arab world, what few Muslims dare to say even in private.
"I believe our people are hostages to our own beliefs and teachings," she said in an interview this week in her home in a Los Angeles suburb.
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Here are more of her comments:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590808/posts
More simply put, a clash between good and evil.
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Standing O for this lady.
May she rest in peace!
I wish there were about a billion more Muslims like her.
Kudos to her for speaking out, now we need more Muslims to follow her.
"a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die."
Nothing new here. To Islam, reason and modertion deserve the death penalty.
The barbarity of Islam cannot survive in a civilized mind, and if given time, there might be hope for the 1.5 billion Muslim barbarians in the world today. But there is no time left to pull them out of the dark ages. Because of the petro dollars we have flooded the Mid East with, we now have people with the mentality of a Seventh Century goat herder able to purchase the technology to build nuclear weapons.
She isn't dead.
But there aren't.
Not yet.
I heard its a religion of peace, what gives?
I was waiting for that. :)
That's exactly right. Think about that the next time some NIMBY doesn't want a wind farm/nuclear plant/oil well where they can see it.
Granted she isn't dead YET. But given the habits of her co-religeonist it won't be long before she gets the Theo Van Gogh treatment.
I heard one of her statements on a streaming link. They'll kill her. Her days are very numbered.
She's actually an ex-muslim.
I am surrounded by people who adhere to a first century religion. One of them upstairs just made me a nice breakfast. They are not a threat.
Islam is a threat. Whether Islam was founded in the middle ages or last summer is irrelevant. It is the doctrine that makes it a threat. Convert,kill or subjugate non-believers in Islam. - tom
Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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