Posted on 03/17/2006 5:32:09 AM PST by Dark Skies
An amazing and courageous Arab woman has gotten little attention here in the United States, even though she is now an American. But Dr. Wafa Sultan got plenty of attention in the Middle East when she appeared on Al Jazeera a few weeks ago.
Dr. Sultan did the unthinkable: She appeared on Arab television and condemned Islam. She was there to “debate” not one, but two Islamic scholars. One was an Egyptian professor of religious studies identified as Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouli and the other was an unidentified Algerian cleric. They were so furious that both men quickly labeled her a “heretic.” Viewers who see the segments now posted on the Internet will observe one man waving his arms around in frustration and the other nervously shuffling papers as though he is searching for an answers that he can’t seem to find.
The very fact that a woman dared to speak out against Islam was insult enough for them, but when she left them speechless with her undeniable logic, their anger and hatred came through like a tidal wave. The refusal to respond to her charges spoke volumes.
Dr. Sultan was born to devout Muslim parents and raised in Syria. She herself was a practicing Muslim until she experienced a life-changing event as she was working towards her medical degree at the University of Aleppo in Syria. Masked gunmen entered her classroom and as they shouted, “God is Great!” they riddled her professor’s body with bullets. It was that day that she began to question Islam and its claim that it is a religion of peace.
Dr. Sultan did what Muslims are forbidden to do: She began to question the teachings of Islam, Mohammed, and the Quran. Once a Muslim begins to question Islam it can be like a dam bursting, and threats from Islam cannot hold it back. This onslaught of questions is what Islamic leaders fear. Once unleashed, this desire for answers about Islam’s teachings cannot be put aside--and they cannot be answered. The threat of death and eternal hell is Islam’s only of control over the masses.
Within Islam, there is no greater sin than to question the teachings of Islam or Mohammed, and to do so is considered heresy and blasphemy and is punishable by death. Dr. Sultan is now a marked woman and no one is more aware of this than she. She now receives daily death threats but takes them all in stride. She is a woman at peace with her decision to speak out.
As she put forth one accusation after another, the two Islamic scholars had no answers. Their only response was that they didn’t have to respond to her because she was blaspheming Islam.
There is no logical response that the two Islamic religious leaders could have given when a strong and defiant Dr. Sultan tore into them with statements such as this: “The Jews have come from the tragedy and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not with their crying and yelling. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.”
Dr. Sultan finished her opening salvo with: “Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.”
The two Islamic scholars were not only bowled over by a strong woman’s words against Islam, but by the double insult of comparing Muslims to Jews.
What must concern the leaders of Islam is that the taped interview was seen by millions of Muslims in the Arab world. That interview is now available on the Internet and according to a report in the New York Times has already been viewed over a million times. Muslims are seeing a strong and successful woman orally challenge two male Islamic leaders and their only response was that they didn’t have to respond. These arrogant men looked like children being scolded by their mother.
Dr. Sultan went on to demand that the clerics explain a religion that encourages its young people to commit suicide and murder in the name of God. In a clear voice she declared to the two angry men: “It [the war] is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality.”
Who is better to put the War against Islam in its simplest terms than a woman who has witnessed its brutality and oppression first hand? This words of this amazing woman are not just important to Muslims but to Americans who still believe in the fantasy that Islam is a religion of peace.
Dr. Sultan was raised to be a good and obedient Muslim. Without realizing it, Muslims all over the world are mentally imprisoned by the teachings of Islam. By means of lies, threats, extreme physical punishment, and brainwashing, the hierarchy of Islam orders the followers of Islam to commit the most heinous acts of violence and terrorism in the name of God.
When forced to explain this violent “religion” called Islam, the scholars have no answers. The experts wave their hands and bellow “blasphemy and heretic” and send their obedient followers out to the streets to burn and riot to deflect attention from their own inability to answer questions about their own beliefs. Death threats to the perceived “heretic” soon follow.
There is no forgiveness within Islam for believers who have chosen the path of enlightenment and freedom from the chains of Islam. “Verily, those who disbelieved after their Belief and then went on increasing in their disbelief--never will their repentance be accepted.” (3:90-91) Islamic law states that according to Allah’s apostle Mohammed, there are only three accepted reasons to shed the blood a Muslim: One who has shed the blood of another Muslim without cause, one who has committed adultery, and a Muslim who becomes an apostate. (Abandons Islam) Anyone who decides no longer to abide by the tyrannical laws of Islam is put in the same category as a murderer and an adulterer.
Dr. Sultan should be invited to speak on as many American television talk shows as possible to explain to her fellow Americans the danger of the enemy this country faces. She has put her life on the line to try and save other Muslims from the mass suicide they are engaging in, on the orders of men who know the truth but refuse to speak it. The power and prestige given to these “scholars” by Islam is far more important to them than the lives of ordinary Muslims.
To those threatening Dr. Sultan with death, she says only this: “I have no fear. I believe in my message. It is like a million-mile journey, and I believe I have walked the first and hardest 10 miles.”
Indeed, the hardest thing in the life of any Muslim may be realizing that Islam is a lie. Only then is freedom realized. Like a drowning man who reaches the surface and takes that first breath of air, realizing the truth about Islam is the first and most difficult step for a Muslim, but the journey of life now free is worth the struggle.
Islam fears people like Dr. Sultan. If ten Muslims listen to her and question, the number will grow exponentially and Islam will be forced to evolve and join the modern world or Islam as we know it will perish. Free people will not mourn Islam’s passing and the world be a better place for it.
Thump Up for her but becareful...pls pray but make sure your eye open and caution...don't want to see your head ROLL!!!
Well, just to be on the safe side, I wish she'd get one of those noses.
excellent! thanks.
>"View it here! And have your sound on!"<
PING to freeper 'Question Assumptions'. This woman did exactly THAT; she "questioned assumptions", and now she recieves death threats for doing so:
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
"Dr. Sultan did what Muslims are forbidden to do: She began to question the teachings of Islam, Mohammed, and the Quran.
Within Islam, there is no greater sin than to question the teachings of Islam or Mohammed, and to do so is considered heresy and blasphemy and is punishable by death.
Dr. Sultan is now a marked woman and no one is more aware of this than she. She now receives daily death threats but takes them all in stride. She is a woman at peace with her decision to speak out."
Great video! She left that Koran scholar in a sputtering rage.
Some more from her: http://www.annaqed.com/english/politics/who_are_the_muslim_brotherhood_trying_to_fool.html
By the way, I've also ordered Oriana Fallaci's two books. The conflict between cultures does interest me and I do think that one is going one. I just don't think the delimiting line is necessarily between Muslim and Christian but between Western civilization and Arab civilization, influenced by but not entirely defined by religion. There are Westernized Muslims. Perhaps they are bad Muslims. I don't really care. If they can live peacefully withing or along side Western civilization, they are not my enemy. Those seeking to destroy Western civilization are. And all Muslims are not seeking to destroy Western civilization any more than the numbers of seeking to destroy Western civilization is confined to Muslims only.
bttt
thanks for the link, some very interesting comments to Dr. Wafa Sultan; and almost all of them positive.
I'm all in favor of an honest debate about Islam. I'm not in favor of persecuting Muslims simply because they are Muslim but are not otherwise doing anything else wrong. You may not be calling for that but other Freepers are.
An honest confrontation about the religion of Islam is not persecution. Muslims also need to be confronted with an honest evaluation of the "prophet" Muhammad. As of yet, that has not been happening.
It's starting to happen. This article names several women who are doing it, for example.
-The largest populations of Muslims are not Arab, anymore.
Correct. Yet you will notice that he largest numbers of terrorists are not coming from those non-Arab populations of Muslims. Why do you think Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, "Palestine", and other Arab areas are generating more terrorists than even Iran?
So the premise that this is an Arab culture clash is false.
There are many radical Muslims who are not Arab.
There are also many Arabs who aren't Muslim.
As a proportion, more radical Muslims and terrorists are Arabs. Of those who aren't Arabs themselves, most seem to be embracing the whole nine yards of Arab-Islamic culture, including elements that are not really in the Koran (e.g., head scarves, circumcision, etc.). Islam did not define many of those elements of Arab and give them to the Arabs. Many (if not most) sects of Islam absorbed many of those elements from Arab culture and made them Islamic.
Of course all the Muslims aren't radical. But around 40% of Muslims polled in England support the imposition of Sharia law.
That means that 60% of Muslims, a clear majority, don't support the imposition of Sharia law.
-That is a very large minority of Muslims who support a form of oppression; the imposition of Islamic law.
Absolutely, and it's sad and needs to be addressed. But let's not forget that they are not the majority and we shouldn't just group the majority in with this minority and punish them all. We should make distinctions. I'm not saying that all Muslims, guilty or innocent, should be protected from criticism. I'm saying that we need to at least make some attempt to differentiate the guilty and the innocent and not consider them all guilty simply because they are Muslims. You might not be doing that. Other Freepers are.
Again, an honest look at Muhammad and Islam is not persecution.
I never said it was. In fact, I think it's healthy, just as I think a good honest look at Jesus and Christianity is healthy.
-That sounds like you're laying the problems of Mohamedism at the feet of the Arabs, instead of at the feet of Muhammad, where it belongs.
"Why do you think Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, "Palestine", and other Arab areas are generating more terrorists than even Iran?"
-Because according to an Iranian friend of mine; many Iranians don't even believe in Islam anymore, and have a dim view of Muhammad, The younger generation is very secular.
There's been plenty of terrorism in non-Arab Islamic countries. Surely you've heard of the terrorism at Band Aceh, Indonesia, in the Philippians, etc.... the problems Gen. Pershing had with the Moros?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1695576.stm
>"In fact, I think it's healthy, just as I think a good honest look at Jesus and Christianity is healthy."<
Sadly, I've seen you use moral relativism, (equivalence) IE: Especially when you have tried to equivovcate Jesus actions and words in a negative light, with the deeds of Muhammad.
Dr. Sultan has got brass ones. She deserves a big bump.
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. The Pope
b. Billy Graham
c. Donald Duck
d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Christians
b. Jews
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. Lutherans
b. Catholics
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. Baptists
b. Lutherans
c. catholics
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. Catholics
b. protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Catholics
b. protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
C. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Baptists
b. The Lutheran Church
c. Hindus
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
c. Jews
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
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