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Posted on 08/22/2007 1:14:13 AM PDT by Dundee
I AM sitting in a small book-lined room in Sydney's eastern suburbs with a petite woman in her late 40s dressed in a neat suit and sensible shoes.
Can this be the woman recently described as an "international sensation"? The woman who drove an American rabbi to publicly accuse her of being "Islam's Ann Coulter"? Meet Wafa Sultan...
Last year, the Syrian-born psychiatrist, who has lived in the US for almost 20 years, catapulted herself into the centre of the critical issue of our time: how will Islam embrace modernity? She entered the battle of ideas in a fiery debate with an Islamic scholar on Al Jazeera television when she criticised Islam for its backwardness, for shunning knowledge and progress, for propagating a "mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages".
One question not often asked is why a growing number of Muslim women are speaking out, demanding a reformation of Islam. And the next question is why these brave women are not hailed as heroes and champions by Western leaders at the highest levels...
Sultan spoke to The Australian about her life...
"I remember hearing as an eight-year-old girl that a woman is nothing but shame. Her marriage will cover up one-tenth of her shame and her grave will cover up the rest of it. Can you imagine, at eight, being consumed by shame just because you are female?".
Many find Sultan's message too confrontational. Her friends have asked her to soften her words. But she refuses, arguing that her experience as an Arab Muslim woman needs to be exposed...
"In my writing, I always compare my life in Syria and my life in America, and I let my readers reach a conclusion ...
"Look at any Islamic country. Tell me what you see. Poverty, backwardness, oppression, dictatorship, miserable lives...
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Come to Jesus.
With a charge like that outstanding I'd say a photo of the accused is required!
Turkey is a modern country (for the most part) that is going backwards. They had freedom. They’ve seen both sides, yet they are drifting back to the 14th century Islam, again.
Turkey is a modern country (for the most part) that is going backwards.
So was Iran, until JIMMA Carter turned his back on the Shaw.
This is why we are such a threat to Islam...and this is why it must be wiped off the face of the Earth. Anything that would allow it’s people to awaken from their antiquated totalitarian ways and embrace modern civilized freedoms is a threat to them. This cult must be eliminated if we are to survive.
And live.
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That would be a big “No!”
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