Wafa Sultan: The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam (2 of 2)

Sultan is a Syrian-American psychiatrist from an Alawi family. She is herself a Sunni Muslim. Well, she was born and raised as one, at any rate. And, unlike many of her sympathizers, she does not hold with the opinion that Islam was "hijacked" by extremists. On the contrary, she says, serious research into the holy texts led to her own personal rejection of the religion. The faith, she says, cannot be reformed, but rather has to be "transformed."

She grew up as a religious girl in Banyias ("a small town on the Mediterranean"), attended medical school in Aleppo, and now lives as a secular American in California, where she settled in 1989, eight months after her husband, and two years before her two elder children (her youngest was born in the US).

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But 1979 was the real turning point of our lives. It was the year I witnessed the murder of a professor of mine. While shooting him, the killers were screaming "Allahu Akbar [God is great]!"

I was in a state of shock. The sound of the bullets became associated in my mind with Allah.

JP: Why was your professor targeted?

For no reason other than belonging to the Allawi sect of Islam - that of the president - while the majority in Syria were Sunnis. And at that time, there was a bloody conflict between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood. But I knew for a fact that he was not involved in politics. I was devastated, and began to question what kind of Allah this is.

JP: Until then, were you and your family devout Muslims?

Oh yes. I had to fast, I had to preach about Islam...

JP: What altered that?

After the trauma of the murder in the name of Allah, I delved into all the Islamic texts - the Koran and the Hadith - carefully studying each, one by one.

Look, the Iraqi woman on the panel [Pascale Warda] told me about a case of a man killed in Iraq for selling ice, since Muhammed didn't use ice. Can you imagine? According to Sharia, selling ice is a crime! She also told me that Iraqis believe that you must not put cucumbers and tomatoes in the same bag, because cucumbers are male and tomatoes are female. This is an example of a dangerous belief system driving bad behavior.

JP: Do you think a "transformation" will be best achieved through the men or the women?

Through the women. Muslim women have everything to gain by a transformed Islam and nothing to lose. They've already lost everything. Muslim men, on the other hand, won't relinquish their powers so easily.

JP: Are Western feminists on your side? I have encountered Americans and Israelis who - when it comes to the rights of women in Arab countries - side with multiculturalism. Has this been your experience as well?

Yes it has. I haven't received the kind of support I expected from women in the US. Recently, I gave a speech at the University of California, and during the question period, an American woman told me she didn't believe the things I was saying about Muslim men's treatment of women. She said: "Muhammed was the first man on earth to give women rights."

I responded, "Would you please tell me what some of those rights are, so I can tell Muslim women to be aware of them?"

She said, "I don't know, but I was invited to a mosque in LA, and that's what the mullah told us."
Can you believe how naive these women are?

Source: The Jerusalm Post www.jpost.com

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[Coupal1]

Wafa Sultan is one of the most important spokesPERSONS on the rights of women. Bravo! There is something wrong with a culture that treats half its population as less than human. I believe that one of the ways to defeat radical Islam is to stand up for rights of woman AS HUMAN BEINGS.

[pkart7]

Anyone who follows a belief system which encourages or justifies the mistreatment, execution, rape, and beating of women also encourage those who do such things in accordance to that system. In today's world, no one, ideally, should follow religious doctrine, given that a new rise of morality has come with each passing decade. I know this will never happen, people are stubborn in their ways, but strict doctrine must nevertheless be fought and pushed to the edge of existence. peace

[ReptilianFreemason]

5//

.........when we didn't know how to explain natural phenomena. There's no excuse for such irrational beliefs in this day & age with the evidence available to us. Religion has done enough damage & hindered the advancement of our species for far too long, it's time we put pay to these silly myths once & for all.

Who are you to judge you say? You're a Muslim, you're generally judge, jury & excecutioner.

Ps. You didn't answer my question, do you find it acceptable to fuck young children?

[ReptilianFreemason]

4//

.........who condones paedophilia & such violence. I would rather burn for eternity. In regards to me finding peace, what exactly would you know about peace being a pro-Gaddafi Muslim?? The world will NEVER know peace whilst religions (specifically Islam) exist like the cancer on humanity they are. Belief in imaginary beings brings with it conflict, bloodshed, oppression & death. It has NOTHING beneficial to offer whatsoever, it's merely a pathetic leftover from man's ignorant past.........

[ReptilianFreemason]

3//

........proud to have done something so brave, what a fantastic role model for Muslim women. No doubt you prefer your women to be subservient, mute, sex objects/punch bags. What would it take for me to seal my fate? How about if i draw a picture of Allah sucking Muhammad's cock whilst getting fucked in the ass by a dog? Would that seal my fate because even if your imaginary despot dictator in the sky was real (which, i assure you he isn't), i couldn't bring myself to bow to a being.........

[ReptilianFreemason]

2//

.........the genitals of children & use quranic scripture to justify all kinds of depraved, sickening behaviour.

Yes she was indeed a Muslim but she was disgusted & repulsed by Islam which is no surprise considering the vile, abhorrent shit you people get up to encouraged by your evil faith system. She witnessed those horrors first hand & if you were a real man & had any decency or value for human life & equality, a Muslim you would not be. As for being worse than me, i would be...........

[ReptilianFreemason]

@PresidentObamanation

1//

What a great & exceptionally brave woman who i hope will be remembered for a very long time. Most Muslim women aren't so lucky & are too scared to voice their real opinions of you fucking animals. Sealed her fate in the next life?? Allah isn't real, there is no afterlife, or certainly not one that Muslims speak of anyhow. I'm afraid there is no rationalising with such an indoctrinated mind. You follow a paedophile, you rape & beat your women, forcefully..........

[ReptilianFreemason]

@329409139360

You're a disgrace to the human race & deserve everything you get. The again, you've been completely brainwashed by your Islamic cult so i don't suppose it's really your fault. If only all Muslim women were as brave & as noble as Wafa Sultan, a great women she truly is. Next time you find yourself picking your teeth out of the back of your mouth, remember to thank Allah yeah ;)

[PresidentObamanation]

@ReptilianFreemason you and her can think alike and I am sure you search for this kind of crap to indulge your sadistic zionist desires....I have no doubt she is not a Muslim and was never a Muslim, so she can stop fooling herself. actually she is worse than you, you still have a chance but she has sealed her fate in the next life.

Anyway, I hope you find peace and i do not hate you or her, as who am I to judge.

[ReptilianFreemason]

@PresidentObamanation

How evil of her to allow herself to get beaten & abused by you sick, twisted camel fuckers. Do you also believe it's acceptable to fuck young children like your beloved Muhammad? Animals the lot of you, a disgrace to humanity.

[ReptilianFreemason]

@MIKESEATTLE1

Truth hurts hey, i except you refuse to accept you follow a genocidal, war-mongering, paedophile too?

[Rick98RJ]

@Coupal1 Wafa (HITLER/STALIN): quoted @ a lecture @ the Ahavath Torah Synagogue in NYC as saying: “I believe King Abdullah can change Islam overnight, but you need to put pressure on him to do it, and the same kind of pressure you put on Japan, you might need it” at that moment someone from the audience interjects and asks, “atom bombs?” Wafa Sultan replies, “Yes. At some point the West will need to do it.”

Nuke innocent WOMEN & babies!

Who can praise this GENOCIDAL, HATEFUL MANIAC?!