Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan Blasts Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and Sheik Al-Qaradhawi, and States: When You Criticize Their Prophet, It Is As If You Chopped Off Muslims' Noses
Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan, which aired on Al-Hayat TV on May 29, 2008.
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Sultan is a Syrian-American psychiatrist from an Alawi family. She was 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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Wafa Sultan VS. Ahmad bin Muhammadby ZenMilitia62,695 views
Wow, I am just impressed how she mentions all those things. Is it acceptable for us to say someone who is "educated" but the way she studied is intended to "find" mistakes of other religion? If I intend my brain to study in that way, I think I will find many bad things in other religion, too. It just depends on how "objective" she studied about that. She is just someone who felt upset and try to find "excuse" for her life.
Syayid 3 months ago
stupid muslims continue the circumcision of the foreskin. same practice of the pagans and the jews.
you think a GOD that create you so perfectly and need you ignorant fuckheads to remove it for him??
you dont even have a brain to think. leave islam and join humnaity again
you fucking pig
max10wonderboy 3 months ago
@max10wonderboy Give me the verse number
abdullahmahmoud1 4 months ago
@abdullahmahmoud1
no it is written that is allowed
max10wonderboy 4 months ago
@max10wonderboy rape?!!
In Islam, Adultery is forbidden and of course rape is forbidden
I'd like to hear the verse from you
abdullahmahmoud1 4 months ago
@abdullahmahmoud1
what ethics such as rape? cohran talks aabout that has well
max10wonderboy 4 months ago
Cohran is a beduin story, composed by the messagges of the earlier prophets but only perfectionated because of the advancment of scientific knowdlege. a beduin story that become spread thanks to military and political power and now for immigration..
max10wonderboy 4 months ago
@abdull MUHAMMED FOOLED HIS FOLLOWERS. WHAT HE WANTED WAS POWER, SEX, MONEY. THE HADITHS TELL US REPEATEDLY THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO DISTRIBUTED THE BOOTY, HE GOT ONE FIFTH OF THE BOOTY LIKE A BANDIT. READ:
mUSLIM Book 19, Number 4328
My father took a sword from Khums and brought it to the Holy Prophet (mpbuh) and said: Grant it to me. He refused. At this Allah revealed (the Qur'anic verse): "They ask thee concerning the spoils of war. Say: The spoils of war are for Allah and the APOSTLE"
DictaduraNo123 4 months ago
@abdu HONOR IN ISLAM? HA HA HA..MUHAMMED WAS A BANDIT. IT IS A PITY THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW YOUR OWN MUSLIM CANONICAL TEXTS. MUHAMMED USED TO GET ONE FIFTH OF THE BOOTY LIKE A REAL THIEF. A MAN OF GOD DOESN'T ATTACK PEOPLE, DOESN'T GET PEOPLE'S POSSESSIONS AS BOOTY. SURA 8 IS CALLED THE BOOTY:
Muslim Book 19, Number 4346:
If a township disobeys Allah and His Messenger (and actually fights) one-fifth of the booty seized therefrom is for Allah and His Apostle and the rest is for you
DictaduraNo123 4 months ago
@abdull THE BOOTY, 8:41..CAN YOU ALL IMAGINE A "MAN OF GOD" THAT TAKES PEOPLE'S POSSESSIONS AS BOOTY? A MAN THAT ATTACKS PEOPLE AND TAKES ONE FIFTH OF PEOPLE'S POSSESSIONS IS CALLED A BANDIT NOWADAYS OR A THUG. MUHAMMED WAS A THUG. IN THE QURAN TAKING PEOPLE'S POSSESSION AS BOOTY IS SOMETHING VERY NORMAL. SURA 8 IS CALLED THE BOOTY. MUHAMMED WAS NOTHING BUT AN IMPOSTOR. HIS UNHOLY LIFE PROVED IT. I'M NOT CHRISTIAN BUT JESUS NEVER ATTACKED NOR TOOK ANYTHING FROM ANYBODY. HE PREACHED LOVE
DictaduraNo123 4 months ago