Why I Left Islam - Wafa Sultan - Introduction

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/user/dhfcenter and
http://www.frontpagemag.com

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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[rannajim]

What is the greatest Muslim contribution to Modern Society and to the world? Easy answer. AIRPORT SECURITY! I remember as a young woman traveling around the world was so easy. You bought your ticket, packed your bags and walked onto the plane. your friends and family came with you as far as the gate to say goodbye. Then Yassir Arrafats PLO

started bombing planes and airport security was born. Each time some Muslim group had a new grudge, they targeted the airlines. CONTINUED

[SargentoArmani]

Muslims are so full of hate.

They talk about peace, but all they want to do is dominate the whole world. Vote against the Sharia Law. MUSLIMS SUCK!

[Rick98RJ]

Wafa HITLER/STALIN is quoted at a lecture at the Ahavath Torah Synagogue in NYC :“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, men, women & babies?!!!!

Wafa is a Genocidal, HATEFUL Psychopath!!!!

[ahaji79]

If Christians called terrorists as Muslims (which any educated of any Religion knows), then how about Muslims refer to Strippers as Christians? Oh, and announce it through every form of the media too! Are you proud of how stupid you people are? I feel sorry for you.

[ahaji79]

You people attacking Islam are obviously ignorant. Do you know anything about Islam in the first place? Don't you know that terrorist acts are 100% against Islamic teachings?! Better yet, don't you know that it is your Government and the Jew-Controlled Media is what brain washed lazy idiots like you that made you comment like you and that Terrorist published on TV are the creation of your fucking US government!!! Wake up you sad lost souls. The Internet is full of correct information about Islam

[MrJohnnyrace]

WoW ! All the muslums voting this video down. They cant handle the truth. Islam sucks !!

[SuperAmeen86]

@theallahsnackbar . just mind ur own business. no need of commenting anybody.

[XxJubanixXX]

wafa was a muslim lmaoooooo omgg. its funny to me how she is fooling the western world who believe in hollywood movies and spongebob square pants loool. omgggg im cracking up. we knew this hoe before travling to the western world.(period)

[AQASHAH7595]

now u sound just like sum stinky armpit...duhhh

[arabictongue]

She has never been a Muslim. Bring a good liar! Whether she fools you or you think she can fool us.

[Imhornydadcomeinside]

@osamyoosama Islam is only winning ground because muslims are immigrating. However, the muslim teenagers in western civilization is becoming more and more like westerners than typical muslims.