Since 9/11, Syrian-American thinker and writer Dr. Wafa Sultan has become known for her participation in Middle East political debate. Her essays, have been widely circulated, and she has made a number of notable television appearances on Al-Jazeera, CNN, and FOX News. Her name appears often in Arabic-language newspapers and websites.
She strongly believes that Islam was created to serve that paedophile-rapist and genocidal mass-murderer Mohammad and legitimize his unnatural carnal desires.
Dr. Sultan's public criticism of militant Islam sparked much debate, but it was Dr. Sultan's February 21, 2006 appearance on Al-Jazeera, which was recorded, translated, and distributed by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), that brought her name to the West. According to MEMRI, to date that single clip has been viewed - on the MEMRI website alone - over eight million times.
Dr. Sultan sees her mission as exposing and fighting radical Islam and defending human rights in the Islamic world. In May 2006, Dr. Sultan was named one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World."
A Born-Muslim Turned Anti-Islam Activist
Wafa Sultan was born into a large traditional Alawite Muslim family in Baniyas, Syria. Although Sultan wanted to be a writer, and would have preferred to study Arabic literature, she studied at the medical faculty at the University of Aleppo due to pressure from her family.
She says that she was shocked into secularism by the 1979 atrocities committed by Islamic extremists of the Muslim Brotherhood against innocent Syrians. She states that while she was a medical student, she witnessed the machine-gun assassination of her professor, Yusef al Yusef, an ophthalmologist from the university who was renowned outside Syria.
"They shot hundreds of bullets into him, shouting, 'Allahu Akbar!' " she said. "At that point, I lost my trust in their god and began to question all our teachings. It was the turning point of my life, and it has led me to this present point. I had to leave. I had to look for another god." She worked for four years as a psychiatrist in a hospital.
She, her teacher husband, and children immigrated to the United States in 1989, where she moved to Los Angeles, California, and became a naturalized citizen. Initially she had to work as a cashier in a gas station and behind the counter in a pizza parlor, but she found her treatment in these jobs better than as a medical professional in Syria.
From the time of her arrival she began to contribute articles to Arabic publications in the United States and published three books in Arabic. Sultan became notable after the September 11, 2001 attacks for her participation in Middle East political debates, with the publication of Arabic essays that were circulated widely and for television appearances on Al Jazeera and CNN in 2005.
On February 21, 2006, she took part in Al Jazeera's weekly forty-five-minute discussion program The Opposite Direction. She spoke from Los Angeles, arguing with host Faisal al-Qassem and with Ibrahim Al-Khouli, a professor at Al-Azhar University in Cairo (Egypt), about Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilizations theory.
In this video she criticised women's situation in Muslim countries, Muslims for treating non-Muslims differently and for not recognizing the accomplishments of Jews and other members of non-Muslim society while still benefiting from using their wealth and technology. The video became YouTube's most discussed video. The full transcript of the debate, which was made public later, also raised many online discussions.
Following her participation in founding of the Former Muslims United on October 13, 2009, Sultan released her first book in English, A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam. In her book Sultan relates her life story and personal relationship with Islam. She attempts to address the history of Islam from a psychological perspective, and examine the political ideology of the religion's modern form.
In October 2010 Sultan was called as an expert witness to give testimony at the Geert Wilders trial. Wilders is a Dutch politician who was charged with hate speech for his anti-Islamic statements and subsequently acquitted. At the trial Sultan confirmed that she had met Wilders several times in 2009, had seen his film Fitna, and in general agreed with his views about Islam.
On January 10, 2011, Sultan, opposing Ibrahim Ramey, appeared on the Russian television news show CrossTalk with host Peter Lavelle, where she stated: "I'm not against Muslims, I'm against Islam."
Political views
Sultan describes her thesis as witnessing "a battle between modernity and barbarism which Islam will lose". It has brought her telephone threats, but also praise from reformers. Her comments, especially a pointed criticism that "no Jew has blown himself up in a German restaurant", brought her an invitation to Jerusalem by the American Jewish Congress.
In 2006 Wafa Sultan was named in Time Magazine in a list of one hundred influential people in the world "whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world." Time stated that "Sultan's influence flows from her willingness to express openly critical views on Islamic extremism that are widely shared but rarely aired by other Muslims."
In the same Time interview, Sultan described herself as a Muslim who does not adhere to Islam, yet remains associated with the faith through her birth, rather than belief; "I even don't believe in Islam, but I am a Muslim." Also: "The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad."
Sultan, is a board member of Stop
Islamization of Nations (S.I.O.N.), an organization founded by Pamela Geller,
Robert Spencer and Anders Gravers of Stop Islamisation of Europe (S.I.O.E.).
Other board members are Iranian former Muslim Ali Sina, former Muslim activist
and author; Stefan Herre, of the blog Politically incorrect and says his
Islamophobia is without shame: "Phobia is fear, and I'm afraid of
Islam", Mordechai Kedar, an Israeli author; Babu Suseelan, a Hindu
activist; Oskar Freysinger, a Swiss politician; Cliff Kincaid, editor of the
Accuracy in Media (A.I.M.) Report; and Ashraf Rameleh the President of Voice of
the Copts. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are President and Vice President of
S.I.O.N.
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