Re:Is Wafa Sultan Still Alive?
« Reply #1 on: 2008-02-05 20:31:21 »
Yes she is still alive.
The video is famous as it has been heavily promoted by MEMRI, the Zionist pseudo news and faux translation service run by refugees from the Israeli intelligence services.
Looked at rationally, the fact that Al Jazeerah broadcast this interview says much for them. It is as if Fox had invited and broadcast a strong and effective criticism of Christianity in prime time viewing (something I somehow doubt has ever happened). For of course, one can and should offer the same criticisms of Christianity as practiced by our national leader and other brain damaged idiots as Wafa Sultan offered of Islam. The problem is not a specific branch of the Judeo-Islamic-Christian religion, but of all of them, and most likely of all irrational beliefs.
Sultan was born in Damascus to an Alawi family.[1]She resides in Los Angeles, California. She emigrated to the United States in 1989, and is now a naturalized citizen. Sultan has become notable since the September 11, 2001 attacks for her participation in Middle East political debates, with Arabic essays that circulated widely and some television appearances on Al-Jazeera and CNN.
On February 21, 2006, she took part in Al Jazeera's weekly 90-minute discussion program The Opposite Direction. She spoke from Los Angeles, arguing with host Faisal al-Qassem and with Ibrahim Al-Khouli about Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilizations theory. A six minute composite video of her remarks was subtitled and widely circulated by MEMRI on weblogs and through e-mail. In this video she scolded Muslims for treating non-Muslims differently and for not recognizing the accomplishments of non-Muslim society, while using its wealth and technology.
The New York Times estimated that the video of her appearance was viewed at least one million times as it spread via weblogs and email.[2] Sultan revealed to the Times that she is working on a book to be called The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a Monster.
Her book will probably do well among the neoconeheads, given that she espouses Huntingdon's ridiculous litany which, as our archives attest, plays a significant role in neoconned ideology.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
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