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Wafa Sultan (Template:Lang-ar; born 1958, Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian-born American psychiatrist and a controversial critic of Islam.

Life and career

Sultan was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Damascus, Syria. She resides in Los Angeles, California. She emigrated to the United States in 1989, and is now a naturalized citizen. She allegedly arrived in California with her husband Moufid (now David) in the late 80s on a tourist visa and later they managed to get US citizenship on account of an amnesty law for farmers, through a Mexican lady who worked as a farm hand. 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. She also gets paid to say bad things about Islam, she accepts the devil's penis, rather than accepting the truth. She enjoys riding the long penis of zionism while the devil, has his penis inside her anus. All forms of satan are ejaculating inside her filthy body, and therefore she plans on bringing the devil on earth. She says things about Islam that are not true, she just likes money and wants the long red penis of satan to penetrate her filthy mouth. She does this because she likes hot climates and would especially love a hot penis from hell.

On February 21, 2006, she took part in Al Jazeera's weekly 45-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 criticised Muslims for treating non-Muslims differently, and for not recognizing the accomplishments of Jewish and other members 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. Sultan revealed to the Times that she is working on a book to be called The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a Monster.

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.

Sultan believes that "The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force." In a discussion with Ahmad bin Muhammad, she said: "It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist and killed his humanity".

Sultan stated that she was shocked into secularism by the 1979 atrocities committed by Islamic extremists of the Muslim Brotherhood against innocent Syrian people, including the machine-gun assassination of her professor, Yusef al Yusef, an ophthalmologist renowned beyond Syria, in her classroom in front of her eyes at the University of Aleppo where she was a medical student. "They shot hundreds of bullets into him, shouting, 'God is great!' " 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." It remains however notable that Wafa Sultan has not commented on the oppression waged by the Syrian Ba'athist party against the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period, nor has she acknowledged its role in the conflict regarding the Muslim Brotherhood.

The University of Aleppo denied this, saying that the incident took place off-campus, and at a time when Sultan wasn't even around.

Recognitions

In 2006 Wafa Sultan was named in Time Magazine in a list of 100 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." Gay Adult Film Star Michael Lucas recently expressed his "disdain" for Islam by giving Wafa Sultan praise, consequently sparking debate and controversy. She is also recognized as the whore of satan. She rides his dick daily, and gets money for the nonsense she says about Islam. It is said, that the smartest thing to ever come out of her mouth, is in fact the long red dick of the devil. She sucks dick, and has the cum stains of evil in her eyes, and when she coughs, all that comes out is sperm.

Religious sentiment

In the same Time Magazine interview, Sultan conflictingly described herself as a Muslim who does not adhere to Islam: "I even don't believe in Islam, but I am a Muslim." However, in a recent conference associated with the controversial conservative writer David Horowitz, Wafa Sultan expressed her views unequivocally stating:

"I have decided to fight Islam; please pay attention to my statement; to fight Islam, not the political Islam, not the militant Islam, not the radical Islam, not the Wahhabi Islam, but Islam itself...Islam has never been misunderstood, Islam is the problem....(Muslims) have to realize that they have only two choices: to change or to be crushed."

References

1. Ruthie Blum Leibowitz. "One on One: A woman's work in progress". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2008-03-01. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
2. Gerard Henderson. "Welcome to all who pass the test". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2008-03-01. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
3. ^ John M. Broder. "For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
4. "LA Psychologist Wafa Sultan Clashes with Algerian Islamist Ahmad bin Muhammad over Islamic Teachings and Terrorism". Middle East Media Research Institute. Retrieved 2008-02-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
5. Kerry Howley. "Breaking the Silence: One woman is risking her life to speak the truth about radical Islam". Readers Digest. Retrieved 2008-09-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
6. John M. Broder. "THE SATURDAY PROFILE; For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-09-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
7. Abdussalam Mohamed. "WAFA SULTAN: Reformist or opportunist?". Southern California InFocus. Retrieved 2008-09-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
8. ^ Asra Nomani. "Wafa Sultan". Time. Retrieved 2008-02-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help) Cite error: The named reference "Time" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
9. "The People Who Shape Our World". Time. Retrieved 2008-02-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
10. Kilian Melloy. "Gay Adult Film Star Sparks Debate At Stanford". edgeboston.com. Retrieved 2008-02-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
11. "Panel:Women in Islam". YouTube. Retrieved 2008-02-24.

External links

Interviews and speeches

• Wafa Sultan discusses the effect of the Muhammad Cartoons and the freeing of Muslims
• MEMRI TV interview clip A Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st Century - #1 clip. (MEMRI transcript)

(MEMRI transcript)

• Complete English transcript of 2006-02-23 appearance, courtesy of Aqoul.com
• Who Are The Muslim Brotherhood Trying To Fool? - Sultan essay
• YouTube video clips of al-Jazeera interview: Wafa Sultan (1); Ibrahim al-Khouly (1, 2)
• Template:Ar icon The #1 Interview from the Al Jazeera site. (Transcript of the Full Version of the #1 interview in Arabic Language from the Al Jazeera site)
• Template:Ar icon Listen to the #2 Interview from the Al Jazeera site. (Transcript of the Full Version of the #2 interview in Arabic Language from the Al Jazeera site)
• Template:Ar icon Dr. Wafa Sultan Articles on the The Website of United Copts
• Template:Ar icon Video Clip of Doctor Wafaa Sultan's speech about the Human Rights Charter
• Template:Ar icon Video Clip #1 of Doctor Wafaa Sultan's speech in the Copts conference in Washington 16-19 November 2005
• Template:Ar icon Video Clip #2 of Doctor Wafaa Sultan's interview, with the Copt Sharif Mansour, during the conference in Washington 16-19 November 2005
• Template:Ar icon Dialogue with doctor Wafaa Sultan in the Paltalk. The dialogue has run by Ahmed Abaza.
• Nine minutes of Danish television. A "crack in the wall" - Wafa Sultan on the mohammed cartoons
• Template:Ar icon . Wafa Sultan on the Danish cartoons with Tala't Rmeih. Complete episode as shown on Al Jazeera on 4 March 2008.

Opinions

• Heroes & Pioneers; Wafa Sultan - A Daring Voice Calls For a New Islam TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World
• New York Times article

Critical opinions

• "Wafa Sultan: Reformist or Opportunist?"
• "Dr. Wafa Sultan: A Lost Opportunity"
• "Islam's Ann Coulter: The seductive and blinkered belligerence of Wafa Sultan" Rabbi Stephen Julius Stein
• Original script of the interview without the bias of MEMRI TV
• "How to be a Muslim reformer"
• Islam's refuseniks

• 1958 births
• American psychiatrists
• Syrian psychiatrists
• American writers
• Anti-Islam activists
• Former Muslims
• Immigrants to the United States
• Living people
• Naturalized citizens of the United States
• People from Damascus
• People from Los Angeles, California
• Syrian Americans
• Syrian writers