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Wafa Sultan (Arabic: وفاء سلطان) (born 1959?, Banias, Syria) is a secular Syrian-American psychologist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Sultan has become noted since the September 11, 2001 attacks for her participation in Middle East political debates, with Arabic essays that circulated widely and some notable television appearances on Al-Jazeera and CNN.
On February 21, 2006, Sultan spoke from Los Angeles on Al Jazeera, where she argued with the host and Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli about the Samuel Huntington Clash of Civilizations theory, scolding Muslims for treating non-Muslims differently and for not recognizing the accomplishments of non-Muslim society, while using its wealth and technology. The video subtitled by MEMRI circulated widely on weblogs and through e-mail.
The New York Times estimated that the video of her appearance was viewed at least four million times as it spread via weblogs and e-mail. Her thesis, described as witnessing "a battle between modernity and barbarism" which Islam will lose, 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 Tel Aviv, Israel by the American Jewish Congress.
Sultan revealed to the Times that she is working on a book to be titled The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a Monster, and says she was shocked into secularism by the 1979 atrocities commited by the Muslim Brotherhood against innocent Syrian people including the machine-gun assassination of her professor 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."
Sultan and her husband David Sultan emigrated to the U.S. in 1989, and both are now naturalized citizens. She said she fears for the safety of relatives remaining in Syria.
Sources
- John M. Broder (March 11, 2006). "For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2006.
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External links
Sultan's website
Further reading
- MEMRI TV interview clip
- MEMRI transcript
- Islam Is The Source Of Terror - July 31, 2005 appearance transcript
- Who Are The Muslim Brotherhood Trying To Fool? - Sultan essay
- NY Times article