Carnal Reason

A nightmare is unfolding for some. A secret dread has come to life. Muslim women are speaking out.

It would be hard to imagine a place more remote from the violence and turmoil of the Middle East than this quiet cul-de-sac in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles. But as David Sultan opens the front door of his home he glances up and down the street anxiously.He has good reason to be nervous: ever since Dr Wafa Sultan, his wife, appeared on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic television network, last summer she has been receiving death threats. During that and a second broadcast in February Dr Sultan, who was brought up as a Muslim in Syria, denounced the teachings and practice of Islam as “barbaric” and “medieval”.

“The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilisations,” the impassioned 47-year-old told Al-Jazeera’s stunned audience across the Arab world. “It is a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between human rights on the one hand and the violation of these rights on the other, between those who treat women like beasts and those who treat them like human beings.”

The broadcasts have caused an unholy stir in the Muslim world and virtually overnight have turned Sultan, previously known only to a few for her writings on www.annaqed.com, a small Arab-American website, into one of the most controversial figures in the international debate about Islam. The broadcasts have been downloaded more than 1m times from the internet and she has been interviewed on CNN and profiled by The New York Times and Le Monde.

While some acclaim her as “a voice of reason” others have denounced her as a “heretic” and insist that she deserves to die. What seems to have most infuriated many Muslims were Sultan’s comparisons between how Jews and Muslims have coped with the tragedies that have befallen them.

“The Jews have come from tragedy and forced the world to respect them,” she said, “with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling.

“We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.”
Timesonline

Wafa Sultan has my deepest admiration. She and her sisters are the ones who can decide the clash between barbarity and rationality. They can free themselves and by doing so prevent the destruction of their world.

The Muslim world is running out of time. The Islamist plan for world domination is to provoke the West into total war because this will unify Muslims against the dhimmi. Allah will then give the victory to his people. Charlie Manson had a similar plan (and methods). It didn’t work out for him. Given enough time some sufficiently heinous act will succeed in provoking the West, and a nuclear submarine will open up on targets to be determined. Allah will do nothing to stop the fireballs.

Preventing this requires dragging hundreds of millions of people into the present. The West alone cannot do it quickly enough. We need help from the inside. We must help the nascent rebellion among the enslaved, the Muslim women. I fear many of them will be killed, but they will succeed. They have already begun. Freedom is a virus, and they are infected. Frankly, they don’t have a hell of a lot to lose, and a world to win.

Posted on March 20th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: slavery, war