Your Thoughts On This Please- an exploration of culture clash

[Jabberwocky]

Ive had the Aljazeera site in favourites for a while now and I must say its a good read.

[poppins]

Her name is Dr Wafa Sultan and she is something of a celebrity on US TV talk shows. She is the worst nightmare of muslim extremists everywhere. Not only is she an ex-muslim, she is of course extremely articulate in her criticism of Islam (which she does from a humanist perspective). What is more, she is the very opposite of the submissive and docile female which these extremists appear to prefer. On another video, she gives a leading Islamic 'scholar' a vicious verbal beating in response to his comments on the role of women.

 

She is not, of course, the only muslim or ex-muslim woman to do this. There are several others out there, perhaps most notably Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who are also fierce critics of the religion they were brought up in.

 

LC. I've never seen or heard of her on any US talk shows, if anything FOX would have had her on by now I would think, Googling her, it says she was unknown up until 3 weeks ago, hope she gets to make the rounds before she gets her head chopped off.

[ducatiboy]

LC. I've never seen or heard of her on any US talk shows, if anything FOX would have had her on by now I would think, Googling her, it says she was unknown up until 3 weeks ago, hope she gets to make the rounds before she gets her head chopped off.

 

Yeah and they will show the execution just after ugly ahmed at 9:hihi:

[StarSparkle]

LC. I've never seen or heard of her on any US talk shows, if anything FOX would have had her on by now I would think, Googling her, it says she was unknown up until 3 weeks ago, hope she gets to make the rounds before she gets her head chopped off.

 

Very, very brave woman - I hope she stays safe.

 

StarSparkle

[poppins]

Very, very brave woman -

 

StarSparkle

 

Ooop! I thought you meant me for a minute there Star

[LordChaverly]

LC. I've never seen or heard of her on any US talk shows, if anything FOX would have had her on by now I would think, Googling her, it says she was unknown up until 3 weeks ago, hope she gets to make the rounds before she gets her head chopped off.

 

Well poppins, as she lives in California, I doubt very much if she will lose her head (Arnie will protect her, I am sure). As for her TV appearances, she has definitely been on CNN and I have a vague recollection of seeing her on Fox also (although it could have been NBC!). She has featured in Time magazine and has also given interviews in the NYT and also in the Los Angeles Times, as the following brief report shows. I have been aware of her for some years now and am rather surprised that she is not more well known in the UK.

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187385,00.html

[StarSparkle]

Ooop! I thought you meant me for a minute there Star

 

Fraid not, Poppins... Although I think you are quite brave to hold some of the views you do...

 

StarSparkle

[poppins]

Well poppins, as she lives in California, I doubt very much if she will lose her head (Arnie will protect her, I am sure). As for her TV appearances, she has definitely been on CNN and I have a vague recollection of seeing her on Fox also (although it could have been NBC!). She has featured in Time magazine and has also given interviews in the NYT and also in the Los Angeles Times, as the following brief report shows. I have been aware of her for some years now and am rather surprised that she is not more well known in the UK.

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187385,00.html

 

Bit strange that NYT, Time mag, CNN or NBC would give her any kind of publicity at all

[LordChaverly]

Bit strange that NYT, Time mag, CNN or NBC would give her any kind of publicity at all

 

How so poppins? Do you mean that most of these outlets have leftist agendas which somehow run counter to Sultan's message? Or do you mean that they might be scared of upsetting the muslim minority in the US? As the latter is so small, I doubt if the latter can be the reason.

[steev]

Well poppins, as she lives in California...

 

After watching that I'm glad for her that she lives in California...

 

And after all the reasoned arguments she comes up with the only response the cleric come come up with was "Are you an infidel?", puh-lease.

 

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. I thought evangelising was frowned upon under Islam?