On Feb. 21, 2006, the Syrian-born and raised Wafa Sultan gave one of the most provocative interviews ever given by a Muslim woman on the Al Jazeera network. In the middle of the interview she told her male Muslim interviewer that it was her turn to speak. And, she did. She told him to “shut up”. This simple, yet radical, act of a Muslim woman asserting herself in the face of a Muslim man, catapulted her to fame. Now, for the first time, Wafa Sultan tells her story and airs her provocative views in a book that pulls no punches in looking clearly at Islam and the threat it poses for the rest of the world. Her viewpoint and opinions were hard won: As an intelligent young girl who would someday become a psychiatrist, she grew up in Syria under the thumb of a culture ruled by a god who hates women and all they represent. It is from this kernel of female hatred at the heart of Islam that Wafa Sultan builds her case against the mullahs and their followers bent on destroying the West. A God Who Hates is a fiery book that will remind readers why, even at a time when we are reaching out to others, we must be ever-vigilant about the threat Islam poses towards the West.
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"An absorbing book, full of Dickensian details."--Forbes
"Wafa Sultan is a great heroine of our times, willing to risk everything to stand up to these immense evils when most people are too fainthearted or politically correct to do so. A God Who Hates should be read closely and studied by the President, European leaders, and all Western policymakers and opinion-shapers -- before it is too late."-- Robert Spencer, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad
“Wafa Sultan experienced firsthand the immense contempt of human dignity Islam harbours, and the unimaginable cruelty Muslim women have to endure on a daily basis, resulting from it. Her compelling book is a touching life story filled with bone chilling examples of what it is like to live in a society that is ruled by Islam and how valuable our Western freedom truly is. It is because brave women like Wafa Sultan have the courage to speak out against this doctrine of hate that we in the West have been forewarned. I hope that everyone reads this book and takes note of the important message it contains. We must defend our precious liberties, our Western freedom and never give in to Islam.”-- Geert Wilders, member of the Dutch Parliament and leader of the Party for Freedom
"With rare courage and candor, Wafa Sultan throws open the shuttered windows on Islam, letting clean, bright sunshine pour into its darkest corners to illuminate Islam from the inside. This is where she lived it, confronted it, and ultimately rejected its sacralized teachings--on women, on marriage, on children, on Christians, on Jews, on freedom of conscience, on war, on world domination—as a humanity-warping pathology based on hate and fear. Such is the fascinating psychological analysis that is the underpinning achievement of A God Who Hates: With unique insight and unstinting compassion, Wafa Sultan, a trained psychiatrist, employs her expertise to put Islam on the couch. The results of her analysis will startle, engage, deepen and transform every reader’s understanding of Islam forever."-- Diana West, author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization
“Wafa Sultan paints a scorching, unforgettable portrait of Syrian Muslim society, especially the degradation of its women, and lyrically appreciates her adopted American homeland, which she calls “the land of dreams.” But she also worries that Middle East customs are encroaching on the West and writes with passion to awaken Americans to a menace they barely recognize, much less fear.”--Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum
“Like thousands of others, I first encountered Wafa Sultan on a stunning YouTube video. Here was a woman on Al-Jazeer a TV, eloquently and courageously defending Western civilization, individualism and reason against the barbarity and mysticism of radical Islam. Her performance was mesmerizing. She was articulate, self-confident, and outspoken. She stunned the audience, the interviewer and the pathetically out-matched Imam who opposed her. Now Wafa Sultan has written her life story in this powerful book. She exposes the ugliness that is Muslim society in theMiddle East, while unapologetically defending the Western values she adopted when rejecting the religion of Islam. If you want to understand this courageous woman, who continues to fight for her beliefs in spite of death threats, and to understand her views on the conflict between Islam and the West, this is a must read.”--Yaron Brook, Ph.D., President and Executive Director, The Ayn Rand Institute
About the Author
WAFA SULTAN is a Syrian-born American psychiatrist included on Time Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2006. She created a firestorm on Al-Jazeera as the first Arab Muslim woman on that network who demanded to be heard.
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Sultan's book confirms the opinion of the aforementioned authors, an position that contradicts the "narrative" of the mainstream media and academics in Middle Eastern studies departments of a "religion of peace" given a bad name by a few radicals. It is more ideology than religion in which the position of women is rather grim, as Sultan reveals the degradations suffered by her grandmother, mother and sisters. Women are considered inferior throughout these societies - helpless victims of Sharia law that opens them to abuse.
The author insists that the hatred emanates from the Islamic scriptures and tradition. Like Ali Sina's psychobiography Understanding Muhammad, she analyses the personality of the prophet, the god and the influence of the nomadic desert existence that gave birth to it. Sultan confirms what Ayaan Hirsi Ali reports about the antisemitism she encountered in Saudi Arabia, a phenomenon seemingly universal in the Arab World. This observation is also echoed by Nonie Darwish in Now They Call Me Infidel.
Of particular concern are her citations of the qualities of the deity in the Koran as Avenger, Compeller, Death Bringer, Harmer, Humiliator & Imperious and her theory that these appellations have been internalized and are being acted out by the followers of the religion. Her portrayal of the raging, bellowing deity that terrifies the believers into submissive despair is tragic and frightening. She makes a convincing case that the belief system itself is responsible for the intolerance, misogyny and social ills that plague Muslim societies.
Sultan demonstrates how a variety of evils result from the fear-based ideology. Ordinary believers are caught in the mental vise of its harsh tenets. She discusses the famous interview on Al-Jazeerah TV and the impact it has had on the Muslim world. She is grateful to her adopted country for the sanctuary, freedom and joy it gives her. Her description of the small things that she appreciates is very moving and shows how much we westerners take for granted. She encourages the USA to resist the proliferation of radical Islamism and to take a pro-active approach in combating it.
In the concluding chapter Sultan criticizes Colin Powell's remarks made during the US presidential election campaign of 2008. On "Meet The Press" Powell claimed that nothing would be amiss with Americans electing a Muslim President. She points out Powell's perilously limited understanding and the political correctness behind it that renders rational discussion of the ideology's destructive aspects virtually impossible.
I highly recommend this often harrowing but ultimately uplifting account of a journey to physical and spiritual freedom along with Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin and Infidel, Brigitte Gabriel's Because They Hate and They Must Be Stopped, Now They Call Me Infidel and Cruel and Usual Punishment by Nonie Darwish as well as The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci.
Liberal Christians, Unitarians, New Agers, universalists and the politically correct have long touted the auspicious truism that all religions are founded on the “do unto others” axiom; hopefully, they keep insisting, believing the aphorism “say something often enough and it becomes true.” Sultan challenges modern liberal humanitarians, politicians, academics and positivists to examine the stark facts about Islam literally, historically and culturally. After doing so can they in good conscience include Islam as a being a valid benevolent, moral and peace-loving religious organism that can contribute to mankind’s enlightenment, progress and democratic stability? This is perhaps a challenge which can only be given by an Arab Moslim to those who have not been raised in close contact with that culture. Clearly and emphatically she remonstrates that Islam is unworthy of being held high as a valid doctrine for mankind and should not be put on an equal footing with other world religions. “Our Muslim societies are governed by a religious law that imposes itself by force and relies on fear as a means of perpetuating and protecting itself. Islam, as I have already emphasized, was born in an arid and desolate environment where people had to struggle to survive. It adopted the customs of that environment and that era, absorbed them, and then refused to allow them to change with the times.” (pp 204-5)
This book can be an eye opener to the uneducated and naïve about the depths of Islamism’s depravities and it reveals numerous detestable literary citations. However, everything is not as monochromatic in this world as Sultan presents it. There are millions of “reformed” and peace-loving Moslims and I know some of them. For example, the Shia Ismailis, residing in nearly thirty countries, allow several layers of meaning in interpreting the Koran which offer nuances that are adaptable to modern times. An excerpt from the [...] website: “Bridge-building between cultures and religions through dialogue and cooperation is an important means to promote a peaceful and humanistic society. In September, the Ismaili Centre, Lisbon played host to a lecture that was part of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Summer School programme.”
In order to claim validity for our age religions must show themselves to be living organisms willing to make progressive steps both in the spiritual as well as the material realms. Those religious branches and individuals who hold to outmoded doctrines—especially the fear-mongering and violent ones—will sadly continue to be part of the problem, not the solution.
It's the story of the author, her life experiences in Islam; about how women are regarded and treated by the men of this "religion of peace", so-called. What I don't understand is why feminism hasn't gotten on this issue like white on rice, to condemn the practices of Islam and the oppression their Muslim sisters?!?!
Feminism defends Muslim women's "right" to wear the hijab, the niqab and the burqa--which forces Muslim women to live in virtual tents--while not recognizing these as tools of oppression against Muslim women by Muslim men. Feminism doesn't seem to be able to see that these practices infantilize women. The author of this splendid book shows how these and other practices, degrade the women of Islam.
Not all Muslim men force their wives and daughters to wear those, but even those women who wear them by choice have been conditioned to think they are "honouring Allah" by wearing those, when in fact these articles of clothing are nothing more than tools of oppression and are a social, rather than a religious practice. One would be hard put to find anything about these practices in the Qur'an; read it for yourselves in see.
The author exposes these practices, despite being threatened by Muslims for speaking out. She is a courageous woman whose book I hope will make a deep mark in Islam; not to mention the bleeding hearts & feminists who are so short-sighted they can't even see that many Muslim women in our western countries do not enjoy the same freedoms they do. This is a book well worth reading and well worth passing on; would that there were many more women like Wafa Sultana, exposing the hypocrisy of Islam.
Nothing clouds the mind like religion.
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