2 posts tagged “criticism”

Wafa Sultan is a psychologist.  An Arab born and raised woman who has rejected Allah and has come into the knowledge of his prophet's murderous ways.  Its all well and good that you come to know the truth about people in your life, but it is known as backbiting and gossip to go discussing those faults with anyone other than the person with whom you have found fault.

Dr. Sultan goes on al-Jezeera TV and makes her case with the religious authorities of the land.  Her criticism is against their religion, their government, and their proponents.  I have transcribed the entire video for your perusal.  

Quote:  When I examined the Koran, the hadiths, and the Islamic books under my microscope, I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible - impossible! - for any human being to read the biography of Muhammad and believe in it, and yet emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.  Do you remember the way that (the prophet Muhammad) killed 'Asmaa bint Marwan?  His followers tore her body apart limb from limb, while she was breastfeeding her child.  When they returned to him shouting "Allah Akbar," he said; "No two goats would lock horns over her."  As you know, goats lock horns over the most inconsequential thing.  For Muhammad, however, the killing of a woman while breastfeeding was too trivial an incident for goats "to lock horns over."  Is this a prophet of God?  It makes me very sad that al-Jazeera TV allows an insane and terroristic creature like al-Qaradhawi to use it as a medium for the spreading of his poisons, his terroristic fatwas, and his babbling.  The words he used against me incited many young Muslims who have been brainwashed and blindfolded and who have programmed to hate, to rain curses and threats upon me, right after the show in which he discussed my appearance on al-Jazeera TV.  When Islam considers women to be deficient in reason, and I refute this assertion - in that case Islam attacks me, and I am merely attacking back.  When Islam calls to kill whoever does not believe in it and I refute this, in that case Islam attacks me, and I am merely attacking back.    I do not attack Islam, I criticize it, but unfortunately, we the victims of Islamic upbringing, view any criticism as an attack.  I always focus on the language - the language of Islam.  The language of Islam is a negative, dead language, replete with violence, anger, hatred and racism.    Man is the product of language, the outcome of the negative and positive language to which he is exposed in his lifetime.  If his life is dominated by negative language, he will emerge as a negative, reckless, and non-productive person, who rejects everything.  On the other hand, if positive language dominates his life, he will emerge as a positive, happy, and productive person.  This is why the negative language of Islam has failed.  It has failed to produce people with a spontanious and positive outlook.  It has produced negative people.  If we take a look at Islamic societies, we see what that negative man did.  I do not view Islam as a religion - according to my notion of religion.  Islam is a political doctrine, which imposes itself by force.  Any doctrine whatsoever that calls to kill those who do not believe in it is not a religion.  It is a totalitarian doctrine that imposes itself by force.  When I read, for example, the verse:  "The adulterer and the adulteress - flog each of them with a hundred stripes, and do not let compassion for them move you."  I do not discern any spirituality in this verse.  When a certain faith manages to strip its believers of their last grain of compassion, it strips them of their spirituality as well.  Jesus Christ is the symbol of peace.  He did not carry a sword, chop off heads, or accuse anyone of heresy.  The problem in Islam is that if we were to act similarly to the Christians of the Middle ages, and were to model our lives after the life, actions, and words of Muhammad, we would find ourselves in an even bigger mess than the one we are in, and we would end up with Osama bin Laden and his ilk.  Read about the life of Muhammad.  What do you find there?  Nothing but his raids and his wives, in addition to his hadiths, some of which make you shudder.  I shudder when I hear the hadith:  "A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot."  The Islamic teachings have become dreadful in the skulls of the Muslims.  I see no alternative but to open up these skulls, and to clean the life-threatening cancerous cells in these brains.  When the Syrian people swarmed the Danish embassy and burned it down, it burned my heart too.  Why?  The Syrian people is dying of hunger.  The Syrians, despite their (ancient) civilization, chase after their daily bread.  Why don't they swarm the palace of their president, who has 40 billion dollars in European bank accounts, and burn down the palace, along with its occupant?  They swarmed the Danish embassy giving the West the wrong image of the moral and civilized Syrian people.  Therefore, I describe their conduct as barbaric and backward.  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a religious conflict.  I support the Palestinian cause.  I support the Palestinian children.  I lose sleep over the suffering of Palestinian women.  I cannot even step on an ant, so how could I possibly be against them?  This is inconceivable.  This is a political conflict, and they should ask their leaders about what they have done to resolve this problem.  But the problem is rooted in religion.  A week or two ago, I read a short story in an Islamic book, according to which Muhammad was walking with some of his followers when they heard a commotion.  They asked him:  "What is this, Messenger of Allah?"  He said:  "These are the Jews being tormented in the grave."   Regardless of the conflicts Muhammad had with the Jews back then, this statement indicates that the graves of their ancestors were in Saudi Arabia, correct?  -Yes.  They are people of this region as is evident from the Islamic books and the Koran itself.  The problem with the Muslims is that they do not distinguish between their prophet and their own noses.  When you criticize Muhammad, his actions, and his life, it is as if you chopped off their noses. 

Dr. Sultan is risking her life to speak the truth to the very people she is criticizing.  So it should be with you, if you are an honorable person, that you would take your criticism to the person you have complaint against.  If you they will not listen, the Bible says that you should then bring a brother, that is to say somebody you both trust and respect.  If they still will not listen, then you are to take the matter to the elders in your church and hopefully your pastor will come with you to speak your complaint.  In a secular format, this advice still applies.  You find somebody you can both respect and have them come with you to speak to this person and if they still will not listen, then who do you go to?  The police?  Maybe you can go on TV?  Again, there is real value in having a religious group with whom you can appeal your case.

It is true that I disapprove of abortion.  I know that this practice kills more than one million babies every year.  I know

that those who founded its biggest provider were and are racist and sexist.  I know that it harms minority communities the most and that it leaves a deep pain in the mothers of those lost children.  But I don't take my disapproval and go around beating and killing either those who perform them nor those who receive them.  That is what would demonstrate hate.  My faith instructs me to invite them to join me in this faith so they can learn to value life the way I have learned to.

It is true that I disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle.  I know that this behavior is self destructive and millions of people suffer damage and disease to their bodies in its practice.  I know that the gay lobby in America is pushing its acceptance into every corner of our culture including our schools' kindergartens.  I know that this push is making our children's gender identity malleable and perverting their innocent psyches before they are ready for knowledge of such things.  I don't take that disapproval and go around beating and killing homosexuals.  That is what would demonstrate hate.  My faith instructs me to invite them to join me in this faith so they can learn that this behavior is harmful to our society as well as to themselves.

It is true that I disapprove of the religion of Islam.  I know that this religion has not been hijacked, that it practices the concept of justifiable deception, and that it requires its followers to institute world wide Sharia Law.  The same law that requires unequal treatment of women, blacks, and unbelievers.  I don't take that disapproval and go around beating and killing Muslims.  That is what would demonstrate hate.  My faith instructs me to invite them to join me in my faith so they can learn the source of real peace rather than Islam's brand of violent domination and overthrow of differing faiths and governance.

It is true that I disapprove of socialism.  I know that this is the stepping stone toward Communism, Maoism, and basic despotism including regimes like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Polpot, and countless others.  I have studied a little history and seen that the end of this ideology of building a utopia on earth is always, always the last step before re-education camps, Gulags, genocides, and so-called freedom wars against free and successful societies.  I don't take that disapproval and go around beating and killing socialists.  That is what demonstrates hatred.  My faith instructs me to invite socialists to join me in this faith so they can learn that people are inherently evil and must fight their own natures so they can live together in peace.

Hatred is not demonstrated in critical speech just because the speech is critical.  Hatred is demonstrated in speech and actions that intend harm.  Actions like keying cars, stealing burning or otherwise destroying political yard signs spray painting threats onto a candidates garage door firebombing a billboard or any of a hundred other examples is a form of intimidation.  Actions which intimidate others for their views is an abuse of their right to freedom of speech.  Hatred is demonstrated in speech which is intended to intimidate as well.  Do not confuse hatred with an opposing view on what's good for our culture and society.  Do not equate criticism with hatred.