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.
Obras de Wafa Sultan
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1958-06-14
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA (naturalized)
- Local de nascimento
- Syria
- Locais de residência
- Biniyas, Syria
Aleppo, Syria
Los Angeles, California, USA - Educação
- Aleppo University (MD)
- Ocupação
- psychiatrist
- Premiações
- 100 Most Influential People in the World (2006)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 115
- Popularidade
- #170,830
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 5
- Idiomas
- 1
Born to Muslim parents in Syria, raised in the Mohammedan religion, she became an agnostic after seeing the atrocities committed against Syrians by the so-called Muslim Brotherhood. After many attempts, she and her immediate family managed to emigrate to America in 1989. Following 9/11 (exactly twenty years prior to the writing of this review), she began speaking out against Mohammedanism and its "god," giving her book its title. Her appearances on CNN and Al Jazeera made her an international sensation, and provoked an immediate "fatwa" from the Mohammedan authorities — a curse which she expected, and which bothered her not at all.
In this book, she devotes chapters to the persecution of women in Mohammedan countries, which is perhaps her primary concern. But she also includes a chapter on the psychological and social burdens placed on men by belief in the Quran. She writes at length about the dreadful "socialization" of children, and the utter and complete exclusivity of Islam, a "religion" more intolerant and deadly than any seen on earth since the pagan cults of Old Testament times.
This is a lot of ground to cover in 244 pages, but she does it, clearly and expertly. A secularist and a psychiatrist, Dr. Sultan is not attempting to convert people to Christianity or any other faith. She is drawing a bright line between two things that are utterly incompatible: Islam and civilization.
Very highly recommended.… (mais)