If any person dared to bash Christianity or Judaism the same way, that person would rightly be written off as a lunatic fringe. The only reason Wafa Sultan is taken seriously by anyone is that she primarily bashes Muslims.
A blatant lie. There are posters on this forum who attack Christians daily. Of course, this reply is pointless. Maned already has you pegged. Why don't you go funnel some more money to Hamas?
As an aside, thanks for remembering her name. Wafa Sultan. I will have to remember that. She deserves to be remembered.
Oh, and your other, just as blatant lie?
Not only is there no fatwa-a-go-go against her, she's made a ton of cash off these rants. She lives in LA, where not only is it perfectly safe to bash Islam and Muslims, it's actually quite profitable for a few...like herself.
While I do not normally like the NYT, even they acknowledge the truth. (Also, they go out of there way to be nice to Islam in this piece. Of course, you will find it one-sided, and anti-Islam anyway...)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/11/international/middleeast/11sultan.htmlFrom the second paragraph:
Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die.
You say she is safe in LA. I say hardly. California has crappy gun laws, she probably cannot carry. She has Muslims out to kill her. Is that your definition of perfectly safe?
No fatwa you say? (For those who do not know what a fatwa is, here is a link straight to the definition:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fatwa )
Back to the NYT article. You say there is no fatwa against her, when clearly there is. From the second page, 10th and 11th paragraphs:
The other guest on the program, identified as an Egyptian professor of religious studies, Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouli, asked, "Are you a heretic?" He then said there was no point in rebuking or debating her, because she had blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and the Koran.
Dr. Sultan said she took those words as a formal fatwa, a religious condemnation. Since then, she said, she has received numerous death threats on her answering machine and by e-mail.
She is correct. Right there on TV, she had a fatwa issued to her.
SS, how does the Kool-Aid taste?