This is a great book written by an unusual woman who broke free of the destructive, paralyzing influence of Islam. It is strange that she was able to do this in that most Muslims that go to the West to enjoy the benefits of living in a free society, freer than what they experienced under Islamic society, but still are not able to shake the brainwashing that they received while living under Islamic influence. The men almost never do and it is strange that the women do not flee this oppressive cult more than they do because they are the most abused women in the world, as this book makes clear to the reader. I was almost nauseated when I read this in the book on page 139: "Can you imagine how enslaved a woman must be if she believes this hadith from her Prophet: "A man has a right to expect his wife, if his nose runs with blood, or mucus or pus, to lick it up with her tongue."
Wafa Sultan, after fleeing this destructive society, where in spite of it and its attitude towards woman, was able to become educated to become a medical doctor and eventually became a psychiatrist. I would imagine that this incident that she recounts in her book had a real profound effect on her and her desire to leave this cult so unshakablely rooted in the barbaric society that spawned it 1,400 years ago.
"When I was a fourth-year medical student, at the bus stop one day near the hospital where I was doing my training, I saw two small boys aged about six and eight. Each boy had a small bird in his hand and was plucking out its feathers. The birds were cheeping with pain and struggling to escape. The sight upset me and I went over to the boys and said gently, "Boys, you mustn't do that. Please stop it." The elder boy fixed me with a piercing stare that seemed to penetrate every cell of my body and said vehemently, "There's nothing wrong with plucking a bird. What is wrong is that a woman like you should be walking around off the leash in mixed company without a head covering. Go and bury yourself at home!" [149-150]
If children that are 6 or 8 years old think that at that age they have the right to be so disrespectful of an accomplished woman, just what will there attitude be when they are grown up? This doesn't even address the attitude that they have the right to torture some poor birds just for fun. That reminds me of a prelude to a chapter that I read in one of Michener's books "The Drifters": Boys were killing frogs in jest but the frogs were dying in earnest.
It is obvious that Islam has no respect for woman and it would not be a surprise at how they are treated. I read the book
"Daughters of Arabia" by Jean Sasson about how women are treated in Saudi Arabia where even today they are not able to go out alone or drive or the religious police will have them in custody. It can be no fun for them to have to go around wearing a black tent with only eye slits to expose their skin. Could this have something to do with keeping covered the results of terrible beatings that the man of their lives inflict up on them? In Pakistan, if a man is angry at a woman he can throw acid in her face and thinks that is his right. Even in the U. S., believers in this cult think that honor killing is the right of the male members of the family.
Everything in Islam is for the benefit of the man as exemplified by their "perfect man" when he got the hot's for his own
daughter-in-law, whose unveiled beauty he managed to see when wind lifted the curtain where she was dressing,(sounds like the common Peeping Tom to me) and desired her for himself. Zeid, his adopted son, whose wife, Zeinab, he had been peeping in on told Zeid that "The Prophet" had seen her undressed (just by accident, I'm sure) and at once desired her so the kid said, "well then take her", but I guess did not say, "you dirty old man" and that is all he was. Anyway, Muhammad even had to do some quick thinking to justify this action and had to call upon Allah to sanctify it for him because all knew that it was wrong and that is the case that Wafa Sultan makes throughout the book about Islam.
The account can be read in Sura 33: The Clans, 3.37, thus: 37. "And when thou saidst unto him on whom Allah hath conferred favour and thou hast conferred favour: Keep thy wife to thyself, and fear Allah. And thou didst hide in thy mind that which Allah was to bring to light, and thou didst fear mankind whereas Allah hath a better right that thou shouldst fear Him. So when Zeyd had performed the necessary formality (of divorce) from her, We gave her unto thee in marriage, so that (henceforth) there may be no sin for believers in respect of wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have performed the necessary formality (of release) from them. The commandment of Allah must be fulfilled.
How could anyone with a brain and sense of right and wrong believe in this cult and it's prophet and that is the point that Wafa Sultan presents throughout this great book? If Muslim women are treated this way in Islamic countries, then imagine how non-Muslim women are treated.
"Sentenced to death for a sip of water"
"As her religion faces persecution across the Middle East, a Christian woman explains why she faces hanging in Pakistan for the crime of `blasphemy'"
[...]"I want the whole world to know that I'm going to be hanged for helping my neighbor. I'm guilty of having shown someone sympathy. What did I do wrong? I drank water from a well belonging to Muslim women, using "their" cup, in the burning heat of the midday sun.
I, Asia Bibi, have been sentenced to death because I was thirsty. I'm a prisoner because I used the same cup as those Muslim women, because water served by a Christian woman was regarded as unclean by my stupid fellow fruit-pickers."
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Also get an update here on this "religion of peace".
Woman drinks water from a Muslim's cup ... death sentence. Posted on 26 August 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
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This incident regarding modern day Islam is far different that the one with Jesus and the Samaritan woman who comes to the well and Jesus asks her for a drink.
If you want a view of how ignorant people who have been sheltered by the West think about this book read G. Adams' take on this book and my replies to his ignorant statements where his lead into his stupid review is;
"An unfortunate book" and it is given one star. Given the comments produced, I have my doubts that they even read the book and if they did, are so closed minded so as not to understand anything about the points that the author made so well in her well thought out book that is grounded in the experiences she had for the first 32 years of her life while living under this cult's curse. It is a book that should be read now because of what is now happening in Syria and that is a direct result of Islamic forces to numerous to mention here.
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