Other Sellers on Amazon
FREE Shipping
100% positive
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Learn more
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
A God Who Hates Paperback – April 26, 2011
| Wafa Sultan (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
| Price | New from | Used from |
Enhance your purchase
“Wafa Sultan paints a scorching, unforgettable portrait of Syrian Muslim society, especially the degradation of its women, and lyrically appreciates her adopted American homeland . . . 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
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.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
- Publication dateApril 26, 2011
- Dimensions5.57 x 0.69 x 8.21 inches
- ISBN-100312538367
- ISBN-13978-0312538361
Customers who bought this item also bought
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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.
Product details
- Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (April 26, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0312538367
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312538361
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.57 x 0.69 x 8.21 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,434,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #276 in Women in Islam (Books)
- #14,918 in Women's Biographies
- Customer Reviews:
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.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonReviewed in the United States on October 17, 2009
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
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."
[...]
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
[...]
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.
<http://www.amazon.com/review/RQWL909LCMXR5/ref=cm_cr_rev_detup_redir?_encoding=UTF8&asin=0312538359&cdForum=FxTED23W5JSG1B&cdPage=8&cdThread=Tx385S72VYF7RKH&newContentID=Mx3V4FT4XH0R3LO&newContentNum=80&store=books#Mx37BTGC30RCIJH>
We have had honor killings in our country and the same has been experienced in other countries with a significant Muslim influx of people. Having been in law enforcement and now in behavioral health, I have had dealings with practitioners of Islam and found myself frustrated that what we see as criminal acts (such as rape, sexual assault, incest, murder, etc.) are seen as justifiable by the Muslim perpetrators who find our response confusing, irrational, and ungodly. I have had numerous female patients who are being routinely molested by their fathers and other male relatives and have been shocked by the attitudes of mothers who have no empathy for the plight of their daughters, dismissing them as "prostitutes" and blame them for the actions of their male relatives while the girls blame themselves for their own victimization as Mohammed revealed in his teachings that women are defective according to Allah. Dr. Sultan explores the concept that a belief system that relegates women to mere possessions no more human than a man's house, his land, his animals, his material possessions and gives the woman no more say in her treatment and destiny as his material possessions is a culture that is incapable of interacting humanely and empathetically with other cultures and belief systems. She observes that a culture where men are taught not to view women as human beings is a culture where a man is incapable of loving his wife (wives) and a culture where he has to use fear to coerce even respect from her (them) is a culture where men also never know the joy of being loved by a woman and is a culture where children aren't guided and nurtured into loving individuals as their parents are incapable of loving them, too. As Americans, we express shock when a Muslim mother expresses that she rejoices at the death of her child (or children) who was martyred in the name of Allah as we have no concept of the conditions and beliefs that lead to such a disregard for life.
Dr. Sultan writes a candid memoir of her own struggle to assimilate into the American culture she had been taught to loathe and fear, and struggle to overcome the fears and prejudices she had been indoctrinated with in the name of Allah. Her book is not a "I hate Islam and the followers of Islam," but is a book written to foster understanding of Islamic teachings and to explain why followers of Islam seek to destroy Western culture.
Top reviews from other countries
The first part of the book is essentially this story - growing up in an authoritarian and misogynist world, then discovering that the outside world is not the degenerate and racist place that one has always been indoctrinated about. The last third or so of the book is an interesting thesis - based on experience - as to why the Muslim world is so limited and blinkered and authoritarian, and why it inevitably cannot actually meet the real needs of its peoples. You should read the book for the full details.
Wafa Sultan has gone on the achieve some fame/notoriety in televised conflicts with assorted wise men/mad bigots (depending on your point of view...), many of which can be found on Youtube. Brave woman, and an eye-opening book.
It is sad that till this day Muslim did not know they had been manipulated by their so called prophet but not God himself. It is just a cruel system that Muslim created to control and bully its citizens especially their female population. The level of exercising a basic human right for any women is next to zero as I understand it. What a complete barbaric system and belief. I totally can see why the writer expressing her hates towards her God.
The author has now at the two thirds point in the book made it very clear to me the oppressive nature that women live under in the Islamic regime. She also has made it clear how some of those women continue to embrace this concept even when they have moved to a Western Country.
I am beginning to find the book a bit repetitious. However for now I will continue to read it.







