A Muslim female psychologist, Wafa Sultan from Los Angeles interviewed in
Al Jazeera TV on 21 February 2006.
¡°The crash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of
religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two
opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that
belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belong to the 21st
century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness; between
the civilized and the primitive; between barbarity and rationality. It
is a crash between freedom and oppression; between democracy and
dictatorship. It is a clash between human right on the one hand, and
the violation of those rights, on the other hand. It is a clash between
those who treated women like beasts, and those who treat them like human
beings.¡±
¡°What we see today is not a clash between civilizations. Civilisations
do not clash but compete.¡±
A commentator asked, ¡°I understand from your words that what is
happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the
backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims.¡±
She replied. ¡°Yes, that is what I mean¡±.
Commentator: ¡°Who come up with the concept of a clash of civilizations?
Was it not Samuel Huntington? It was not Bin Laden. I would like to
discuss this issue, if you do not mind¡-.¡±
She replied, ¡°The Muslims are the ones that began using this
expression. The Muslims are the ones that began the clash of
civilizations. The Prophet of Islam said, ¡°I was ordered to fight the
people until they believe in Allah and his Messenger.¡± When the Muslims
divided the people into Muslims and Non-Muslims, and called to fight the
others until they believe in what they themselves believe. They started
this clash and began this war. In order to stop this war, they must
re-examine their Islamic books and curricula, which are full of calls for
takfir and fighting the infidels. My colleague had said that he never
offends of other people¡¯s beliefs, what civilization on the face of
this earth allows him to call others by names they did not choose for
themselves. Once he calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma. Another time he calls
them ¡°the people of the Book¡±. And yet another time he compares them
to apes and pigs. Or he calls the Christians ¡°those who incur
Allah¡¯s wrath. Who told you they are ¡°people of the Book¡±? They are
not ¡°people of the Book¡±, they are people of many books. All the useful
scientific books today are theirs, the fruits of their free and creative
thinking. What gives you the right to call them ¡°those who incur
Allah/s Wrath,¡± or ¡°those who have gone astray,¡± and then come here to
say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the beliefs
of others?
I am not a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew. I am a secular human being.
I do not believe in the supernatural, but I respect others¡± right to
believe in it.
Another commentator asked, ¡°Are you a heretic?¡±
She replied, ¡°You can say whatever you like. I am a secular human
being that does not believe in the supernatural.¡±
The commentator said: If you are a heretic, there is no point in
rebuking you, since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet, and
the Koran¡-
She interjected: ¡°These are personal matters that do not concern you.
Brother, you can believe in stone, as long as you do not throw them at
me. You are free to worship whomever you want, but others¡¯ belief is
not your concern, whether they believe the Messiah is God, son of Mary,
or that Satan is the son of God or Mary. Let people have their beliefs.
The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and force the
world to respect them, with their work, not their crying and yelling,
Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th
centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 millions people, scattered throughout
the world, united and won the right through work and knowledge. You have
not seen a Jew blow himself in a German restaurant. We have seen a
single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew who protests
by killing people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into
rubble. We have not seen a Buddhist burn down a
Mosque, kill a Muslim or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend
their belief by burning down churches, killing people and destroy
embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask
themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that the
humankind to respect them.¡±
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