Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Wafa Sultan: An Arab's opinion of Islam (different point of view)




Translation by my friend, Baron:

The Woman:
Conflict that we see here and all over the world, is not the clash between religions, and not a clash of cultures. This is a clash between two opposites, a clash between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages, and another mentality that belongs to the twenty-first century. It is a clash between culture and backwardness, between the civilized, and primitive. between barbarity and rationality. This is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights from one side, and the violation of rights from another side. It is a clash  
And among those that refer to her as a human being. What's that we see today, this is not a clash of cultures. Cultures do not conflict. Cultures are competing. between referring a woman - as if she were a wild animal,

The interviewer
From what you say I understand that what that's going on today, this clash between western civilization and backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?
 
The WomanYes, that's my intent.

The interviewer: Who came up with the idea of a clash of cultures? This is not Samuel huntigton ? It was not Bin Laden. I'd like that would address this, mind you.

The woman: the Muslims are beginning to use this expression. The Muslims say that the clashes began between the two cultures.

 "I ordered to fight in people until they believe in Allah and his messenger." In the moment that the Muslims divided the people, between Muslims and non-Muslims, and called to fight in others, until they will be like them,  they started the conflict, in that they started this war.   In order to stop this war, they must re-examine the books of Islam and their curricula. filled in calls to "Tkper" and fighting on infidels. My colleague says he will not ever hurt the faith of others.
A culture in our world allows him to call other people names, that they did not choose for themselves? In one place, he calls them, "a tent to the Duma." Elsewhere he calls them "people with a culture book." And again in another place, he compares them to apes and pigs. Or, that he calls for Christians, "those that annoy Allah." Who told you that  the Muslims, are "people of the book"?. They (the Muslims) are not "people of the book." They are people of many books. All benefit books, science books, that is in your hands now, are their books, the result of free thinking and their creator. From where you have the right, to call them "the annoying ones to Allah." Or "wrong", then, come here and say that your religion commands you to refrain from harming others in religion.? I'm not Muslim or Christian, or Jewish. I am a secular human being. I do not believe in the supernatural, but I respect the rights of others, to believe it

Muslim clericSo you're an infidel?

The WomanYou can call it whatever that you want.

Muslim cleric: I'm asking you.

The womanI'm a secular person and do not believe in the supernatural.

Muslim cleric: If you are a heretic, there is no benefit in trying to convince you that violated Islam, the prophet and the Koran

The woman: These are personal things, that is not from your business. Dude, you can - believe - even in stones, as long that you do not throw it at
me. You are free to worship a person who you like, but other's faith, it's not your business, whether they believe, that the messiah is God or son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people live their faith. Jews, out of a tragedy of the Holocaust, 
and forced the world to respect them, because of their knowledge, not through their terror. , Through their toil and their not shout. Humanity owes, the majority of the discoveries of the nineteenth century and the twentieth, and educated Jews. Fifteen million Jews living in the world. (The number of Jews is less than that.). Unite and achieve their rights through work and knowledge. And has never exploded a Jew, nor against a German restaurant.   I have never  seen a Jew destroying a church.
 We have never seen a Jew protests, through the killing of people. The Muslims blown to pieces, three statues of Buddha. Reno never Buddhist, burning a mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn an embassy building. Only Muslims defend their religion by burning churches, killing people and burning embassies. This way, not bring them to any results. Muslims ask themselves: "What in their ability to do for all humanity", before they demand that humankind respect them.
Note:  For more information on the "woman" in video, please see: Wafa Sultan