Powerful clip -- partial transcript and historical note

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Here is the transcript of the heavily edited video clip interview

with Wafa Sultan

 

http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1050.htm

 

February 21, 2006 Clip No. 1050

 

Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan: There is No Clash of

Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages

and That of the 21st Century

 

Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American

psychiatrist Wafa Sultan. The interview was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on

February 21, 2006

 

..

Wafa Sultan: The clash 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

belongs 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 clash between freedom and

oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between

human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on

other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts,

and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not

a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.

 

[...]

 

Host: 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?

 

Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.

 

[...]

 

Host: Who came 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 don't mind...

 

Wafa Sultan: The Muslims are the ones who began using this

expression. The Muslims are the ones who 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 reexamine their Islamic books and curricula,

which are full of calls for takfir and fighting the infidels.

 

My colleague has said that he never offends other people's beliefs.

What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other

people by names that 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

that they are " People of the Book " ? They are not the People of the

Book, they are people of many books. All the useful scientific books

that you have today are theirs, the fruit 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

and 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.

 

Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: Are you a heretic?

 

Wafa Sultan: You can say whatever you like. I am a secular human

being who does not believe in the supernatural...

 

Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: If you are a heretic, there is no point in

rebuking you, since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet,

and the Koran...

 

Wafa Sultan: These are personal matters that do not concern you.

 

[...]

 

Wafa Sultan: Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't

throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other

people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the

Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let

people have their beliefs.

 

[...]

 

Wafa Sultan: The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust),

and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with

their terror, 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 million people, scattered

throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and

knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German

restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have

not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have

turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single

Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy.

Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches,

killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield

any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for

humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

 

The complete transcript is available at this link

 

http://aqoul.com/images/wafa_sultan.pdf

 

It is indeed a powerful interview and video and one can only wish

that a great many Muslims would see the light in regards to terrorism

and intolerance and barbarism.

 

However, I must point out for the sake of accuracy, that it was

actually the Zionists who introduuced acts of terrorism to the middle

east, and that, though largely covered up in the western media they

control, these same Zionists and their descendents continue to commit

acts of terrorism and atrocities in the middle east against the Arabs.

 

These Zionist terrorists, whose leaders came on to be the present day

leaders of Israel, appear to actually have desended from Khazaria a

mostly forgotten but very powerful ancient nation that converted in

mass to Judaism in the 8th century AD to avoid influence from the

Roman Christians on the west and the Muslim Arabs on the east.

 

When Khazaria finally fell to the Mongol horde, the people were

driven east and came to settle in what is now Poland, Russia and the

Balkans and are believed to make up the vast majority of the world

Jewish population

 

This history is detailed in the book " The Thirteenth Tribe " by Jewish

author Author Koestler.

 

http://www.churchoftrueisrael.com/13th-tribe/

http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/01/02/specials/koestler-

tribe.html

http://fantompowa.net/Flame/koestlerindex.htm (where you can download

a .pdf file of the entire book for free)

 

In no way should these historical facts detract from the bravery of

the woman in the interview, nor the correctness of her condemnation

of Muslim barbarism and intolerance.

 

Perhaps, however, an unvarnished look at the historical background

may provide food for thought as to why the Arabs are less than happy

over having their homelands taken away and given to people who did

not have the same birthright claim they have and the way the uprooted

Palestinian people have been harshly oppressed and treated since the

establishment of the Zionist state.

 

 

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> I appologize that the link did not make it the first post. It came

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head. I also have no doubt it won't be on the air long.

>

> She is one impressive woman. Here is a powerful

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> Pretty powerful stuff this woman says!!!!!!

>

> Tell em sista!! This is worth watching. I have never seen

anything like

> this.

>

> It is extremely surprising that the Arab financed

TV in

> Dubai would allow this to air. Be sure and watch this, it is so

powerful I have

> no doubt she now has a very large price on her head. I also have

no doubt

> it won't be on the air long.

>

> She is one impressive woman. Here is a powerful

and amazing

> statement on Al Jereeza television. The woman is Wafa Sultan, an

> Arab-American psychologist from Los Angeles. I would suggest

watching it ASAP because

> I don't know how long the link will be active. This film clip

should be

> shown around the world repeatedly!

>

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