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Even the NYTs Can No Longer Ignore Wafa Sultan!

April 4th, 2006 at 07:51 by MsUnderestimated

“I have no choice. I am questioning every single teaching of our holy book.”
- DR. WAFA SULTAN

Can you guys believe this? Remember the videos of Wafa Sultan, the Arab-American psychologist who slammed those Muslim men on Al Jazeera TV, telling them they were nothing short of barbarians? Well, the New York Times published a story about her in their March 10th edition. I may be behind the curve on this particular article, but it wasn’t something that was predominantly featured in the MSM now, was it? In fact, because of the earth-shattering content of this article, wouldn’t you have thought Nightline or Dateline would have done a major story on this woman? *sigh*.. I know the answer to my own rhetorical question.

If this article is a repeat for anyone - sorry. But if it’s not; what a DAMN good read!

Anyway, I LOVE this woman, and I’ve written about her twice in the past, posting links to her videos. This woman is a force to be reckoned with! And according to this story, she’s working on a book. She’s SICK of the way the Islamofascists are getting away with murder literally, and saying it’s all done in the name of Allah. Of course, she’s gotten the death threats, but who gives a damn? She’s in America now, and I myself, would do whatever it took to protect her!

Here’s a portion of the NYT’s article:

In the interview, which has been viewed on the Internet more than a million times and has reached the e-mail of hundreds of thousands around the world, Dr. Sultan bitterly criticized the Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries.

She said the world’s Muslims, whom she compares unfavorably with the Jews, have descended into a vortex of self-pity and violence.

Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and barbarism, a battle that the forces of violent, reactionary Islam are destined to lose.

In response, clerics throughout the Muslim world have condemned her, and her telephone answering machine has filled with dark threats. But Islamic reformers have praised her for saying out loud, in Arabic and on the most widely seen television network in the Arab world, what few Muslims dare to say even in private.

“I believe our people are hostages to our own beliefs and teachings,” she said in an interview this week in her home in a Los Angeles suburb.

Dr. Sultan, who is 47, wears a prim sweater and skirt, with fleece-lined slippers and heavy stockings. Her eyes and hair are jet black and her modest manner belies her intense words: “Knowledge has released me from this backward thinking. Somebody has to help free the Muslim people from these wrong beliefs.”

Perhaps her most provocative words on Al Jazeera were those comparing how the Jews and Muslims have reacted to adversity. Speaking of the Holocaust, she said, “The Jews have come from the tragedy and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling.”

She went on, “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.”

She concluded, “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.” (TELL IT, WAFA!)

Her views caught the ear of the American Jewish Congress, which has invited her to speak in May at a conference in Israel. “We have been discussing with her the importance of her message and trying to devise the right venue for her to address Jewish leaders,” said Neil B. Goldstein, executive director of the organization.

She is probably more welcome in Tel Aviv than she would be in Damascus. Shortly after the broadcast, clerics in Syria denounced her as an infidel. One said she had done Islam more damage than the Danish cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad, a wire service reported.

DR. SULTAN is “working on a book that — if it is published — it’s going to turn the Islamic world upside down.”

“I have reached the point that doesn’t allow any U-turn. I have no choice. I am questioning every single teaching of our holy book.”

The working title is, “The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a Monster.”

Dr. Sultan grew up in a large traditional Muslim family in Banias, Syria, a small city on the Mediterranean about a two-hour drive north of Beirut. Her father was a grain trader and a devout Muslim, and she followed the faith’s strictures into adulthood.

But, she said, her life changed in 1979 when she was a medical student at the University of Aleppo, in northern Syria. At that time, the radical Muslim Brotherhood was using terrorism to try to undermine the government of President Hafez al-Assad. Gunmen of the Muslim Brotherhood burst into a classroom at the university and killed her professor as she watched, she said.

“They shot hundreds of bullets into him, shouting, ‘God is great!’ ” she said. “At that point, I lost my trust in their god and began to question all our teachings. It was the turning point of my life, and it has led me to this present point. I had to leave. I had to look for another god.”

GEEZ, I love this woman! She is TRULY FEARLESS in the face of those who would just as soon see her dead! We need more like her! And can you believe the NYTs reported on it? I know…. I’m still in shock, too!

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Mexico’s Immigration Policy Hypocricy

April 4th, 2006 at 06:10 by MsUnderestimated

I think we’ve all seen that email circulating around the internet about one of us attempting to illegally enter into Mexico and demand that Vicente Fox and his crew provide us with English-speaking doctors, recognizing our rights, etc. It got me to thinking….”I wonder what WOULD really happen if somebody tried to do that? Where does Mexico stand on illegal immigration themselves?”

I was given the answer today in my inbox, from a post by Publius Rendezvous, original h/t to Michelle Malkin who pointed this out early today.

Folks, this bears sharing with everybody. Especially if you find yourselves in the middle of discussions (or arguments) as were myself and Justin H. from Right On the Right just this past Saturday on a “conservative” talk show (which will remain unnamed at this time for reasons Justin and I ourselves know). Heck, even Kender got in with us at the final part of the debate. Well, that’s enough about that for now. Let’s get back to the discussion at hand.

So, what ARE Mexico’s policies and laws on illegal immigrants, and what rights would Fox’s country grant to those who chose to go over there un-invited? Let’s see…. I believe the Center for Security Policy has some information on that, so let’s take a look at a portion of that document called “Mexico’s Glass House” for a bit of group self-edification:

Pursuant to Article 33, “Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” This ban applies, among other things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days.
Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: “Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.”
Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered “indispensable” include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.
Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be “a Mexican citizen by birth.” Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.
In accordance with Article 130, immigrants - even legal ones - may not become members of the clergy, either.
Foreigners, to say nothing of illegal immigrants, are denied fundamental property rights. For example, Article 27 states, “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters.”
Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.” What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen’s arrests. Article 16 states, “In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.” In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution. Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right!
The Mexican constitution states that foreigners - not just illegal immigrants - may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”

Chew on THAT for a while! This has given me new ammo to carry with me in the future, should… I mean WHEN I will most certainly need it. Apparenty they have a “do as I say, not as I do” attitude toward immigration and the sovereignty of their country. Kinda hypocritical, don’cha think?

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