A provocative interview on Al Jazeera has turned Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist, into a
“I have no choice. I am questioning every single teaching of our holy book.”
- DR. WAFA SULTAN
The Saturday Profile
A provocative interview on Al Jazeera has turned Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist, into an international sensation
For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats
LOS ANGELES, March 10 — Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.
Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die.
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.
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