Wafa Sultan was one of the featured speakers at last week’s launch of the Freedom Defense Initiative, which was organized by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. While Dr. Sultan was in Washington, she took part in a panel discussion organized by Former Muslims United and sponsored by the Center for Security Policy.The Washington Times has posted a report about the event, which also featured Nonie Darwish and Amil Imani. FMU has asked me to note two corrections that need to be made in the article below:
- Wafa Sultan is the president of Former Muslims United.
- The right of apostasy pledge was sent to 111 Muslim leaders, not groups.
Panel of former Muslims says U.S. needs to “wake up”; overtolerance could pave the way for shari’a in America- - - - - - - - -
Apostasy killing of former Muslims could become widespread in the United States if the U.S. government and Americans don’t “wake up,” a panel of three former Muslims said on Capitol Hill Thursday.
The talk, hosted by three members of the new civil rights organization Former Muslims United, marked the first public appearance as a self-proclaimed “apostate” of Iranian journalist Amil Imani, president of the group. Imani and the panel’s two other speakers, authors Nonie Darwish and Wafa Sultan, told the audience that ingrained American religious and ethnic tolerance and myths about Islam are combining to gravely threaten the West.
“Shi’a radical Islam and Wahhabism is coming to this country,” Imani said. “There are 6,000 mosques in the United States now. All the money [we] put into gasoline comes back here and is used in the teaching of hate, violence, etc., etc.” in American mosques, he said.
Sultan, who said she regularly gets death threats and emails from people saying they will cut off her fingers and rape her daughters because she left Islam, said it is merely a myth that Islamic terrorists misinterpret ‘true’ Islam for nefarious purposes.
Westerners “don’t want to judge anybody based on their [religion],” Sultan said, “[But] Islam is not a religion. Islam is a very dangerous political ideology…. There is no such thing as radical Islam and regular Islam or spiritual Islam….There is only one Islam.”
In the fall of 2009 FMU sent a pledge to 111 Muslim organizations in the United States affirming the right of Muslims to leave Islam and not be punished or killed. (Shari’a, Muslim law, calls on Muslims to kill those who convert or otherwise leave the faith.) The document asked recipients to sign and return the pledge to FMU. Just two groups did.
The response is proof of a silent, creeping tolerance in the West for radical ideology, a development that augurs very badly for a free society, panel members said.“You might think the threat is over there in the Middle East,” said Darwish, author of “Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror.” “The problem is, we have books in America teaching that apostates must be killed…. The problems emanate from Muslim leadership in America. They won’t sign any document that says, ‘We are against shari’a.’“
Western governments seem oblivious to the apathy of supposedly legitimate organizations about apostasy killings and the growing ubiquity of fatwa (death warrant) issuances, the panel said.
“A fatwa of death can be issued from any country,” Darwish said, citing the 2008 handing down from the Middle East by Al Qaeda of a fatwa on Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders for an “insulting” film Wilders made about the Koran. “Fatwas are issued on Arab T.V. on a regular basis…. And these fatwas are following us right here in America. Why we are sleeping and not making a big deal about that is beyond me.”
Darwish said if free reign for such practices continues, they “will change the culture in America. (They’ve) already changed the culture in Europe.”
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Apostasy killing of former Muslims could become widespread in the United States if the U.S. government and Americans don’t “wake up,” a panel of three former Muslims said on Capitol Hill Thursday.
This is a really significant fulcrum with which to lever the whole debate about Islam in America and abroad. If so-called "honor" killings weren't enough to ignite some outrage, such an abject violation of Freedom of Religion ought to be sufficient.
THERE IS NOTHING "CULTURALLY SENSITIVE" ABOUT ALLOWING THE ARBITRARY IMPOSITION OF SUMMARY CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OVER ONE'S CHOICE OF FAITH.
It is MURDER plain and simple. Neither Islam nor any other group has the right to dictate terms of belief to ANYONE against their will.
Westerners “don’t want to judge anybody based on their [religion],” Sultan said, “[But] Islam is not a religion. Islam is a very dangerous political ideology…. There is no such thing as radical Islam and regular Islam or spiritual Islam….There is only one Islam.”.
Count on Wafa Sultan for such refreshing candor about Islam's true nature as a political ideology along with the intrinsic danger it poses to all other cultures and beliefs.
The problems emanate from Muslim leadership in America. They won’t sign any document that says, ‘We are against shari’a.’“
Which is why such refusals need to be understood as promotion of sedition against the American Constitution. Shari'a and liberty are wholly incompatible and Islamic law has no place in a free society.
Why we are sleeping and not making a big deal about that is beyond me.
I would wager it is because America's political leadership has neither the spine nor stomach to finally name the enemy and act accordingly.
As Serge Trifkovic noted so succinctly:
The elite class, rootless, arrogant, cynically manipulative, has every intention of continuing to “fight” the war on terrorism without naming the enemy, without revealing his beliefs, without unmasking his intentions, without offending his accomplices, without expelling his fifth columnists, and without ever daring to win.
It is up to the millions of normal Europeans and their American cousins to stop the madness. The traitor class wants them to share its death wish, to self-annihilate as people with a historical memory and a cultural identity, and to make room for the post-human, monistic Utopia spearheaded by the jihadist fifth column.
This crime can and must be stopped. The founders of the United States overthrew the colonial government for offenses far lighter than those of which the traitor class is guilty. [emphasis added]
Every mosque will be what the Parthenon became when Greece was under Islamic domination for nearly 4 centuries, a covert munitions depot.
That iconic structure is only the ruin we now know because... after surviving remarkably intact for 2000 years... Muslim armaments, stored inside the classical precincts, exploded when the infidels were trying to regain their land and a stray shell hit the bomb-filled building.
Islam Imperialists do not immigrate to a new region, they move there to colonize it.
With contempt for everything we have achieved, all subsumed until the title "The Time of Ignorance".
The fundaments of our civilization~ Sappho, Socrates, Praxiteles, Homer, Democritus, Aristophanes, Heraclitus, Plato, Xenophon, Archimedes, Herodotus, Euclid, Hippocrates, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Catullus, Livy, Cato~ all dismissed by these arrogant imbeciles as "The Time of Ignorance".
As one of the early Mohammaden warlords said, approaching the library in a conquered city: "If the books within agree with the Koran, we don't need them; if they disagree with the Koran, we don't want them. Burn them all."
Islam in a nutshell.
I find the candor of the non-signing Islamic leaders to be refreshing as well as arrogant. Such groups are telling us exactly what they believe and how they intend to act to kill the apostate.
To me, this lack of "moderate" Islamic response is GREAT evidence to reference for court cases brought regarding the Rifqa Bary situation.
If the leaders had signed the paper, I would merely have thought that they were practicing taqiyya, the art of deception against the infidel.
Thanks for all your good work on this vitally important subject.
As a philhellenic and scholar of Greek civilization, this fact is enough to boil my blood about Islam, which it has done whenever I've heard it over the past three or more decades.
That iconic structure is only the ruin we now know because... after surviving remarkably intact for 2000 years... Muslim armaments, stored inside the classical precincts, exploded when the infidels were trying to regain their land and a stray shell hit the bomb-filled building.
I've seen the destruction first hand, with my alma mater the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Re Wafa Sultan, I don't know if you saw my interview with her:
Wafa Sultan's message to America
Keep up the great work.
"If the leaders had signed the paper, I would merely have thought that they were practicing taqiyya, the art of deception against the infidel".
It is of great concern that Muslim leaders in America are so confident that they do not even feel the need to disguise their plans any longer and they have been proven right in this brazeness.
Thanks to a cowardly, bought off and/or leftist biased media and government, the American public is largely in ignorance of Islam, sharia, and the inroads already made by this supremacist belief system that intends to supplant their government.
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