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Wikipedia has an article on her with links to other videos and writings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa_Sultan

Post 41

Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 11:06am

Thanks, Steve!

Recently, she sat in on a free-speech discussion at the University of Southern California, organized by the Ayn Rand Institute with Yaron Brook and Daniel Pipes as speakers. -- Wikipedia

Google Wafa Sultan and be rewarded. She has her own website, www.wafasultan.org, on which you will find links to other heroic advocates of secular humanism.

According to the Wikipedia article, her exchange was accessed a million times on blogs all over the world.

Here is a perhaps more complete and correct transcript.
Wafa Sultan: Bigger, Longer, Uncut - The Full Sultan Jazeera Transcript
Due to the tempest created by Wafa Sultan, 'Aqoul has decided to translate the Arabic transcript of the Al-Jazeera show on which Wafa Sultan for most intents and purposes made her debut. Hosted by Faisal al-Qasim, The Opposite Direction is held in debate format and usually deals with controversial issues touching upon taboo subjects like the Saudi royal family.
http://aqoul.com/images/wafa_sultan.pdf

See a good editorial cartoon featuring her here:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000800.html
(... which Cork and Forkum site <http://www.coxandforkum.com/>
offers links to The Intellectual Activist, Capitalism magazine and to "Atlas Shrugs" at http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/

(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 1/28, 3:36pm)

Post 42

Monday, January 29, 2007 - 5:27pm

She has a christian background but obviously not a christian.

It's always refreshing to see debate instead of insults. No one starts a debate by insulting the other person so I don't really understand the reasoning behind the dutch films and the danish cartoons. Especially since the woman behind the dutch films turned out be a liar saying anything to get a visa and that the danish paper had previously refused to print insulting cartoons about Jesus.

Wafa makes the mistake that all people do by targeting a section of the community and applying it to all.

Post 43

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 9:02am

Unless the rest of that 'community' are hypocrites and deny that the issue applies to them as well....

Post 44

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 11:29am

I don't understand M. Jurrat's post. "She has a christian background but obviously not a christian." What are we to take away from that statement?

He says it's always refreshing to see debate instead of insults and then in two sentences calls the woman who made the dutch films a "liar" and is telling us what her motivation is.

And the business of the Danish paper "...had previously refused to print insulting cartoons about Jesus." What has that got to do with calling for the death of cartoonists or government censorship of the press?

Wafa made no mistake - she compared a barbaric, violent, intolerant set of beliefs against civilization where competition, freely made choices and discussion build the future.

That is the issue in this thread. She called on everyone to see the different sides in their bare essentials.

There are some areas that brook no polite acknowledgement of differences, that demand we challenge any quibbling over smaller details, and this is one of them. When people kill innocent bystanders and use their children as bombs just to cause terror and do so in the name of a religion, the holders of that religion have the duty to set things straight. When a group claims the right to force us all to accept their religious law, we must dissent. We all have a duty to never let anyone distract us from the heart of this moral issue. Some things can't be allowed to pass with silence or non-sequiters.

I don't understand M Jurrat's post.

Post 45

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 4:33pm

     The most interesting thing about her is her near invisibleness in the mainstream media, as Teresa's post 28 alludes to.

     Apart from generally, most especially specifically: NO O'Reilly or Hannity...nor even on the 'other' side...King 'interviews'? (Wonder if Playboy will do one?)

     Methinks that many on both sides...for similar reasons...want not to hear her answer their questions, and, I suspect they do have many; ntl, I think that they fear her responses...and...the 'responses' from others about hers.

LLAP
J:D

(Edited by John Dailey on 1/30, 4:40pm)

Post 46

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 5:01pm

She has a christian background but obviously not a christian.

Thank Galt she's not a Christian. And, duh, her "background" is Islamic, as if that couldn't be more obvious. What's your point?

It's always refreshing to see debate instead of insults. No one starts a debate by insulting the other person so I don't really understand the reasoning behind the dutch films and the danish cartoons. Especially since the woman behind the dutch films turned out be a liar saying anything to get a visa and that the danish paper had previously refused to print insulting cartoons about Jesus.

What the ef are you talking about? Which Dutch films? What woman?

In FREE countries, newspapers can print whatever the fuck they want. Get over it.

Wafa makes the mistake that all people do by targeting a section of the community and applying it to all.

Troll alert.

Post 47

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 8:29pm

Now that I think of it...

Has Rush Limbaugh ever even merely commented on her? (Must be an R-L fan or two 'out there' in ROR-land somewhere.)

LLAP
J:D

Post 48

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 5:24pm

I use a Mac, and do not know how to access .asp files, can someone offer instructions on how to do so? Thanks.

Post 49

Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 12:04am