[Vision2020] 03-11-06 NY Times: For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats

[Chasuk]

On 3/11/06, Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> shared with us:

> March 11, 2006
> The Saturday Profile
> For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys  Islam, Violent Threats
> By JOHN  M. BRODER

> 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.

Here is that interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN4AL-AOyfs&search=Wafa%20Sultan