Blast from the past! Wafa Sultan: Hypocrite of the highest order?

Yesterday, one of my many readers left me a link to a video featuring Wafa Sultan. Since I’m in such a jubilant mood in this auspicious month of Ramadhan, I would feature Wafa Sultan’s story here today.

By the way, folks… Do you know who or what is Wafa Sultan in the first place?

No no… Silly. Wafa Sultan is not a new kind of fruit cake. It’s not a rotten cookie either. Wafa Sultan is a person, a Syrian-American lady born in 1958 in Syria. Last I knew is that she is living somewhere in Los Angeles, California. She also claimed that she is a Muslim but I have no way of confirming that as of time of writing.

What made her famous and worthy of an Oscar nomination was the discussion that she took part in an Al Jazeera television program called ‘The Opposite Direction’ on the 21st of February 2006. The lady (who has a mouth louder than the backside of a healthy chicken, they say) went into overdrive and verbally attacked the program’s host Faisal al-Qaseem, the program’s guest Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli and Muslims of the world in general. Yes, it was a heated argument all right and they were arguing about Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilizations theory.

Wafa Sultan, a lady who would boldly goes into where no other Star Trekker had gone (Black Hole, perhaps) arrogantly scolded and condemned Muslims for creating trouble and mischief here on planet Earth. Wafa Sultan who taught that she had the world’s history at her fingertips labeled Muslims in the past and in the present as nothing but troublemakers and war wagers.

Strange but true, the full 90 minutes video of that televised discussion cannot be found in the internet. At least, that’s what I had discovered earlier today. One thing clear is that both Muslims and non-Muslims are using portions of that discussion for their specific interests. Non-Muslims displaying talents normally found in any other talented fraudsters cleverly edited the recorded discussion so that Wafa Sultan would look and sound triumphant and victorious in her condemnations of Muslims. Muslims on the other hand retained Wafa Sultan’s condemnations and they made sure that Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli’s responses and answers to her condemnations were included as well in their video versions of the discussion. Yes, Wafa Sultan was not really triumphant or victorious for her claims and condemnations had been refuted and debunked on the spot! You can see that for yourself from the videos that I have provided down below.

Part I This video maybe offensive and inappropriate for some folks. Viewer discretion is advised

Part II This video maybe offensive and inappropriate for some folks. Viewer discretion is advised

Part III This video maybe offensive and inappropriate for some folks. Viewer discretion is advised

Part IV This video maybe offensive and inappropriate for some folks. Viewer discretion is advised

Talking about refuting and debunking Wafa Sultan’s condemnations on Muslims, Brother Bassam Zawadi had rebutted all of her condemnations with actual facts. Please follow the link that I have provided and learn. InsyAllah, the acquired knowledge would help Muslims in other parts of the world in answering difficult questions and tricky arguments that might be posed upon you by the non-Muslims. Defend our faith and religion with knowledge. Be a smart Muslim, Brothers and Sisters. :-)

To tell you the truth, we have a lot of such Muslims in the sick caliber of Wafa Sultan here in Malaysia. You would not be able to see them or differentiate them from the rest of the good Muslims though. You certainly won’t see them on national television channels here in Malaysia. If you are lucky and sharp enough, you might be able to see their true stinking colors when they are giving their mightier-than-life speeches in their nationwide political campaigns. Yes, they are mostly politicians! Malaysia would hold a general election soon and these hypocrites would once again weave their discreet and invisible anti-Islam propagandas to fool unsuspecting Muslims. Please be careful out there, Brothers and Sisters.

Before I go, I would like to thank those kind Brothers and Sisters over at MuslimSpace Dot Com for helping me in fulfilling my reader’s request for comments on this subject. May Allah swt Bless and Protects each and every one of you! :-)

Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur-an).

Noble Quran [Al-Furqan 25:52]

O Prophet! strive hard against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell, an evil refuge indeed.

Noble Quran [At-Tauba 9:73]

Ibn 'Abbas' s Hadith, may Allah be pleased with them.
Sa'id bin Jubair reported: I asked Ibn 'Abbas about surah Al-Taubah, whereupon he said: As for surah Al-Taubah, it is (the exposure of evil) and meant to humiliate (the non-believers and the hypocrites). There is constantly revealed in it (the pronoun) minhum (of them) and minhum (of them, i.e. such is the condition of some of them) till they (the Muslims) thought that none would be left unmentioned out of those who would be blamed (for one fault or the other). I again said: What about surah Al-Anfal? (The Spoils of War) He said: It pertains to the Battle of Badr. I again asked him about surah Al-Hashr (The Gathering). He said: It was revealed in connection with (the tribe) of Banu Al-Nadir.

Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 5359

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