tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post6440196583605946206..comments2024-02-20T21:48:16.978-05:00Comments on The Beak Speaks: Reading Wafa Sultanbeakerkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-29758120332199529322011-01-26T13:48:11.273-05:002011-01-26T13:48:11.273-05:00Alligator, do you know that Solzhenitsyn was a Tsa...Alligator, do you know that Solzhenitsyn was a Tsarist who believed the Russian people must endure a level of suffering to redeem the world ?<br /><br />In other words, a bit crazy. Do your research before you enter the complicated matter of trying to understand another culture.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-12994930711320648052011-01-24T20:22:51.488-05:002011-01-24T20:22:51.488-05:00Editrix
There are those that can't handle a b...Editrix<br /><br />There are those that can't handle a blunt assessment of fact.<br /><br />I want to point out reading the part about the wives of the prophet was painful even though I knew the facts.<br /><br />Now I want to stress the story of Zainab was an outrage in its day and Sultan's stories about adoption ring sadly true.<br /><br />People did marry at a younger age because life expectancy was shorter. I am not certain that consumating a union at nine was ever normal but twelve may sadly have been a possibility.<br /><br />Onto the Jewish wife, this was a local custom not limited to Muslims. Wives were acquired through wardare in the Old Testament. Now the difference between a raid for profit and a military campaign means something to me but is in the area of nuance.beakerkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-6472491771697991632011-01-24T07:00:34.303-05:002011-01-24T07:00:34.303-05:00A God Who Hates is a grim book and rivals Brigitte...<i>A God Who Hates</i> is a grim book and rivals Brigitte Gabriel's book in that regard.<br /><br />IMO, both books should be required reading -- particularly for Islamophiles.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-19626769020693805782011-01-24T05:59:58.550-05:002011-01-24T05:59:58.550-05:00"If you are looking for thought provoking blu..."If you are looking for thought provoking blunt words Sultan is for you. If you are looking for nuance make another selection."<br /><br />And what "nuance" might that be? That they don't stone little girls to death anymore but hang them, as it happens in Iran? That is about as "nuanced" as it gets. There IS NO "nuance". Full stop! There is just Islam.The_Editrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-88720051853364456602011-01-24T05:56:11.602-05:002011-01-24T05:56:11.602-05:00"Sadly, those of us familiar with real lives ..."Sadly, those of us familiar with real lives are not shocked by horrific abuse."<br /><br />Beak, that is a silly comparison. Of course there are battered wifes, raped daughters and sisters and sexually abused little boys in Western families, but it is not, so to say, system-resident there. It is NOT considered good clinical practice to laugh at a woman who received cigarette burns from her husband and to perform an abortion without anaesthetics to punish her. In Western countries all this is considered felonious. Not so in Muslim countries. Something like that is not just permitted, it is called for by Islamic law.<br /><br />And they treat their women a darn sight worse than domestic animals.The_Editrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-4605777024768167732011-01-23T23:45:12.275-05:002011-01-23T23:45:12.275-05:00Beak I have several friends who had been involved ...Beak I have several friends who had been involved in Christian ministries behind the Iron Curtain in the late 70s through the 80s. Most had visited several Middle Eastern nations as well. Everyone of them said the totalitarian oppression in Communist countries paled in comparison to that in Islamic countries, even in supposedly "moderate" Egypt. My aunt spent three years living in Iraq, Egypt and Morocco long before the notion of Khomeini, Al Queda, Hezbollah and the like. On a personal level she liked the people and made friends there. However, even in that earlier era, the religious/political atmosphere of those countries was nothing to write home about, let alone emulate. <br /><br />It's unfortunate that Wafa Sultan, Walid Shoebat and those like them get marginal coverage by the lame stream media. But as I recall, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was also shunned by the press, once he made it clear that the Soviet communists were not nice people you could negotiate or work with.Alligatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764752508206031685noreply@blogger.com