Sunday, January 8, 2012
A God Who Hates
By Wafa Sultan..
So far I am in page 60 and I don't know if the course of this book will change or not..
It's a non-fiction book about this lady-Wafa Sultan- who was a Muslim-don't know if she is going to change her religion or quit Islam in the coming pages- who is -in simple words- in a fight with Islam and Muslims.
It's good to read something beyond your beliefs from time to time but too much negativity is a curse. I couldn't stop comparing what she is writing to what Deepak Chopra wrote in his book "Muhammad" !! . The message of peace will always win my heart.
From the beginning the author writes about how she is against Islam, but during these 60 pages she is more against Muslims and no wonder since she starts and keeps repeating :
"Most Muslims, if not all of them, will condemn me to death when they read this book, they may not even read it. The title alone will push them to condemn me. That's how things are with them. They don't read, or, if they do, they don't take in what they read. They are much more interested in disagreement in rapprochement and they are-first and foremost-supremely interested in inducing fear in others with whom they disagree" P1.
How can you expect people to believe you as a fair person or author when you start your book with such words , and the book is full of them . So unless the book is not for Muslims - and I doubt it's- then she is making a wrong first step.
The book is a bit old "2009" and is praised by people like "Daniel Pipes and the president of the Rand institution" .
Is this a biography ? It's not clear yet but it's more about the author's life in Syria then Muslims anywhere else.
I understand her frustration about the position of women in Muslim countries and there is no excuse for that and I understand how someone would think of the whole religion as corrupted and bad due to that but to redeem all its followers to be such evil and horrible people is something crazy to me. so rule number one: generalization is a grave and evil, whether you are talking about religions, races or even believing that all horror movies are gross :)
Reading the book, I couldn't stop asking myself, why would someone hate something so much to be blind to any good thing in it ? do we have to be harmed by it to hate it so much ? or ... ? <<< I honestly looking for more questions about that.
Finally, fighting ideas is OK with me, cuz you either being logical about it and destroy it or can not and it will grow even stronger. But fighting people, a whole bunch of them is completely wrong.
This book is testing my patience of reading an insult after another towards me since I am a Muslim, but I will keep reading :)
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8 comments:
Oh, I was warned about her soon after meeting Samer. Haha! He's no fan! :)
Susanne,
lol. I wouldn't go as far as warning, but I guess Samer has a point especially if someone doesn't know anything about Islam, Muslims or Muslims society then they shouldn't start learning by reading her.
She's completely void of any logic or truth. She takes her own perspective and blows it up then generalizes it over all Muslims. It's frustrating to even remotely try to reason with her.
Then you see her admiration to the Jewish people and Judaism in general. While describing them as being people of science and knowledge, she condemns Arabs and Muslims of being mad people bent on burning the world at the stake.
Her book I believe isn't directed towards Muslims, it's to fuel the hatred of the right wing America with their Islamophobia. Just like many have done before her.
You should hear her speak, and then you'll wonder, who -really- wrote this book. Unlike Salman Rushdie who is a real amazing author, she can barely combine two sentences. She doesn't have his eloquence or elegance.
We should never judge a book by it's cover. I'm really happy to see you trying to read this.
Keep us posted
Qwaider,
I don't even think that her own prespective this gloomy, you can see voids here and there every few seconds, so..
And as i kept reading, I came to this conclusion, this book is not for Muslims or Arabs to enlighten us but for someone else..it's full of evil fairy tales that someone else might believe if they didn't live in these places.
As of speaking, I honestly was so surprised each time she insisted that she was gifted with writing skills and how good of a writer she is, really? this is good writing !!if i am not curious enough about what's going to happen next then that book was thrown away earlier.
And i would definitely look for some of her videos to see more of her.
Thanks for your comment :)
I agree this book is definitely not for Muslims, but, like Qwaider said, to fuel the anger and bigotry of the right wing.
Becky,
I think this book and the like of it shouldn't be for any human being... I do believe in great and uncensored knowledge but that book was not providing any but hate, so yes it's to fuel the need of hatred to anything Islamic and to Muslims.
Yeah I agree with you. Sadly most people prefer to read stuff that reinforces their beliefs, rather than stuff that challenge it.
Becky,
Exactly and that's why most reading counts for nothing but pure reading.
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