Hostage to their belief?

Hey ya'll.

Bein' part Lebanese I naturally take a look-see here and there about how things is a goin' in the Near East.

Ya''ll hear about the lady Syrian (almost Lebanese) psychologist who had an interview on Al-jezeera and now is gettin' ugly death threats ? She lives in California, is Muslim and jes' told it like it is for Isalm:

"I believe our people are hostages to our own beliefs and teachings," said Dr. Wafa Sultan.

Hmmn...why is that? Here's more frrom the NYT:

Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and barbarism, a battle that the forces of violent, reactionary Islam are destined to lose.

Now the good thang is that the four moderate Muslims in the world are thanking her for speaking out. But the rest who practice the "religion of peace" is a wailing and calling for her demise.

But here's the thang that makes such good sense:

"Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them."

This here is a sensible woman, don't 'cha think?

On Al-Jezeera she asked, "Why does a young Muslim man, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up?" she asked. "In our countries, religion is the sole source of education and is the only spring from which that terrorist drank until his thirst was quenched."

Once a devout Muslim, she was a student at the University of Aleppo when the Muslim Brotherhood burst into the classroom shooting the professor dead while screaming "God is great" Today she says Islam is a, "clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality."

Let's hope more like Dr. Sultan will speak up--soon.

I've noted before, but it bears repeating: All cultures are not equal. Multiculturalism is a sham becasue it assumes all cultures are equal, and they jes' ain't sweet pets. None are perfect, but ours is the least worst--let's defend it.