Dishonorable Islam

"If Islam really treated women with honor, we would see the positive 
consequences of that honor over the course of the past 14 centuries. Islam 
did not treat women with honor. On the contrary, it has distorted the 
concept of honor." (Dr Wafa Sultan)

"My brother Rashid, I can call this pen a knife for 14 centuries, but it 
will never become a knife. It will remain a pen. Islam has turned these 
concepts upside-down, and has forced its followers to see things as their 
opposites  to view killing and beheading as an act of tolerance, to view 
taking a woman captive as an act of compassion, to view the plundering of 
spoils of war as their right, and to view masturbation against a little 
girls thighs as marriage." (ibid)

"Thus, it has destroyed the intellectual structure of the Arabic-speaking 
nation, and has produced people who cannot distinguish between things and 
their opposites  people with distorted thinking and warped mentality, as 
infertile as barren land, which cannot yield a thing." (ibid)

* Quotes by Dr. Wafa Sultan. Dr. Sultan is leading a struggle to create a 
new reality in the Islamic world, which she believes should be led by none 
other than the women it has oppressed for so long. Born in Syria and now a 
Los Angeles-based psychiatrist.