| A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam |  | Author: Wafa Sultan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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ISBN: 0312538359
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Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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From the front page of The New York Times to YouTube, Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time, she tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about radical Islam in A God Who Hates, a passionate memoir by an outspoken Arabic woman that is also a cautionary tale for the West. She grew up in Syria in a culture ruled by a god who hates women. “How can such a culture be anything but barbarous?”, Sultan asks. “It can’t”, she concludes “because any culture that hates its women can’t love anything else.” She believes that the god who hates is waging a battle between modernity and barbarism, not a battle between religions. She also knows that it’s a battle radical Islam will lose. Condemned by some and praised by others for speaking out, Sultan wants everyone to understand the danger posed by A God Who Hates.
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 A "Must Read" Book September 6, 2010
Belle
Great book. Every American should read this (men & women)!! Don't wait until it is too late.
Best EVER ! August 29, 2010
Normandlynn
This was the best read ever! I enjoyed every minute.......These interesting biographies are hard to come by! Not only did I learn from reading this book but I enjoyed every minute.
Brave woman who speaks out agaist evils of Islam July 30, 2010
Victoria (Honolulu, Hawaii)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I completely agree with reviewer below-this is very accurate portrayal of Islam and how it oppresses people. She doesn't hate the Muslim people as a whole but Islam which is hateful and intolerant religion. Its easy to see how it affects people in Islamic countries and I wish more Americans put their PC mindset aside and learn for themselves how Islam breeds terror and death for everyone who follows it.
 Makes you feel you should be afraid of ALL Muslims July 22, 2010
Need the Truth (Virginia)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
When I first started reading this book, it was profound in that Wafa obviously has done a lot of soul searching. She seemed to begin by shedding some light on how Arabs viewed their God. She describes how the desert creates fear in it's inhabitants; the fear of dieing of thirst and that to combat this fear, the inhabitants, the people, had to create an ogre (Allah) to protect them. She also goes on to say that Arabic literature and history books are replete with stories of raids, fear and conquering as a way of life in order to survive. There's nothing positive in the teaching and education of the people and when Muslims have a conversation, they don't even listen to one another, but just shriek and yell and whoever shrieks the loudest is the one who commands and all others will listen. But then the majority of the book paints a picture of hopelessness for the Arab countries and the rest of the world. She calls on America to fix it, but gives no suggestion as to how. Thanks, Wafa.
The theme of Arabs that Wafa paints is one of master and slave that permeates all areas of their lives: government, employment, marriage and friendships. Women are dirt and women and children are treated like chattel (property). According to Wafa, most women and girls are sexually abused, raped, and beaten by the men in their lives: fathers, uncles, husbands, brothers. Sick. The concept of submission is what the Koran teaches and it's how they live; submission to your ruler, your employer, your husband, and your parents. Ask no questions, Just blindly obey.
In the first 1/4 of the book, Wafa describes the Muslims here in America and she says that they have no respect for our values or culture; that they're here only to raid (by buying our cars, houses and other material goods), having no respect for out land, and to hurt us. She says you can't trust Muslims here because she's seen first hand how two-faced they are. In front of Americans, they're respectful, polite, and picture perfect, but behind Americans backs, they're cursing us. That point really disturbed me. I started to feel more hatred to all Muslims. But I know, deep down, that ALL people aren't 100% of anything. So I had to keep reading.
Then about 3/4 through the book, Wafa said Muslims coming into this country want a better life and are seeking to break away from the prison of Islam. So, she contradicts herself and I'm left feeling bewildered. Not knowing how I should react to Muslims or what I should think.
Some of her writing had a few grammatical errors in it that confused me and which prompted several re-readings of the same passage and even then I ended up having to be ok with presuming what she meant. Her flow of ideas were a little choppy and I found myself having to turn back a few pages to re-read so that I could grasp the time period and country she was speaking about. It wasn't all that bad, but at times I was not altogether sure of exactly when or where she was talking about. She flips back and forth between childhood memories in Syria and her early years in the United States making her thoughts slightly disjointed.
There are a lot of people, reviewers of this book included, that blast her as a person who just hates the religion of Islam; that she's a liar and a person out for revenge for the way she was treated as a child and as a women. I take all that venom towards her with a grain of salt. One only has to look at the Arab culture and ask themselves, "Why, after so many centuries, do these people not have a philosophy of liberation? They have been stuck in their situation for over 1400 years! Why hasn't it changed?"
Wafa's explanation of the fears of the desert, specifically citing the Arabic literature of the Bedouin father who tries to find help for his son, who is badly hurt, and wanders through the desert only to find himself circling back to where his son is and then finds his son dead, is what drives their continued belief system. And it's this belief system, a life of nothing but struggle and only the strongest and most powerful survive, that keeps them a prisoner in their own land. Basically, it's the survival of the fittest.The only way to survive is to believe in the sayings of the prophet Muhammad, which means obeying Allah, and raid each other. Well, perhaps that's partly true? Look at how they live. Look how long they've been stuck in their situation. No doubt there is something disfunctional going on.
The question remains, though, how much of that population, what percentage, is the true representation of what Wafa describes? I don't know if anyone will ever find a truly unbiased book about the beliefs of that culture. You'll get differrent images and different perspectives, but would you ever find a true overall picture of the overall philosophy of that culture?
I feel fairly confident of one thing and that is that their education doesn't allow them to read Greek and Roman literature or any other literature of other cultures. They're not exposed to other cultures way of life or thinking, and when they are exposed, it's through propaganda. Look through the history books and you'll find that when individuals want to break free, they begin a revolution and from there, eventually, freedom is found. But this desire to be free begins with learned thought, higher-order thinking, higher education. This isn't something that most Arabs and non-Arabs are exposed to.They are censored and kept submissive.
Take into account the facts that The Middle East has always been oppressed by rulers, their education has been limited to the beliefs of that culture and there's not much question about how they are still in the mindset that they're in. The really scary thing is that Wafa also explains that many of these people don't want another way to live. Their beliefs are so grounded in fear that there is no more room for any change in belief.
After reading this book, I feel like I need to search for other books to round out my knowledge. It does prompt a person to continue to search for more about the Middle East, the Koran and other factors that contribute to that culture. One thing I disagree with many people on is the viewpoint that the Crusades were mostly responsible for the strife between the East and the West. Although, they certainly didn't help any, I wish people would stop trying to pinn the blame on one area of history.
Excellent book July 4, 2010
David W. King (Marshall, TX)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is about the author's experience growing up as an educated woman in Syria. She shows how the "God" of Islam apparently hates women and how Islam as a religion denigrates and uses women and enslaves them to men. She now lives in the U.S.A. but is outspoken in her criticism of Islam. Her writings have been published in various periodicals in the M.E. as well as in the U.S. Having lived more than 25 years in the M.E., we understand what she is saying. She is not exaggerating.
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