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I have posted elseware that the city of Dearborn Michigan and Detroit Metro are home to about 500,000 Muslimz - a half million- the largest population outside the Middle East- this is a current statistic 2008

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The following is my transcript of English sub-titles taken from an original Arab language broadcast on Al Jazeera Qatar TV Feb.21, 2006 that someone posted on the Web for the world to see.
It is the translation of a partial TV interview with
Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan.


Transcript:
Wafa: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or of civilizations.
     It’s a clash between two opposites two, eras.
     It’s a clash between a mentality that belongs in the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs in the 21st Century.
     It’s a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality.
     It’s a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship.
     It’s a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights on the other.
     It’s a clash between those who treat women like beasts and those who treat them as human beings.

What we seem today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash but compete.

Moderator: I understand from your words that what is happening today is the clash between the culture of the West and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?

Wafa: Yes, that is what I mean.

Moderator: Who came up with the clash of nations. Was it not Samuel Huntington?
It was not Bin Laden. I would like to discuss this issue if you don’t mind.

Wafa: The Muslims were the ones who began using this expression
The Muslims were the ones who began this clash of civilizations.
The Prophet of Islam said
“ I was ordered to fight the people until they believe in Allah and his Messenger”
When the Muslims divided the people into Muslims and non-Muslims and called to fight the others until they believe what they themselves believe, they started this clash and began this war.

In order to stop this war, they must re-examine their Islamic books and curricula, which are full of calls for takfir and fighting the infidels.

My colleague has said that he never offends other people’s beliefs. What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other people names they did not choose for themselves? Once he calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma, another time he calls them “People of the Book.” and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or he calls the Christians “those who incur Allah’s wrath”. Who told you they are People of the Book?

They are not the People of the Book, they are the people of many books.
All the useful scientific books you have today are theirs and the fruit of their free and creative thinking. What gives you the right to call them “those who incur Allah’s wrath”? or” those who have gone astray?” and then come here and say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the belief of others?
I am not a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew. I am a secular human being. I do not believe in the supernatural but I respect others right to believe in it.

Imam: Are you a heretic?
Wafa: You can say whatever you like. I am a secular human being who does no0t believe in the supernatural.


Imam: If you are a heretic there is no point in rebuking you since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran.

Wafa: These are personal matters and don’t concern you. Brother, you can believe in stones as long as you don’t throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people’s beliefs are not your concern. Whether they believe in the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people hyave their beliefs.

The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust) and forced the world to respect them with their knowledge, not with their terror: with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th Centuries to Jewish scientists.

15 million people scattered throughout the world united and won their rights through work and knowledge.

We have not seen one Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant.
We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church.
We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.

The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble.
We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim or burn down an embassy.

Only Muslims defend their faith by burning down churches, and 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.

At this point the tape ended