Dude, the bitch has said on a couple of occasions she thinks nuking Muslim nations to bring pressure to bear on them is a good idea. She also says that Western nations need to stop considering Islam a religion, making it acceptable to have the state trample on people's religious freedoms.
So people like her and Ali Sina have helped some people here apostate-- okay, fine-- but that is not enough reason to advocate allying with unprincipled, bigoted, authoritarian warmongering/scaremongering scum like Wafa Sultan. It's shameful you even suggested such a thing. You remind me of labor union activists who suck up to protectionist bigots like Pat Buchanan-- but, more in line with your experience, you also remind me of left-wing anti-imperialists who uncritically support groups like Hamas and Hizbollah. The enemy of my enemy of my friend, right, billy? Even if that friend is a bloodthirsty bigot advocating mass murder and wholesale oppression of large groups of people?
Hi Q-Man
I'm afraid I have to say that your memory is suspect, because I don't endorse all her views. In fact I said specifically that I don't agree with everything she says. So you'll have to correct your reminders, because they are premised on figments of your imagination.
I also said that the reason why people like her get co-opted by the Right, is because people on the Left don't find a way to incorporate rigorous critiques of Islam into their worldview and rhetoric, for various reasons that we've covered here, that are in fact a constant recurring theme of discussions on this site. That, therefore is a failure and betrayal of the Left. Stardust has already mentioned how her commentary helped to dislodge her fear of confronting Islam, and I know one person who says the same, and have heard others say it too. Wafa Sultan seems to me to be a pretty spikey 'outlier' who in her eagerness to go for the jugular of Islam overstates the case occasionally. But the question for me is why is she left to be picked up by the Right and not assimilated and tempered by the Left, who appear to be witless and frightened to address radical critiques of Islam. (there is something else that may prevent this that is to do with being unable to articulate, in a secular context, a critique of any religion because the secular doesn't have the language to address the claims of divinity and religion - it feels embarassed or shy to do so, which is a failure caused by a lack of capability, not cowardice)
Finally, do you have a reference to her saying Islamic countries should be nuked? I wasn't aware she had said such a thing. If she has, it goes without saying, she jumped the gun on that one.
Topic: Wafa Sultan : Speak harshly and carry a stick