Comments on: Alawis will be Alawis

By: Islamophobia 101--Episode 13--Wafa Sultan: Reformist or Opportunist? « The Islamic Workplace

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:50:23 +0000

[...] Born in 1958 in the coastal town of Baniyas, Syria, Wafa Sultan grew up in a modest middle class Alawite family (important: for more about who the alawis are, and their relation to Islam, please click here). She attended the University of Aleppo where she majored in medical studies (source: wikipedia). [...]

By: Shadower

Shadower — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:44:24 +0000

Both Dezhen and Amir make good points.

Even though the Islamic community never wanted her up there to begin with. We will still suffer the consequences from this.

At the end of the day the media is after a juicy story. And this is just too bursting to pass up. Even one of their own (anyone else read the blog entry?).

It was sort of relevant to the “Poisonous Sub Culture” article.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:55:30 +0000

Last week, they are pumping her up and this week they are tearing her down. I wonder whether they knew about this latest ‘controversy’ whilst they were promoting her last week? Anyway, as bad as this will be for her, I hope she (and the rest of us) learn an important lesson from this: the media giveth, and the media taketh away.

By: dezhen

dezhen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:32:18 +0000

Looks like someone will be having a rather hard time in the near future. This is not good for us, regardless of our own opinion regarding her legitimacy.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:58:28 +0000

http://www.smh.com.au/news/nat.....29738.html

By: dezhen

dezhen — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:09:52 +0000

The same article says that she was released without charge… let’s disclose everything instead of just the first few lines.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:54:54 +0000

Here is an interesting development.

YOUNG Muslim leader Iktimal Hage-Ali – a handpicked adviser to the Prime Minister – was arrested in a cocaine bust eight days before receiving the NSW Young Australian of the Year award.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Ms Hage-Ali, 22, was one of four people arrested by detectives from the Middle Eastern organised crime squad on November 22 as part of Strike Force Kirban.

She was arrested at her Punchbowl home and taken to Bankstown police station, where she was questioned over a cocaine supply ring allegedly operating in Sydney’s southwest.

By: Albert Campion

Albert Campion — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:43:12 +0000

Jealousy is what I’m hearing.

Also, there really isn’t a ‘muslim community’, is there? It takes precious little for people to start saying ‘well, they aren’t real Muslims’. Not to mention Shia/Sunni stuff.

If there was an election for a representative would you even agree on who was allowed to vote?

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:34:42 +0000

She is an Alawi. On 23rd August, 2005 she gave an interview to Jennifer Fleming on ABC 702 Sydney (at approximately 1:53pm). In this interview, she said she was an Alawi and that she had attended the Muslim Youth Summit in her capacity as a representative of the Alawi religion.

I don’t think she has said she is a representative of Muslims or Muslim youth. But that’s not the point because she has stepped into this role and that is how the media and politicians are portraying her. They have the misconception that she is a Muslim and can have an influence in our community, and she is taking advantage of that misconception.

She is commenting on Islamic and Muslim community issues when in reality it is no more appropriate or valuable for her to be putting in her two cents than it is for Muslims to offer their opinions on Christian issues.

By: Albert Campion

Albert Campion — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:04:08 +0000

Well, are you saying that she IS an Alawi becaue she was at the meeting, but that she ‘ISN’T a voice for young Muslims’ because she wasn’t elected?

My point stands – I haven’t heard her say it.