Joniversity | Moderate Islam: Ally or Myth? (Wafa Sultan VS. Daniel Pipes debate) @Joniversity | Uploaded October 2010 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Is there a robust zone of Muslim belief that lives up to the term "moderate?" Or is "moderate Islam" more of a hopeful Western construct? Wafa Sultan and Daniel Pipes disagree.

Topics covered in this debate:

Daniel Pipes:
- The Future of Islam
- Interpreting Islamic Law
- The Polarization of Islam
- Returning to Moderate Islam

Wafa Sultan:
- The Myth of Moderate Islam
- Islam's Quest for Domination
- Examples of Intolerance and Misogyny from Muhammad's Life
- How to Combat Radical Islam

Bios:

Wafa Sultan
Wafa Sultan is an author and well known critic of Islam. Sultan trained as a psychiatrist in Syria and is a U.S. naturalized citizen.

Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a prize-winning columnist who writes for the New York Times Syndicate. His website, DanielPipes.org, is one of the most accessed internet sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam.

See the full debate here:
fora.tv/2009/12/01/Moderate_Islam_Western_Ally_or_Western_Myth#fullprogram