"A child in the Muslim world has no rights.....Islamic teachings persuade Muslim children that their parents must be obeyed because they gave them life, but the same teachings tell the parents nothing of their responsibility for the quality and nature of that child's life." [p. 121]

Thus we have the Koran and Arab society sanctifying the abuse of women and defenseless children. Over 50% of Muslim women are illiterate, kept that way by their men. Sultan's mother, a women married at 15, gave birth to 8 children. She was never educated.

"Illiterate people are perfectly fluent in the colloquial language, but are virtually unable to comprehend the form of Arabic used for reading and writing. My mother had never read the Koran or any other book on Islam, its teachings or its history. Her knowledge did not extend beyond what was transmitted orally by the local women from one generation to the next. Naturally, my mother could not understand what the preacher in the mosque was saying. Although she could perhaps pick out a word here and there.....She would rate preachers by the stridency of their voices and the degree of emotion they displayed..." [p. 69]

The screaming of mosque leaders replaces rationality. Arabs as Sultan says, love to argue, scream and intimidate. They don't like discussion, debate, or the concepts of compromise and freedom of choice:

"I have never seen in my life Muslims talk without disagreement....Their tendency to argumentativeness makes them defensive and their custom deems attack to be the best method of defense since it gives them the chance to shout and shriek." [p. 4]

Muslims are always right, because Allah said so. Arabs are always right because their culture says so.

Men can scream at their children whilst beating their wives. Most women in the Arab world are sexually abused as children. Marrying off a girl at the age of 13, in exchange for some money, to a far older man is legion within the Islamic world, even within Arab and Islamic ghettos in the West. As a doctor in Syria, Sultan saw innumerable rape victims:

"In most cases, after a number of questions, the young woman would confess that for many years, since childhood, she had been sexually abused by her father, her brother, an uncle, or another male relative." [p. 28]

Abortion from these rapes is endemic within Islam. A Muslim girl who is not a virgin upon her marriage day can be killed for dishonoring the family. Not only do Muslim doctors perform abortions for outrageously high fees, they also sew up the vagina to make the woman pure again:

"Unmarried women who became pregnant as a result of these rapes were murdered as soon as their condition was discovered to wash away the disgrace and keep the scandal hidden....The death certificate would read, 'Death from natural causes.'" [p. 89]