Wafa Sultan is a medical doctor who trained as a psychiatrist in Syria, and an American author and critic of Muslim society and Islam. Self-described as "shocked into secularism" by terrorist acts committed by the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, especially when her then-professor was killed in 1979, she felt a need to "look for other gods". She emigrated to USA in 1989. Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa\_Sultan