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Los Angeles based Syrian/American Psychiatrist [[Wafa Sultan]] appeared on an [[al-Jazeera]] television show opposite Dr. [[Ibrahim al-Khouly]], a lecturer at Cairo's Al-Azhar University. Memri offered a heavily edited version of the show, and mistranslated several of the exchanges, making it appear that al-Khouly had issued a death [[w:fatwa upon |fatwa]] against Sultan. Wafa Sultan became known as someone who had her life threatened because of her "[[Clash of Civilizations]]" point of view.

It turns out that Sultan had appeared on a daytime al Jazeera show, roughly equivalent to Jerry Springer, that Western Educated Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouly had not issued a fatwa, and even if he had done so, he does is not hold a position to rightfully do so[[w:Mufti|Mufti]], and would not have been proper.

A secularist blog produced by secular Mid Easternerscovering topics broadly related to [[w:MENA|MENA]], named [http://www.aqoul.com/ Aqoul], took a tape of the whole show, and translated it, making it available in a PDF file: [http://aqoul.com/images/wafa_sultan.pdf Transcript Translation: al-Jazeera - The Opposite Direction (26/02/2006)]. Posts on Aqoul, as well as one on the [http://www.windsofchange.net/ Winds of Change ] blog offer a great deal of insight into the distortions: