Talk:Burned Alive

Accuracy
This book, by Souad is very accurate. The article makes false claims that are easy to check by reading the book.

You Guys are wrong! None of this information you put out is true. All you guys say is things you can think of. It's like this can be freely open to anyone to put their information in and you don't care. It's like a dictionary only worse because any body can put what they think in it. Also Souad doesn't claim anything it really happened to her and if you guys would just read the book carefully you would really see what she went through then just saying she claims this and she claims that.


 * Burned Alive is a completely undocumented book, that is riddled with historical goofs, medical impossibilities and outlandish cultural hallucinations. It was almost certainly written by someone with little knowledge of the subject. Until the publishers provide some proof of the book's authenticity and answer the questions Thérèse Taylor raised in her debunking review, Souad should be considered no more trustworthy than Norma Khouri.

Articles should be written as neutral as possible. This article clearly is written from a very sceptical point of view. Opinions should be irrelevant.


 * To call the book implausible and undocumented is hardly voicing an opinion, but merely stating the facts of the case. Should any corroborating evidence supporting the allegations in the book emerge, the article would have to be revised, but until then Burned Alive needs to be treated as a possible literary hoax.

I'm going to create a "controversy" section for this page. I believe that the book has been fabricated, but the article is written from the POV of a skeptic.--Spyderchan 23:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The book was not fabricated. But people should understand that anything relating to a religion that has fanatics will be dominated by their point of view. This article is utter trash, just like the rest of the lies spit out by the Muslim propaganda brigades. You can see something similar in the pages about Adidam and that "guru" or a host of others.

I do not know if this book, "Souad", is accurate or not. However, the criticism presented here as gospel, from Therese Taylor's antiwar.com article is riddled with false and unbalanced claims presented as absolute fact. In reading it I have not found one charge that stands up to scrutiny. The medical "fact" cited by Ms. Taylor is completely false, and it is easy to verify this. The question of the phone cord is hardly conclusive, since having a cord is not necessarily the same as having a phone in that part of the world. I have been unable to find any records whatsoever about the level of phone service in the region in 1982. However, many villages had at least one phone and have for a long time. This was basic to Palestinian society, because the PLO had to have them to run its communications. So whether or not Souad exists or is a true story is not something that can be decided on the basis of Ms. Taylor's abysmal scholarship presented in the antiwar.com article. I rather doubt that she could never get such an article published in a peer reviewed journal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.108.2.239 (talk) 23:04, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Burned Alive
I loved the book, i believe that yes Souad is real but maybe not all accounts of her memory are how ever i would not hold it against her for making errors she was burnt alive! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.217.141.50 (talk) 10:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I read the book and the article's claim that Souad received no medical care is not in the book. According to the book she was getting care at a hospital and went into premature labor. Some type of aid society helped get her and her child out of the country. There is extensive writing about the medical consequences of being burned. Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article about the book hasn't bothered to read it.68.231.26.37 (talk) 01:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Requested move
Souad → Burned Alive: a Victim of the Law of Men – Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 15:59, 22 June 2011 (UTC) This article is clearly about the book credited to Souad, not about the author herself. I motion moving the article to Burned Alive: a Victim of the Law of Men as highlighted in the first paragraph, and redirecting Souad to this article. Fattonyni (talk) 11:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Basically ✅ (but to the shorter title which appears to be the normally used one).--Kotniski (talk) 11:52, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

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