Radical Change From Radical Islam
By Debbie Berman

(IsraelNN.com) Dr. Wafa Sultan is leading a struggle to create a new reality in the Islamic world, which she believes should be led by none other than the women it has oppressed for so long. Born in Syria and now a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist, Dr. Sultan has taken upon herself the mission of trying to change the way the Islamic world operates.

Dr. Sultan spoke with IsraelNationalRadio's Tovia Singer. “My people are in the middle of nowhere lost and confused. I am trying to change their mentality. They have been hostages of their own beliefs and teachings for 14 centuries. No hostage can break the laws of his prison and get out by himself. An outsider has to help him escape his prison. By changing their way of thinking, I am changing their behavior and eventually their future,” Dr. Sultan stated.

Dr. Sultan explained that her perspective on Islam changed radically after she bore witness to the murder of her college professor at the hands of Islamic extremists acting in the name of Allah: “The year 1979 was the turning point of my life. I was a medical student at the University of Aleppo in Syria. At that time, the Brotherhood of Islam committed very bloody and ugly crimes against innocent Syrian people in the name of their God. I witnessed the killing of my professor, a great human being who had nothing to do with the government. They filled his body with hundreds of bullets before my eyes while screaming Allah is great. At that moment I was traumatized. I had just lost trust in their God and started to question his teachings. This event was the turning point that has led me to the present point.”

Dr. Sultan explained that during her upbringing in Syria she was raised to hate Jews: “Up to the very first day that I immigrated to America, I used to believe that Jewish people were not human creatures, that they had different features, different voices than the human race. Unfortunately this is the way I was raised."

She said that it was only through meeting and interacting with Jews on a personal basis that her views began to shift: “I have discovered how wrong we were. The more I work with them the more I find out we are all human beings. The first experience I had in the medical field was with a Jewish doctor. We were four Muslim women in his program, and he treated us very well. My experience is great, so I have to break this taboo and tell my people the truth."

During her recent Al-Jazeera debate, Dr. Sultan praised the high moral standard of the Jewish people, demonstrated by their restrained and resilient response to suffering: “The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people,” Dr. Sultan stated.

In contrast, Dr. Sultan points to the murderous tendencies of Islam: “The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them,” explained Dr. Sultan.

Dr. Sultan called out to women who have traditionally been severely oppressed in the Islamic world to seek out leadership roles in the battle to rid Islam of its militant influences. You are by every means a peaceful creature and by practicing your natural skills and playing your natural role you will be able to lead your divided and broken world to a peaceful better life. The bright future I am hoping for is not too far away,” Wafa stated, envisioning a new reality in the future where all Muslim women will be free to speak their minds openly. “What I am saying right now, if a Muslim woman were to say it in ten years from now she will say it not from her home in the United States but from her home in Saudi Arabia,” Dr. Sultan said.

(Source: Arutz-7)

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Radical Change From Radical Islam By Debbie Berman

Radical Change From Radical Islam
By Debbie Berman