Walid Shoebat is the assumed name of a Palestinian, American citizen, and self-proclaimed former terrorist. Shoebat came to public attention by becoming an ardent critic of Islam and supporter of Israel. He describes himself as a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who took part in terrorist attacks against Israeli targets [1]. Image File history File links WalidShoebatculture. ... Image File history File links WalidShoebatculture. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah منظمة تحرير فلسطينية ) is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the... This article is becoming very long. ...

He is the founder of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, an organization that seeks to combat anti-semitism and promote peace in the Middle East. He has appeared on FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and the BBC. The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... MSNBC, a combination of MSN and NBC, is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States and Canada, and a news website. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion...

Life

According to the biography on his official website, Shoebat was born in Bethlehem of Judea. He was the grandson of the Mukhtar of Beit Sahour, who Shoebat describes as an associate of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni. During his youth, Shoebat joined the Palestine Liberation Organization, and was involved in terrorist attacks against Israel. He was caught by the Israelis during a botched bombing attempt and was sent to prison. Central Bethlehem Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم   house of meat; Standard Hebrew בית לחם house of bread, Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem; Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a city in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank under Palestinian Authority considered a central hub of Palestinian cultural and tourism... Map of the southern Levant, c. ... Mukhtar, meaning chosen in Arabic, refers to the head of a village or mahalle (urban district) in many Arab countries. ... Beit Sahour (Arabic: بيت ساحور pronounced ) is a Palestinian town in the West Bank, situated to the east of Bethlehem. ... The title Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is predominantly used to refer to Mohammad Amin al-Husayni. ... Mohammad Amin al-Husayni Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (ca. ...

Upon his release, Shoebat continued his anti-Israeli activism until he migrated to the US, where he became involved with the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago. Shortly afterwards Walid worked as a software engineer and became a US citizen. In 1993, Walid converted to Evangelical Christianity after examining the Bible in response to a challenge from his wife, initially trying to persuade her into converting to Islam. He has since studied various historical documents relating to Jewish and Middle East history. United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... Harold Washington College is a division of the City Colleges of Chicago, located in the business district of Chicago, IL. Founded in 1962 as Loop College, the college was renamed in memoriam of late African-American Chicago mayor Harold Washington. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government... Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... Evangelicalism, in a strictly lexical, but rarely used sense, refers to all things that are implied in belief that Jesus is the savior. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ...

After the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Shoebat became an active advocate against Islamism and a fervent supporter of the State of Israel. He has appeared on mainstream media around the world including CNN, FOX News, ITN, RTE, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Pacifica Radio and has been heard on hundreds of radio stations around the US and the world. Shoebat has given lectures at many US institutions such as Harvard Law School, Capital Hill, Columbia University, Concordia University, UC Davis, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Barbara, University of Georgia, Washington University, Penn State and San Diego State. He is featured as an expert witness on a number of documentaries on Islamism. [2] September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Political Ideologies Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This article is about political Islamism. ... Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ... ITN may refer to: Independent Television News In the news, a section on the Main Page of English Wikipedia This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; English: Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national state broadcaster of Ireland. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... // Midweek Politics with David Pakman is a nationally syndicated talk radio program featuring David Pakman as host. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Categories: Suburbs of Canberra (incomplete) | Suburbs of Canberra ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Concordia University is a large urban university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, one of Montreals two universities that teach primarily in the English language (the other is McGill University). ... The University of California, Davis, commonly abbreviated to UC Davis or UCD is one of the ten University of California campuses. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Barbara County, California. ... The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. ... Washington University in St. ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university in Pennsylvania, with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the state. ... A landmark architecture featured in the school logo. ... Political Ideologies Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This article is about political Islamism. ...

Shoebat argues that parallels exist between radical Islam and Nazism. He says, "Secular dogma like Nazism is less dangerous than Islamofascism that we see today ... because Islamofascism has a religious twist to it; it says 'God the Almighty ordered you to do this'.... It is trying to grow itself in fifty-five Muslim states. So potentially, you could have a success rate of several Nazi Germany's, if these people get their way."^[1] National Socialism redirects here. ... Islamofascism is a controversial neologism suggesting an association of the ideological or operational characteristics of certain modern Islamist movements with European fascist movements of the early 20th century, neofascist movements, or totalitarianism. ...

Criticism

Shoebat has come under criticism from pro-Palestinian activists who believe that, as a staunch supporter of Israel who appears to despise Islam and Muslims, he cannot make an effective contribution to reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. An article on Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian website, describes him as a member of a "fanatic" sect (referring to Evangelical Christianity) who makes "blatantly racist declarations against Islam" and believes that adherents to most Christian denominations are "false Christians". [3] ei logo The Electronic Intifada (ei) is a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective, offering an alternative analysis to Mainstream media. ...

Sheila Musaji said of Shoebat that "This is an extremist Christian terrorist. This is not a former terrorist. This is a man who used to hate Jews and now hates Muslims, who used to commit violence against Jews and now justifies violence against Muslims."^[2] In a CounterPunch article from 2004, Will Youmans noted that Shoebat had never come under criminal investigation in the US for his alleged terrorist activities, nor had he been threatened with deportation, although two other Palestinians in the US had faced deportation proceedings because of their alleged involvement with terrorist groups. Youmans suggests that Shoebat is effectively immune from prosecution or deportation because of his pro-Israel views. He also argues that Shoebat's religious convictions, including the belief that Jews will be forced to "accept Christ or perish in hell" when the Rapture comes, are intrinsically anti-Semitic. Furthermore, Youmans contends that Shoebat's beliefs are incompatible with efforts towards peace, because of the premillennial, dispensational doctrine that the Second Coming of Christ will be hastened by conflict in the Middle East. [4] Other critics see him as a sort of Quisling who has made an unholy alliance with hawkish Israelis and pro-Israel groups by turning against his own people and former religion.^{[citation needed]} Sheila Musaji is the founder and editor of The American Muslim quarterly journal (1989-1995), the Muslim Resource Directory of America (1990,1992), and most recently The American Muslim online publication (since 2001). ... Counterpunch can refer to: In traditional typography, a counterpunch is a type of punch used to create the negative space in or around a character. ... Will Youmans (born in Detroit, MI in 1978) is a Palestinian American writer, activist and hip-hop artist. ... Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... In conservative Protestant Christian eschatology, the rapture (harpazo in Greek in 1 Thessalonians 4:17) is the name given to the event in which all Christians living on earth are simultaneously transported to Heaven to be with Jesus Christ. ... This article specifically relates to Premillennialism in Christian eschatology; for political millenarianism and other uses of the word see Millenarianism Premillennialism in Christian eschatology is the interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation in the Bible which sees Christs second coming as occurring before or pre- his... Dispensationalism is a branch of Christian theology that teaches biblical history as best understood in light of a number of successive economies or administrations under God, which it calls dispensations, and emphasizes prophecy of the end-times and the pre-tribulation rapture view of Christs second coming. ... The Second Coming or Last Coming refers to the Christian belief in the coming or earthly return of Jesus Christ to fulfill Messianic prophecy, such as the resurrection of the dead, last judgment and full establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth (also called the Reign of God), including... Quisling, after Norwegian fascist politician Vidkun Quisling, is a term used to describe traitors and collaborationists. ...

He also claims the Arab world is trying to "resurrect the Ottoman empire", dispite the obvious error that the Ottoman empire is a Turkish construction.

Bibliography

• Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam
• The Culture of Death: Coverage of testimony given by Shoebat.
• From Hate to Love: Discusses the anti-semitic indoctrination of Palestinian children.
• Walid Shoebat: A Testimony of Faith to Redemption

Documentaries

• Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
• Islam: What the West Needs to Know

Online media

• Video of Walid Shoebat on FOX News
• Interview on God's Learning Channel
• List of Walid Shoebat online media
• Video featuring Walid Shoebat, Zak Anani and Ibrahim Abdullah on CN8, subtitled in French
• The Mind of a terrorist
• Video interview of 3 ex-terrorists

See also

• Wafa Sultan
• Nonie Darwish
• Brigitte Gabriel
• Ismail Khaldi
• List of former Muslims

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External links

• Shoebat.com The home page of Walid Shoebat
• walid-shoebat.com
• BBC News Palestinian militant turned peacemaker
• The Telegraph: I only wanted to kill Jews
• World Net Daily Editorial: The Unmaking Of A Terrorist by Joseph Farah
• New Voices Magazine: The Changeling by Josh Nathan-Kazis
• Counterpunch: Deal with the Devil "A Palestinian Zionist and the End of the World" by Will Youmans
• Electronic Intifada "Pro-Israel students host racist Islamophobe to speak for Israel" by Fadi Kiblawi
• A Terrorist Who Turned To Love by Jamie Glazov at FrontPage Magazine
• Former terrorist fuels controversy
• Pro-Israel ex-terrorist denied entry into Canada
• Walid Shoebat tells his story to hundreds in Winnipeg
• Former terrorist speaks against violence
• Former terrorist has changed his ways
• YouTube link to the Fox News interview
• Shoebat: From Palestinian Terrorist to Lover of Zion?

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References

1. ^ Wayne Kopping & Raphael Shore. (2005). Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.
2. ^ Obsession: Radical Islam's War With the West?