{"id":2165,"date":"2009-07-23T03:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rumormillnewsradio.com\/podcast\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2009-07-23T03:44:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:44:56","slug":"walidshoebat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2009\/07\/23\/walidshoebat\/","title":{"rendered":"Walid Shoebat: Former terrorist who shed his life of violence and hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen as former terrorist Walid Shoebat presents an insider&#8217;s view of the evils of Islamic fundamentalism and his passion to present the truth about Israel.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A group calling itself Hizb ut-Tahrir that has ties with Al-Qaeda recently held a conference at a hotel in Chicago. The name of the conference was, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/barracknow.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/islamic-conference-in-chicago.html\">The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat has been insisting for some time that Islamists view liberalism and political correctness as a tool to help them achieve their goals. He sees the conference in Chicago as yet another example.<\/p>\n<p>Shoebat insists that if America is to win the war on terror, it must cease waging war on a tactic that its enemies use and more plainly identify the enemy using them.<\/p>\n<p>He points to an interesting contrast between a group with alleged ties to the enemies of the United States and how American citizens are sometimes treated. &#8220;Here you have a group sympathetic to the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi holding a conference at a hotel in Chicago, yet local authorities all across this country have been issued a DHS report warning them of right-wing extremists. This is what happens when political correctness trumps truth. You have absurd realities like this rearing its head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shoebat is very familiar with Chicago, having spent time there training with other Muslims before converting to Christianity in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Bethlehem, Walid&#8217;s grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd&#8217;s Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>As a young man, Shoebat became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel for which he was imprisoned in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Walid studied the Bible in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul and disclose the truth about Israel and the Jews, Walid shed his former life and work as a software engineer. He has relentlessly set out to expose the evils of Islamic fundamentalism to people throughout the world, communicating his message to churches, synagogues, civic groups, and the media.<\/p>\n<p>Walid is the author of several best-selling books, including &#8220;Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat It&#8221; (co-authored with Joel Richardson).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen as former terrorist Walid Shoebat presents an insider&#8217;s view of the evils of Islamic fundamentalism and his passion to present the truth about Israel.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,39,12,19,14],"tags":[984,983,123,985,993,982,989,987,986,981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}