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===Response by Shoebat=== |
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On April 9, 2008, Shoebat responded to the [[Jerusalem Post]]'s skepticism on that paper's [[op-ed]] page. He wrote that the Jerusalem Post had been duped and that the sources they interviewed who disputed his own account of his upbringing, including his relatives, were themselves involved in terrorism, and want to see him discredited. He also claims that reporter did not interview reputable witnesses offered to him who would confirm the bombing operation of Bank Leumi.<ref name = WS>{{cite news | last = Shoebat | first = Walid | title = Right of Reply: I ''was'' a terrorist | publisher = [[Jerusalem Post]] | date = April 9, 2008 |url= http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=97668 | accessdate = March 23, 2010}}</ref> |
On April 9, 2008, Shoebat responded to the [[Jerusalem Post]]'s skepticism on that paper's [[op-ed]] page. He wrote that the Jerusalem Post had been duped and that the sources they interviewed who disputed his own account of his upbringing, including his relatives, were themselves involved in terrorism, and want to see him discredited. He also claims that reporter did not interview reputable witnesses offered to him who would confirm the bombing operation of Bank Leumi.<ref name = WS>{{cite news | last = Shoebat | first = Walid | title = Right of Reply: I ''was'' a terrorist | publisher = [[Jerusalem Post]] | date = April 9, 2008 |url= http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=97668 | accessdate = March 23, 2010}}</ref> |
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Walid Shoebat has put a response on his website www.shoebat.com that goes as follows. |
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"EVIDENCE TO MY STORY |
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The litany of accusation in the media came in sequence. First I was a Lebanese Falangist. When this was proven false, then came the denial that I ever have lived in Israel. When this was proven false, then I was never in prison in Jerusalem. When this was proven false, then I was a Zionist agent doing this for money. Author Chris Hedges claims without shame that my story is a “fraud” without a single bit of confirming evidence to support his position. |
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You will find several articles attempting to discredit my story and my claims, none of which can respond to what you will find here.. My story is a litany of personal accounts from imprisonment, an attempted lynching, a failed bombing operation of an Israeli bank, a mother that was not permitted to leave to her country (U.S), an education on anti-Semitism, terror support in the U.S, and a connection to family well linked to terrorism. These are all documented in my book “Why We Want To Kill You,” yet rest assured that nothing can be refuted in an entire book no matter what my critics write. Everything I stated is true. These attempts to discredit my story came through my Muslim family and relatives who are either involved in aiding and abetting terrorism, financial terrorism, or actual bombings in Israel. Here they are case by case: |
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PROVIDING MORAL AND LEGAL SUPPORT TO |
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AL-QAEDA HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH |
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1—Jawad Younis, whose brother Kamal Younis. Evidence of my connection to these are public: |
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“This civilian journalist spoke with one of Walid's many Palestinian American relatives, Kamal Younis. Kamal had checked his facts with other relatives and everyone of them agreed that, "Walid's entire biography is a manufactured fabrication. His handlers have taken one point and have twisted it and built up a fictional story." (WeAreWideAwake, amateur journalist Eileen Fleming, 2/3/2008) |
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http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=791&Itemid=197 |
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These were waiting inline to testify against me to the liberal media forgot to inform the media that his brother Jawad Younis was exiled by Israel for involvement in a terror ring, in fact he can be linked to supporting Hezbollah. When this fact was brought to the attention of Eileen Fleming, an amateur journalist who openly supports Hezbollah, in one article stated Kamal’s denial: |
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“On Feb. 26, I phoned Walid's relative Kamal Younis the good news that his name was mentioned [by Shoebat] from the King Center stage and filled him in that his brother Jawad is another supposed terrorist.. Kamal laughed, "Walid is a master of spin! He takes one iota of truth and creates a fiction!” (Arabisto) |
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Eileen is an American that doesn’t know Arabic, and as a typical amateur in journalism or Middle East expertise believed Kamal. Jawad Younis the Al-Qaeda representative lawyer can be confirmed to have been extradited from Israel and his connection supporting terrorism up in the highest level can be proven to anyone. A letter to Hassan Nassrallah (Hezbollah’s leader himself) can be viewed on: |
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http://lejardinsecretdugeneralbenali.blogspot.com/ |
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Jawad Younis writes: |
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"To His Excellency Mr. Nasrallah Secretary General of Hezbullah the Victorious by the will of Allah …We grip our hands with you, and all the Jihadists for the cause of Allah…as you lunge with your souls for the battle of the [Islamic] Umma (nation), to fight the demonic forces of America and Zionism, the sons of the great Satan." Signed as #4 of this delegation Jawad Younis. (Letter of support to Nassrallah, dated 7/19/2006, published July 27th, 2006) |
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Jawad was the defense attorney of Abu Zubaydah of Al-Qaeda who in fact was Jawad's client in absentia. Abu Zubayda is in U.S custody and later confessed against Khalid Sheik Muhammad the mastermind of operation 9/11 which killed 3000 Americans. |
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http://www.muslimedia.com/ARCHIVES/oaw00/jor-death.htm |
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Kamal clearly lied to the media regarding his brother Jawad’s involvement, a thing known to everyone in our community back home, and while Jawad defends Al-Qaeda operatives, Kamal is an interpreter, I challenge him to find inconsistencies in my translation of his brother’s letter. Kamal’s expertise as an Arab translation is listed on his website: |
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http://www.accuratearabictranslation.com/kamal.html |
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It is astonishing to even find out that Kamal assisted in interpreting secret FBI recorded phone conversations in the Sami Al-Aryan’s case: |
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http://www.accuratearabictranslation.com/TESTIMONIALS.html |
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His associate Khaled M. Diab “Dr. Diab worked on Research and management in the defense industry in the areas of Communication, Command and Control and Information Sciences. His work involved some top secret projects.” |
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http://www.accuratearabictranslation.com/diab.html |
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Eileen Fleming, the amateur journalist and the Hamas pawn who is tricked by Younis and Co, seem to have no problem to lend moral support for the family of terrorist and suicide bomber Ayyat Al-Akhras and even proudly travels to Deheisheh refugee camp to lend such support: |
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“Imad Younis, the coordinator for Islamic Relief of the West Bank, had arranged for the group to meet the family of the first female suicide bomber, Ayyat Lufti Al Akhrass in her families’ home in Dheisheh refugee camp.” (Eileene Fleming, We Are Wide Awake, June 19th, 2005) |
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http://wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=424&Itemid=138 |
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2—Imad Younis, the coordinator for Islamic Relief of the West Bank, had arranged for the group to meet the family of the first female suicide bomber, Ayyat Lutfi Al Akhrass. Both Imad and Adnan Younis his brother were active with me in the attempt to pressure the United States to release Ziad Abu Eian a terrorist who killed 3 civilian Jews in Israel. |
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CONNECTION TO TERRORISTS |
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AND SUICIDE BOMBERS |
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My connection to a family of terrorists is iron-clad. Evidence of family connection is publicly documented information: |
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3—Arin Ahmed Shoebat (Shu’aybat) another family member was part of a suicide bombing operation in Rishon Letzion, when her colleague Mahmoud blew himself and killed innocent Jews. Anyone can google “Arin Ahmed” and find this. Even the name in Arabic (Arin Shoebat (Shu’aybat) from Beit Sahur). She was visited by Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer in prison, the story can be found on: |
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http://www.altareekh.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35122&page=2 |
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4—My cousin Raed Khaleel Awadallah Shoebat (Shu’aybat) was killed during a terror operation to blow up Jews in Ben Yehuda street in Jerusalem . His martyrdom record can even be accessed on the web: |
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http://www.ajjur.net/shuhada.htm |
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http://www.3jeebo4all.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2755&page=9 |
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Sure, it’s in Arabic, however, all too frequently reporters who fail to understand what the Arabs say in Arabic are quick to unjustly accuse me instead of getting an interpreter. Once you obtain (an honest) interpreter, you will find the name is clear: |
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“Raed Khaleel Awadallah Shoebat (Shu’aybat) martyred 1/2/1995.” |
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21 1/2/1995 |
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5—Mahmoud Khaleel Awadallah Shoebat (Shua’ybat), and brother of Raed was also sentenced for life for bombing and attempting to kill Jews then released through an international deal. He is now free, willing and ready to testify against me that I was never a terrorist, yet he will deny that he ever was one himself. |
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6—Ibrahim Khaleel Awadallah Shoebat (Shua’ybat). Ibrahim is a pro-Hamas educator who teaches Islamic studies on the Temple Mount.. Ibrahim drowned in the Mediterranean and was rescued by a Jew while two of his colleagues died. Yet, this rescue by a Jew was never appreciated, in fact it is denied by the family. |
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E2DB1438F933A25752C1A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 |
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CASTING DOUBTS |
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Anyone can view from such damaging attempts that even lend additional credibility to my story and claims. My own family testified mixing truth with lies: |
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"In 1977 Walid was caught distributing Palestinian flags and was arrested and held for about two weeks in Mascubia Prison, until his mother went to the Embassy and got him released…..But, when he was in jail he met someone who invited him to join a group against Israel. In 1977 Walid and his friends put packages behind a bank, but there were no explosives in it.” (Eileen Fleming, a very stupid journalist writing for Opednews, Feb 2, 2008) |
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One can read through the lines, it’s true that I was in prison and was involved with a terror group by my family’s own words. Don’t get caught up with the words “there were no explosives in [the package]” Why would my family remember an event in 1977 in which I planted a package without explosives? Why remember such an uneventful event? This attempt to discredit me is nothing new, yet these stories were never posted on mainstream media. The New York Times also ran an article which has not a single line of evidence, keep in mind, the credentials of that paper are more questionable then my story. |
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They tried to smear McCain and they failed. No serious media believed the smear campaign in that paper which included CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations) as an accepted verifiable source? In fact this article written by the New York Times was clearly refuted by terror expert Steve Emerson: |
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http://grizzlygroundswell.com/archives/1401 |
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Instead of focusing on my family’s denied terror connection and financial fraud, the media wants you to focus more on our finances vy claiming that we are not a charitable organization. In fact F.F.M.U (Foundation For Middle East Understanding) was set up as a 501C3 to receive donations, yet the media opts to include only the business aspect of our firm (Top Executive Media) that deals with our book sales and speaking fees. It is not a crime to collect pay for speaking fees and book sales. Voluntary activism in our opinion is less effective. |
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For serious journalists who want to interview real witnesses that can testify to my bombing operation in Bethlehem, we will be glad to provide this, just make your request in writing. What is amazing is that we offered such testimonies and these offers were turned down. If you find yourself with a duty to refute my story, I challenge you contact us, and we will gladly take the challenge. |
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For additional evidence on documents that proves most aspects to my claims you can go to Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Forum. Mr. Pipes is a well respected and reputable expert analyst who examined much of my records--my family’s American relationship with Winston Churchill, land deeds, birth certificates, newspaper reports on family connection to terror and such. Mr.. Pipes confirmed my credibility http://www.danielpipes..org/comments/27999 |
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“Daniel Pipes replies: May 18, 2006 response: Walid Shoebat took the time to visit me in my office today and to show me proofs that his life story is a true one. I accept that it is.” |
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If you doubt Mr. Pipes testimony, I will be glad to disclose such documents to an arbiter of both our choice and yours, on the condition you pay the expense and costs, and that this firm keeps my records confidential. |
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To finalize this issue, please acknowledge that I have addressed audiences at numerous government agencies in the FBI and Counter Terrorism Task Force. These agencies always scrutinize my credentials and background, and they have cleared me each and every time. My advisory board is comprised of U.S. Generals and other senior officers from the U.S. Military. It is a shame that so many fall into this smear campaign made by journalists against my character and credentials." No response from the Jerusalem Post has been issued to his response as of yet. |
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== Bibliography== |
== Bibliography== |
Revision as of 17:55, 2 May 2010
Template:Muslims and controversies Walid Shoebat (Arabic: وليد شويبات) is a Palestinian immigrant to the United States. He was born to a Palestinian father and American mother, and is a former PLO militant.[1] This description has been questioned by some Middle East scholars.[2] Shoebat came to public attention by becoming an ardent critic of radical Islam, and supporter of Israel.
Shoebat's account of his life
According to the biography on his official website, Shoebat was born in Bethlehem, the grandson of the Mukhtar of Beit Sahour, whom Shoebat describes as an associate of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni. Shoebat's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini.[citation needed] Shoebat joined the Palestine Liberation Organization in his youth, and was involved in attacks against Israel.
In interviews, he confessed to being involved in a bombing at Bank Leumi in Bethlehem.[1]
Upon his release, Shoebat continued his anti-Israeli activism until he emigrated to the United States, where he became involved with the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago.[citation needed] Shortly afterwards Walid worked as a software engineer and became a US citizen. In 1993, Walid converted to Christianity after studying the Jewish Bible for 6 months in response to a challenge from his wife, initially trying to persuade her into converting to Islam.[citation needed]
Activism
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 and has been portrayed as an expert witness on a number of documentaries on Islamism.[3]
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 Germanys, if these people get their way."[4]
He is the founder of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, an organization that claims to "work to fight for Israel in the Media [sic]." [5]
Controversy
Critics[who?] have questioned Shoebat's story as well as those of other alleged converts from Islamic terrorism, saying they are evangelical Christians falsely claiming to be former Muslim terrorists. Academic professors and others who have heard Shoebat and the two other evangelists he sometimes lectures with (Zachariah Anani and Kamal Saleem), complain they are too old to have been recruited for Islamic terror as teenagers since the ideology of Islamic jihad attacks "only became prevalent in the late 1980s," and the men are all middle age.[citation needed]
The Jerusalem Post also disputed the authenticity of Shoebat's account of his terrorist history. According to the article, Shoebat claimed to have bombed the Bank Leumi, but that statement has been rejected both by Bank Leumi, which claims no such attack took place, and by Shoebat's own relatives. The Post also claimed that Shoebat was unable to pinpoint the date on which he had committed the attack. The article repeatedly refers to Shoebat's financial benefit from his role of being a former terrorist, of having been Muslim, and now having rejected Islam for Christianity. While Shoebat recalled having been pressured by teachers to adopt an extreme Islamic philosophy, and he and his classmates had been "indoctrinated as children to believe that the fires of hell were an ever-present reality" and that his only salvation was to "die in a martyrdom operation – to die for Islam", the Jerusalem Post article reported that his uncle, who still lives in Bethlehem and has terrorist ties, said that he received an ideologically "mild" education in which religion played little part. The article also reports that Shoebat's relatives share the name "Shoebat" despite unverified reports that he claimed that it is an assumed name, that Shoebat has contradicted himself (telling the Post that he didn't know whether the Bank Leumi bombing was reported in the media despite stating four years earlier that it had been), that the Walid Shobat Foundation is not registered as a charity in Pennsylvania, as Shobat claimed he thought it was (Shobat countered that it "was registered under a different name, but that he was not aware of the details, which are handled by his manager"), etc.[1]
Response by Shoebat
On April 9, 2008, Shoebat responded to the Jerusalem Post's skepticism on that paper's op-ed page. He wrote that the Jerusalem Post had been duped and that the sources they interviewed who disputed his own account of his upbringing, including his relatives, were themselves involved in terrorism, and want to see him discredited. He also claims that reporter did not interview reputable witnesses offered to him who would confirm the bombing operation of Bank Leumi.[6]
Bibliography
- Shoebat has written several online books including "Dear Muslim, Let Me Tell You Why I Believed" and "Israel, And The World's Mock Trial”, where he intimates the presence of anti-Semitism in Islamic and secular, Western countries.[7]
- 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
- Why we want to kill you
- In Satan’s Footsteps
- The Forgotten Ally
- Arabs Speak Frankly
See also
Documentaries Involving/Featuring Walid Shoebat
- From The River to the Sea[8]
- First Comes Saturday Then Comes Sunday[9]
- The Forsaken Promise[10]
- Walid Shoebat: The Culture of Death[11]
- The Silent Exodus[12]
- Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West[13]
- Islam: What the West Needs to Know[14]
References
- ^ a b c Luyken, Jorg (March 30, 2008). "The Palestinian 'terrorist' turned Zionist". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
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(help) - ^ MacFarquhar, Neil (February 7, 2008). "Speakers at Academy Said to Make False Claims". New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
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(help) - ^ Shoebat's autobiography on Shoebat.com
- ^ Wayne Kopping & Raphael Shore (2005). Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.[dead link]
- ^ Make a donation to Walid Shoebat foundation; Justice for Israel and the Jewish people
- ^ Shoebat, Walid (April 9, 2008). "Right of Reply: I was a terrorist". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "Books by Walid Shoebat". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "WalidShoebat.com". Shoebat.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
External links
- Shoebat.com The home page of Walid Shoebat
- 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[dead link]
- Live Blogging Walid Shoebat in Milwaukee
- A Terrorist Who Turned To Love by Jamie Glazov at FrontPage Magazine
- Critique of Claims of Walid Shoebat
- Former terrorist fuels controversy
- Pro-Israel ex-terrorist denied entry into Canada
- Walid Shoebat tells his story to hundreds in Winnipeg[dead link]
- Former terrorist speaks against violence[dead link]
- Former terrorist has changed his ways[dead link]
- YouTube link to the Fox News interview
- Shoebat: From Palestinian Terrorist to Lover of Zion?
- Walid Shoebat interviewed on Dr. Blogstein's Radio Happy Hour
Videos
- Walid Shoebat: God's War on Terror TV Broadcast on WVCY-TV
- Walid Shoebat – A Palestinian's Journey
- Critical Study of 'Walid Shoebat'
- Walid Shoebat on Fox News[dead link]
- Interview on God's Learning Channel
- List of Walid Shoebat online media[dead link]
- Walid Shoebat, Zak Anani and Ibrahim Abdullah on CN8, subtitled in French
- The Mind of a terrorist[dead link]
- Interview of 3 ex-terrorists
- Making of a Martyr Bonus Features – Walid Shoebat: Part 1, Part 2.
- Walid Shoebat – "Islam Prophecied In The Bible" (7 videos) – Koinonia Institute's 2008 Strategic Perspectives conference in Southern California hosted by Dr. Chuck Missler
- Walid Shoebat – Major series (22 videos) "What The Bible says about Islam" Southern California Prophecy Conference 2008
- Walid Shoebat – Exposed