'Ex-terrorist' rakes in homeland security bucks
From Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, CNN Special Investigations Unit
Walid Shoebat had a blunt message for the roughly 300 South Dakota police officers and sheriff's deputies who gathered to hear him warn about the dangers of Islamic radicalism.
Terrorism and Islam are inseparable, he tells them. All U.S. mosques should be under scrutiny.
"All Islamic organizations in America should be the No. 1 enemy. All of them," he says.
It's a message Shoebat is selling based on his own background as a Palestinian-American convert to conservative Christianity. Born in the West Bank, the son of an American mother, he says he was a Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist in his youth who helped firebomb an Israeli bank in Bethlehem and spent time in an Israeli jail.
That billing helps him land speaking engagements like a May event in Rapid City -- a forum put on by the state Office of Homeland Security, which paid Shoebat $5,000 for the appearance. He's a darling on the church and university lecture circuit, with his speeches, books and video sales bringing in $500,000-plus in 2009, according to tax records.
"Being an ex-terrorist myself is to understand the mindset of a terrorist," Shoebat told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
But CNN reporters in the United States, Israel and the Palestinian territories found no evidence that would support that biography. Neither Shoebat nor his business partner provided any proof of Shoebat's involvement in terrorism, despite repeated requests...
SEE: 'Ex-terrorist' rakes in homeland security bucks (CNN)
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/11/terrorism.expert/index.html
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quran8:37 [This is] so that Allah may distinguish the wicked from the good and place the wicked some of them upon others and heap them all together and put them into Hell. It is those who are the losers
drissmao10 2 weeks ago
quran8:36 Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allah . So they will spend it; then it will be for them a [source of] regret; then they will be overcome. And those who have disbelieved - unto Hell they will be gathered
drissmao10 2 weeks ago
Just a money making scam artist!!! Cunning guy!
choudhyofpakistan 1 month ago
@znatim how can you respect him? lies, deceit and hatred is spread from his mouth.
Wallahi, from the first time I saw this guy's speech. I immediately knew something was really wrong about him. this video just sums it up.
his punishment will be just.
zeshy999 1 month ago
ayan hirsi2 she is lier2 everything she said is lie she married her family memper
in canada-and all her lie is money machin imean sell boooks
addan76 1 month ago
christians give your money asshol's terr-is alway terr-
so give your money is more become terrorist
addan76 1 month ago
us-muslims we new this imean this is no new to us-
this guy ayan hirsi ali all are money machin-
addan76 1 month ago
hahahahah way to go walid
thats remind me of the saudi student who sells $ 7000000 dinosaur to American
drlattte 1 month ago
Liars can be seen from their faces, as they're uncomfortable about the lies which they tell, they're turning their heads and eyes, around and around all the time. Ignorance can only be repelled with knowledge, knowledge is a cure for humanity so search for it, don't be lazy about knowing the truth.
ThePatientMuslim 1 month ago
by the way: at 1:20 he has read the Quranic verse wrongly, an Arab who read Quran wouldn't read it like that, it means he was never a practicing Muslim far from being moudjahid activist.
znatim 1 month ago