Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat ( Arabic وليد شعيبات, DMG Walīd Šuʿaibāt ) is a former PLO activist and is now a critic of Islam .

Life

Shoebat is an American of American-Arab descent. According to his own statements, his father was Jordanian and his mother American, who met at Humboldt State College , Arcata , in the US state of California. Not far from there, in Eureka, a city of around 40,000 inhabitants, his maternal great-grandfather is said to have been mayor.

By his own admission he is a former PLO - a terrorist . Shoebat gained public attention in the English-speaking world when it publicly criticized Islam and sided with Israel and advocated an end to the crisis in the Middle East .

He is also the founder of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, an organization that campaigns against anti-Semitism and for peace in the Middle East. The Shoebat, which converted from Islam to evangelical Christianity in 1993 , has appeared frequently on English-speaking television as a guest on programs on Islam and terrorism (e.g. CNN , MSNBC , CBS and the BBC ).

Criticism of Shoebat's credibility

Shoebat alleged that he carried out an explosive attack on Bank Leumi, an Israeli bank in Bethlehem . A 2008 article in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post wrote that such an attack had never occurred at that time. Shoebat's uncle, who is said to have been involved, also denied this attack. According to the Washington Post (2010) article by Omar Sacirbeys , such an attack was never reported. The Jerusalem Post article also highlights two contradicting statements by Shoebat: in 2010, he said that he had been in hiding for three days after the attack and had not heard any news. In 2004, he told the UK's Sunday Telegraph that he had heard on the news that night that no one had been injured.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jorg Luyken: The Palestinian 'terrorist' turned Zionist . In: Jerusalem Post , March 30, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2010. 
  2. ↑ Omar Sacirbey, " Skeptics challenge life stories Offered by high-profile Muslim Converts to Christianity ," Washington Post , June 26 of 2010.
  3. ↑ Walid Shoebat: Right of Reply: I was a terrorist . In: Jerusalem Post , April 9, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME Shoebat, Walid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian PLO activist and critic of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century