Ex-Islamist responds to threat, criticism

Walid Shoebat, ex-Islamist, responds to threat, criticism over anti-terrorism talk circuit

PRB News reported last week on a Muslim student’s threat against a former terrorist's life at an Air Force Academy event in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The threat is one of many Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zak Anani deal with continually, along with criticism of their campaign to expose the world of terrorism from the perspective of being former terrorists themselves.

The Counsel on American Islamic Relations is on the critical side of the ledger, opposing the work of the three former terrorists…

Keith Davies, Executive Director of the Shoebat Foundation, said those who help Shoebat and his friends focus on all those death threats in behalf of the three men.

"The men receive threats of this nature all of time and we take each one very seriously," he said.

Shoebat spokesman Rod Mitchell said the most recent threat, “was against one of his fellow speakers that day.” [at the Air Force Academy event]

Jordanian Omar Khalifa, a student of Metro International, approached Kamal Saleem and said to him in Arabic, "you are an enemy of Islam and you must die."

Against academy requests to let the incident go unnoticed in the media, Shoebat and friends followed their policy of putting all that side of their struggle out in the public.

“He felt he had to do that; he gets death threats all the time,” Mitchell said. “That’s why all three live in hiding.”

Adding insult on injury, the CAIR campaign seeks to silence the ex-terrorists through rhetoric and political pressure.

Davies said CAIR’s stance discredits them as a moderate Muslim group – exposing their actual advocacy in favor of Islamist jihad.

“We would think they should be on the same side, on Walid’s side,” Davies said. “Instead, it seams they oppose exposure of the jihad agenda.

“If they’re against terrorism, they should be on our side,” he added…

Shoebat…confirmed he is hoping to keep PRB News and the members of the Christian Action Network informed.

He explained, “the smear campaign” by named media sources as “libelous” and “included such false statements as that we call for ‘eradicating all Muslims,’” he said.

He added the smear reporting states: “we are ‘frauds’ without a single statement of any evidence for any of such claims.”

He said falsehoods go as far as to state, “Walid’s entire biography is a manufactured fabrication,” a statement later retracted in the face of “overwhelming facts,” Shoebat added.

Shoebat’s stated history includes disputes over his birth records, doubt shed on an arrest for pro-terrorist subversive activities in Israel, his involvement in a bank threat incident and if family members collaborate his stories even though they continue to support pro-terrorist beliefs.

He presented collaboration of his claims in the form of a fact statement, and he said his documentation has been part of the thorough checks he has undertaken in the past…

Shoebat characterized the popular media’s coverage of the Air Force Academy event as focused on inaccurate statements distributed by CAIR.

"We have all been told that Islam has been hijacked by extremists,” he said. "Yet CAIR, who professes to be ‘Moderate Muslims’ are our biggest critics, and pull out all stops to try and keep our voices from being heard.

“I beg to ask the question,” he added, “if CAIR is indeed moderate as they claim, then why are they not supporting our campaign against 'extremists?’ If they are sincerely against the Fundamentalist Muslim agenda, why do they appose us?”

Shoebat has spoken at more than 50 events, including prestigious organizations and venues such as the Air Force Acedemy event – their 50th annual political issues forum.

He has also addressed audiences at numerous government agencies.

The advisory board of the Walid Shoebat Foundation is comprised of Generals and other senior officers from the U.S. Military.

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