PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – Military experts often say that to defeat your enemy, you need to first know him. When it comes to the war against radical Islam, Walid Shoebat and Zachariah Anani don’t just know the enemy – they were the enemy.

As a young man, Shoebat was a member of the
Palestine Liberation Organization , a terrorist group
headed by Yasser Arafat.

“Our mission at first – we were growing up in the
West Bank – was: kill as many Jews as you can,” Shoebat said.

Anani belonged to several Islamic terrorist groups in Lebanon. By 14, he had already committed his first murder, and he was just getting started.

“Within four years, I had 223 points, which means
223 kills,” Anani recalled. “And two-thirds of them by daggers. I was trained in what we call body combat.”

Growing up in the Middle East, Shoebat and Anani
were taught to wage jihad against all non-Muslims,
especially Jews. For years, they did that.

And that makes their transformation into Christian
witnesses for Israel all the more amazing. The two
men have devoted their lives to speaking out against radical Islam and standing up for the Jewish state.

“I began to understand that I was really on
quicksand. I was really sinking deep. The truth was
not in the Koran. The Koran does not have any
prophecies, does not have any predictive prophecies telling us the future in such detail. The Bible does,” Shoebat explained. CBN News caught up with Shoebat and Anani last month in Philadelphia, where they shared their stories at an event called “Three Ex-Terrorists Speak Out.”

If you think this sounds dangerous, you’re right. They were supposed to be joined by a third former
terrorist named Ibrahim Abdallah. But Abdallah, also a convert to Christianity, backed out at the last
minute because Muslim family members threatened to kidnap his children if he participated.

Shoebat said that’s par for the course.

“Islam is like the song ‘Hotel California,’” said
Shoebat. “You can check in, but you can’t check out.
You can check out if you want – in a coffin.”

But Anani and Shoebat did check out, leaving years
of cult-like indoctrination behind. Anani’s grandfather and great-grandfather were both high-ranking
Islamic clerics in Lebanon. By the time he was 13,
“Zack” had joined his first terrorist group – with the
full approval of his family.

The group was called “The Youth of Ali,” named after the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s cousin.

Anani said he became a killing machine. At times he even targeted fellow Muslims. He told us of one
occasion when a Muslim tried to wake him in the
middle of the night to pray.

“I said, in a very challenging way, ‘You come and
wake me up at 3 o’clock, I’ll shoot you,’” Anani said.
“Three o’clock, he knocks on my door. I pull out my
pistol from under my pillow, look at the door,
measure where his chest is, and then shoot him
through the door and go back to sleep again.”

Shoebat also hailed from a prominent family. His
grandfather was close to the grand mufti of
Jerusalem –who worked closely with Adolf Hitler and
the Nazi regime. In Palestinian schools, young
Shoebat learned that Jesus and Moses were
Palestinian revolutionaries and that the Jews’ day of
judgment was coming.

“Most Americans think that terrorism starts by some group coming to recruit you. The recruitment already happens at the mosque,” Shoebat explained. “It
already happens at the school. They’re already part
of the whole system of education. You don’t need to
recruit. The people are willing souls ready to die for
martyrdom, or ready to die for Palestine. Ready to die for the cause of Allah.” Shoebat was one of them.

“The assurance for salvation in Islam is via
martyrdom,” he said. “That’s the whole message.
The Koran clearly stated it: ‘Do not think that the
ones who die in the cause of Allah and martyrdom
are dead, but are with Allah receiving their
blessings.’ This is why my cousin went to his suicide
mission and died. And my aunt Fatima, in the streets
of Bethlehem, was passing out candy … because her
son was now a martyr.”

After spending time in prison for attacking Israelis,
Shoebat was ready to carry out missions for the PLO. On one run, he planted a bomb at a bank in
Bethlehem right next to the Church of the Nativity.

“As I was walking away from the bank, the Christian
Nativity church – where Jesus was born – I heard this big explosion behind me,” Shoebat said. “And I ran away. And I was never caught, and they never found out. And I never confessed these things until I
became a Christian in 1993.”

The same Christian faith that Anani and Shoebat had once wanted to crush would eventually change their lives. After a chance encounter with a Christian preacher on a street in Lebanon, Anani left Islam and terrorism at the age of 17. His family reacted by disowning him.

“My father took the small Bible from my hand and
shredded it, and slapped me two or three times and
stepped backward — thinking I was [going to] jump
him,” Anani recalled. “I said, ‘Nope. You hit me or you beat me, and I won’t change a thing. I’ll be a
Christian.’”

Outside his home, things were even worse. He was
dragged to the local mosque, beaten and
excommunicated. There were also several attempts
on his life.

“I was shot. I was knifed. I was poisoned. I was hit
with a car. I was hit with sticks,” Anani said.

But Anani refused to be intimidated or be swayed
from his new faith.

“It took long years to study the Bible and the
Christian faith,” he said. “But in the beginning, like
Paul said, I accepted Christ as an indigent. And
wisdom came later on.”

Shoebat left Islam in 1993 after his wife, who was
already a Christian, challenged him to prove the
Bible wrong. He couldn’t.

“I began to understand the story of the fall of man,
went all the way down to Revelation,” Shoebat said.
“And by the time I got to the prophets, I was
fascinated to study Zechariah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah: ‘For I am God and there is no other – for I am God and there is none like Me.'”

Shoebat’s new-found faith cost him his father and his siblings. He now lives in an undisclosed location,
where he heads the Walid Shoebat Foundation, a pro-Israel group. He’s also written a book detailing his journey called Why I Left Jihad.

But he’s disappointed that his message hasn’t been
well received by some in the West.

“Here’s the ironic thing. The day that I hated Jews, I
wanted to kill them, I wanted to blow them up – I was called a freedom fighter by the world and by the press. The day that I turned around and said, you know what? I don’t hate Jews, I don’t hate blacks, I love everybody – I love everybody equally; that’s when I became a racist. Go figure,” Shoebat said.

Anani now lives in North America, where he is
director of evangelism for an international ministry.
His time in the West hasn’t always gone smoothly
either. He has been assaulted and seen his life
threatened by Muslims in the United States and
Canada.

Shoebat said the best way to counter this jihad
violence is as easy as turning a page.

“We need to send out Christian education, the truth
from the Bible throughout the Muslim world,”
Shoebat said. “And if we send out the message and
tell them what the Bible already foretells about the
outcome of what’s going to happen to the Muslims, if they can understand that and see it clearly, then that faith, that false faith that they have their hopes on, is shaken.”

The ex-terrorists know their message is not politically correct. Sure enough, they have had trouble getting coverage from the mainstream media. But they say they will continue to tell the truth about what really drives Islamic terrorism.

As for their safety? They are leaving that in God’s
hands.

http://m.jpost.com/Features/The-Palestinian-terrorist-turned-Zionist

Even Israeli press calls him a fraud

God bless Walid Shoebat and Zechariah Anani.

Shoebat claims that he threw a bomb at Bank Leumi, an Israeli bank, in Bethlehem.

But the police and the Tel Aviv headquarters of Bank Leumi have no record of a firebombing at its now-demolished Bethlehem branch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJN00dBhZVk

Shoebat exposed as a fraud on cnn

So I ask what is your intention of deciept, Israeli and American media have proved him a liar many times over.

hockeyoilers:
Shoebat claims that he threw a bomb at Bank Leumi, an Israeli bank, in Bethlehem.

But the police and the Tel Aviv headquarters of Bank Leumi have no record of a firebombing at its now-demolished Bethlehem branch.

Stop talking rubbish, the incident happened in the seventies almost forty years ago. A lot of records from that time are not well documented or preserved as we now have in the I.T age. In nigeria today I doubt if our police can provide documents of crimes that happened five years ago talkless of forty years ago.

hockeyoilers:
http://m.jpost.com/Features/The-Palestinian-terrorist-turned-Zionist

Even Israeli press calls him a fraud

What nonsense is this one saying? Islamic scammers!!!! Better go grab christ.

You underestimate Israeli record keeping. Even the Jewish media outed him as a fraud! What is confusing here.

Surely you're trolling , everyone knows Israel busted his lies back in 2008 lol

hockeyoilers:
You underestimate Israeli record keeping. Even the Jewish media outed him as a fraud! What is confusing here.

Surely you're trolling , everyone knows Israel busted his lies back in 2008 lol

Kontinu deluding yourself, millions of muslims are now renouncing islam globally based on his efforts alone.

annunaki2:


Stop talking rubbish, the incident happened in the seventies almost forty years ago. A lot of records from that time are not well documented or preserved as we now have in the I.T age. In nigeria today I doubt if our police can provide documents of crimes that happened five years ago talkless of forty years ago.

the convert being alive today,and telling his real past lifestyle is an evidence that no one should doubt....believe it or not,Jesus is the only saviour.

annunaki2:


Kontinu deluding yourself, millions of muslims are now renouncing islam globally based on his efforts alone.

Show us proof of ' millions '.

Alhumdullah

hockeyoilers:
Alhumdullah

fool,Religion is not by population... God is not concerned about your numbers,but about your spirituality....when God destroyed people in the time of prophet Noah(nuhu), God only left nuhu and his families..... When God destroyed sodom and ghomorah,He also left only the family of 'Lot'..... When gideon wanted to wage war against his enemies,God told him to reduce the numbers of his army..... God do not follow crowds...and that is why the book of proverbs stated, "i will rather prefer to listen to the words of a wise man,than to listen to words of a crowd of clowns"

hockeyoilers:
Alhumdullah

See, the new scamming method you people are using to cover your killings with is not working.
Since you guys have discovered that people are grabbing christ numerously as I have done, you are starting a new method of making noise and fraud postings, still Jesus is now using a new most powerful method of revealing his real self to muslims. Read about the recent islamic terrorist that accepted christ.

Better join our boat as I have denounced and have joined christ

promisechuks:

See, the new scamming method you people are using to cover your killings with is not working.
Since you guys have discovered that people are grabbing christ numerously as I have done, you are starting a new method of making noise and fraud postings, still Jesus is now using a new most powerful method of revealing his real self to muslims. Read about the recent islamic terrorist that accepted christ.

Better join our boat as I have denounced and have joined christ

Brother didn't Jesus peace be upon him teach turn the other cheek. You see a splinter in my eye , yet you have a log in yours. Despite your hate rant , I love you for the sake of Allah.

hockeyoilers:


Brother didn't Jesus peace be upon him teach turn the other cheek. You see a splinter in my eye , yet you have a log in yours. Despite your hate rant , I love you for the sake of Allah.

My beloved in christ(who doesn't know that he is a beloved in christ), all this infos flying around are not rants or mere stories, they are far more real please.

But I understand your plight- Death threatening life from your muslim brothers and sisters.

But if you are willing and sincere, God will make everything to become new and easy in you life.

promisechuks:

My beloved in christ(who doesn't know that he is a beloved in christ), all this infos flying around are not rants or mere stories, they are far more real please.

But I understand your plight- Death threatening life from your muslim brothers and sisters.

But if you are willing and sincere, God will make everything to become new and easy in you life.

Huh what plight? I'm OK alhumdullah. No one has threatened me. I've not received death threats lol alhumdullah.
Peace.