Walid's Testimony:

My name is Walid . I was born in Bethlehem, Israel. On the day that I was born it was one of the
holiest days to Islam, the birthday of the Muslim
prophet Mohammad (Al-Mauled Al-Nabawi). This
was an honor to my father. For that, he named me
Walid which relates to the Arabic word (Mauled)
and in English (The Birth) to always remember the birthday of the Muslim prophet. My father was a Palestinian Muslim who taught
English and Islamic studies in the Holy Land. My
mother was an American who married my father
during his studies in the United States in the year of
1956.

Fearing the impact of the American way of life for
their two children and while my mother was
pregnant with me, my parents left to live in Israel in
1960 which was called Jordan at that time. When
they arrived to Bethlehem I was born. As my father
changed jobs, we moved to Saudi Arabia, then back to the Holy Land -- this time, to the lowest
place on earth, Jericho. I can not forget the first song I learned in school
just before the Six Day War titled "Arabs Our
Beloved and Jews Our Dogs." I used to wonder at
that time who the Jews were but with the rest of the
kids, I repeated the words without any knowledge
of their meaning.

As I grew up in the Holy Land, I lived through
several battles between the Arabs and the Jews.
The first battle (while we lived in Jericho) was the
Six Day War when the Jews captured old Jerusalem
and the rest of Palestine. This was a great
disappointment to Arabs and Muslims worldwide. The American Council in Jerusalem came just before
the war to evacuate all the Americans in the area.
Since my mother was an American, they offered us
assistance but my father refused and turned them
down because he loved his country. I still
remember many things during the war -- the noise of the bombing and shelling that went on day and
night for six days, the looting of stores and houses
by the Arabs in Jericho and people running to cross
the Jordan River from fear of the Israelis.

The war was called the Six Day War because it was
won in six days and on the seventh day a Rabbi by
the name of Goren blew the ram's horn on the
Wailing Wall in Jerusalem declaring the victory.
Many Jews claim that this was a parallel to Joshua
when he went around the walls of Jericho six times, then on the seventh day seven times, and on
that day the priests blew the trumpets and
everyone shouted with one voice and took the city.
To my father in Jericho, it seemed that the walls had
crumbled on him. During the war he was always
listening to the Jordanian radio station. He used to say that the Arabs were winning the war, but he
was listening to the wrong station. The Israeli
station was announcing the truth of their soon
coming victory. Instead my father chose to believe
the Arabs who claimed that the Israelis were
promoting propaganda.

Later on, we moved back to Bethlehem and my
father enrolled us in an Anglican-Lutheran school
as they had a better English course. My brother,
sister and I were the only Muslims in the school.
Being half Americans, teachers would beat us and
students would laugh at us. When the Bible class started, I would leave the class and remained
outside waiting. One day, I walked in the Bible class
and the class 'bully' stood up to fight. He shouted,
"We don't want this half American and Muslim to be
here!" I refused to get out and the lady who was
teaching the class asked me to sit down. Since then, I changed the school's policy and for the first time,
the school allowed a Muslim to study the Bible. For
the next three years, I studied it despite all the
mocking. Later, my father transferred me to the Government
school where I grew in the faith of Islam. I was fed
the idea that one day, a fulfillment of an ancient
prophecy by the Muslim prophet Mohammed would
come to pass. This prophecy foretold a battle in
which the Holy Land would be recaptured and the elimination of the Jews would take place in a
massive slaughter.

This prophecy in fact is documented in
Mohammed's Book of Traditions which states the
following: "The day of judgment shall not come to pass
until a tribe of Muslims defeat a tribe of
Jews." (Narrated by Abu Hurairah, Sahih
Muslim, Hadith #6985; Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 4,
#177) When Mohammed was asked of the place this
would take place, he said: "In Jerusalem and the surrounding nations."

During my youth, like my father, I was always
tuned to Islam and what our Muslim teachers
taught. Believing in Muhammad's prophecy, I
offered my life to 'Jihad' or 'Holy War' as the only
means to obtain either victory or martyrdom. In
Islam martyrdom is the only way you can ensure salvation and enter into heaven -- especially since
Allah and his prophet Mohammed promised it. As
the Quran states it: "Do not think of whom are killed for the cause
of Allah (in a Holy War), to be dead but living
with their Lord receiving his blessing". -- Sura:
The Family of 'Imran ('Al-'Imran, verse 169)

During school riots against what we called the
Israeli occupation, I would prepare speeches,
slogans, and write anti-Israeli graffiti in an effort to
provoke students to throw rocks at the armed
Israeli soldiers. We shouted, "No peace or
negotiations with the enemy! Our blood and our souls we sacrifice to Arafat! Our blood and our
souls we sacrifice to Palestine!" and "Death to the
Zionists!" I vowed to fight my Jewish enemy believing that I
was doing God's will on earth. I remained true to
my word as I participated in many riots against the
Israeli army, always trying to inflict harm to them by
all means and methods I could devise. I would start
and participate in any riot I could initiate: in schools, streets, and even on the holiest place (the Temple
mount site) in Jerusalem called by Arabs (Al-Masjid
Al-Aqsa). All through high school I would always
be one of the first to provoke a riot.

Many others got involved in terror tactics against
the Jews using bombs and armed assaults on Jews
in an attempt to force them to leave Israel. But they
never could pluck them out. Nothing could change my heart, I could only die or
a miracle needed to happen. The simplest way to
describe myself is that I was one of those one
would view on CNN throwing rocks and Molotov
cocktails in the days of the Intifada or 'The
Uprising'. I was one of these who Jews would call a terrorist. The interesting thing is that I was not only
terrorizing but I was terrorized by my beliefs which
required me to gain enough merit and good deeds
to go to heaven. But I never was sure if my good
deeds would outweigh my bad deeds in the scale
when I would be judged by God. Of course to die fighting the Jews would ease Allah's anger towards
my sin and I would then be secured a good spot in
heaven with beautiful wide-eyed women to fulfill
my most intimate desires. Either way, I won and
terror was the only way.

I remember one time in Bethlehem all viewers
clapped their hands with joy in a jam packed
theater watching the movie, "21 Days in Munich".
The moment we saw the Palestinians throwing
grenades into the helicopter killing the Israeli
athletes, hundreds of viewers yelled, "Allahu akbar!" (Allah is the greatest). This is the slogan of
joy used by Muslims for victorious events.

I remember students used to ask the teacher
during our Islamic studies in Bethlehem High
School if it was permitted for Muslims to rape the
Jewish women after we defeated them. His
response was, "The women captured in battle have
no choice in this matter, they are concubines and they need to obey their masters, having sex with
slave captives is not a ‘matter of choice for slaves’".
This in fact was written in the Koran, for it says: "Forbidden to you also are married women,
except those who are in your hand as slaves,
this is the law of Allah for you." -- Sura: The
Women (al-Nisa, verse 24) And in a different verse the Koran says: "O prophet; we allowed thee thy wives to
whom thou hast paid their dowries, and the
slaves whom thy right hand possesseth out of
the booty which Allah hath granted thee, and
the daughters of thy uncle, and of thy maternal
aunt, who fled with thee to Medina, and any believing woman who hath given herself up to
the prophet, if the prophet desired to wed her,
a privilege to thee above the rest of the
faithful". -- Sura: Confederates (al-Ahzab, verse 50)http://answering-islam.org/Testimonies/walid.html

Kai, u too get wahala o.....why not just practise ur religion and leave other's to practise theirs'......

Are u lookin for converts or what...? Whether muslims or christians, let's all learn to live together in peace and harmony, afterall on judgement day, God will tell us which one is the real religion or the fake religion......am tired of all this religious fanatizms and quarels everywhere

Una too like quarrel pass fight....#

Ab025: Kai, u too get wahala o.....why not just practise ur religion and leave other's to practise theirs'......

Are u lookin for converts or what...? Whether muslims or christians, let's all learn to live together in peace and harmony, afterall on judgement day, God will tell us which one is the real religion or the fake religion......am tired of all this religious fanatizms and quarels everywhere

Una too like quarrel pass fight....#

convert? No! What you need is salvation and it is through JESUS CHRIST only

holypower:

convert? No! What you need is salvation and it is through JESUS CHRIST only

Thank u, I ve heard u

abeg walid needs a good doze of jolt to reality. Islam is much more than palestine. as to salvation, hebrew 5 verse 7 is enough to vindicate Islam that Jesus didn't die, so you know what the pen of Paul said if hebrew 5 verse 7 is true.