I must admit, this book is not an easy read. It is, however, very relevant to our current events. For younger readers born in the 80s and beyond, it fills in the blanks in our history lessons as well as providing a unique perspective on Bible interpretations and the truth about Islam.
After the history lesson, beginning in chapter 6 or 7, the book caught my interest and I was unable to put it down. If you have any interest in prophecy, what Islam is all about, or you've heard Mr. Shoebat speak, then I would recommend this book.

I must admit, this book is not an easy read. It is, however, very relevant to our current events. For younger readers born in the 80s and beyond, it fills in the blanks in our history lessons as well as providing a unique perspective on Bible interpretations and the truth about Islam.
After the history lesson, beginning in chapter 6 or 7, the book caught my interest and I was unable to put it down. If you have any interest in prophecy, what Islam is all about, or you've heard Mr. Shoebat speak, then I would recommend this book.

So now that the Haaretz and Shoebat's own family has debunked him...one wonders about his penchant for prevarication...Perhaps some Muslim imams might advise Shoebat that the Jihad he ought to be fighting is against his inner demons. Victory would be coming clean as to why he has lied for so long.and so egregiously, purporting to do so out of love for Jesus.

The author is excellent with his background on Islam as he was a former Muslim. He warns the readers of the dangers of Islam. I commend him for that.

But the book is severely let down by his view of the end times. I thoroughly disagree with his view as it doesn't line up with the Bible. The author's problem is that he takes the view of the end times from 21st Century mindset instead of 1st Century mindset when the New Testament was written.

I was looking for a book with some insight into why people get into this Jihad business, but this books spends more time quoting the Koran and Bible than any real real life experiences the author may have had. very lacking

I found this book to be very informative about the history and truth behind Islam. The writer was a muslim and an active member of the PLO. His family background was high up in moslem leadership. In trying to convert his wife to Islam he compared the Koran with the Bible and was surprised to find facts about Islam in the Old Testament. It revealed to him that the god of Islam is not the same as the God of the Bible. He is now serving the one true God and as a result lost his family, property and is danger of losing his life.

With a left biased media, and politically correctness in vogue it is a warning to have realism plugged into the national consciousness. Mr. Shoebat's documentable evidences and his own personal experiences should serve as a wake up call to those who want to see Islam particularly and terrorists in general as being either maligned or misunderstood and should give a clear picture of the agenda at play in these camps. While there are "Muslum" individuals who don't participate or agree with the current agendas, those individuals are at odds with the written agendas and commandments of the Koran. People should read this and pass the book and the information and the evidences to others. In addition Mr. Shoebat addresses what it will take to change the hearts and minds of the people who are terrorizing the world as well as anyone who wishes to have a life that is salvaged for here and eternity.
Jan Rochester

Honest and humbling. This man has made the greatest effort by putting his life on the line for the sake of truth and his own peace of conscience. His writing is passionate as the subject obliges. We are talking of unreconcilable views of historical facts: what for some is white, for others will always be black; what for some is just, for others will be unjust. However, Mr. Shoebat does the noble task of carrying on with what his conscience tells him to do, and thus put his very important grain of sand into the public debate.

It is overwhelmingly encyclopedic in scope and detail. Does this make the book better or worse? As for being relevant and based on hard research and the author's first hand experiences, the book is priceless, intense, overwhelming. But if you are looking for a lighter read, a nice biography type of book this will not be it. Perhaps one day Mr. Shoebat can offer us that kind of book: a more easy read. As far as this one goes it is addressed to the doubtful, to the inquiring kind, the knowledgeable fellow who gets his info from various sources and likes to consider himself well-informed. I found it much more interesting when dwelling in personal experiences than when relating historic events from other sources and quotations.

Mr. Shoebat must be praised for his valiant testimony and personal exposure to muslim hatred, but I believe his contribution to spreading the message of love against hate would be better served with the writing of his biography. His personal testimony, if addressed to the more general public, could have a huge impact on the broader population. After all the "intellectuals" have pretty much made up their minds, and shut their eyes and hearts to the truth.

This timely book explores the reality of being a Muslim Arab coming of age in the hotly disputed West Bank. Mr Shoebat was exposed to virulent hatred of everything associated with Israel, and virtually nothing to the contrary, from early childhood to early manhood. It took the love of a good woman, and the Bible, to change his perspective on life.

Couldn't stop reading this book. Confirmed my thoughts on this subject, and explained this culture. Well worth reading!

Walid Shoebat is a brilliant man, a biblical scholar, and a jihadist who as been there and done that. First, he describes his journey from Islamist terrorist to Christian, starting with his Islamic education. He provides a comparison of the myths and reality of Jewish history, and a realistic appraisal of Palestine. The reader receives his first shock on page 26, the Hebron massacre. Next we the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a truly evil man, a man ignored by the West, and Yassar Arafat's role model. The man who met with Hitler, endorsed the "Final Solution," and founded the Bosnian-Muslim Dagger Division of the Nazi SS. Shoebat explains how the Nazi philosophy was included in his Palestinian education.

The remainder of the book is devoted to debunking common assumptions and a comparison of Islam to the Bible and Torah. The book ends with a discussion of Islam and the End of Times.

Shoebat's book is filled with quotations from the Qur'an and hadith, quotations from the Bible, and comparisons. The reader is left with much to contemplate.

A must read for all who seek to understand the basis of the growing conflict between Islam and the West. This book has found a prominent place in my growing library of reference books on Islam.

The only people that don't like this book are the terrorists themselves who don't want their cover blown. Read this book. Almost all of the fuel for a Islamic terrorist's hate originally starts from the Quran. The Quran has atleast 164 violent and anti-christian verses in it. According to the Quran, all muslims will go to hell first, but doesn't state when they will get out. The only way for them to go directly to their heaven of 72 virgins is to die in an act of violence against non-Muslims. All of these violent muslims are trying to get to their heaven and are using excuses such as "occupation of Israel" so that they won't be scruitinized, and keep christians dumbfounded. The muslims better pray that our god doesn't tell us to kill them.

I witnessed a Shoebat lecture, and his speech made me cringe. He is a DISGRACE to anyone associated with the Arab world. His words are filled with hate, and he fabricates the facts he uses (or is severely misinformed). I pity those who soak up what he says, thinking that they are getting some unforeseen perspective on "terrorism."

Walid was the most disrespectful speaker I have ever witnessed. He fulfills the typical Arab stereotypes that speakers should be working to eliminate. He bases much of his racism against Arabs and Muslims upon his own dysfunctional relationship with his father, and implies that all Muslims are violent, irrational, and dedicated to a militant jihad. His audience was composed of Muslims, Jews, Christians, and many other groups of people, with different political and religious views. During Q&A sessions, the audience was asked to raise their hands if they agreed with any of the messages that Walid presented--not one person raised his or her hand. Despite the audience's respectfulness during his speech, Walid badgered those who asked him questions, and refused to answer them (even those of the Rabbi). He blatantly promotes hate, and tells those of us in the West to apply racist stereotypes to those in the Middle East.

I'm sorry, but his speech angered so many people, both those who are pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli. And ASI pays him significant sums of money for his speech about how he used to be a terrorist, moved to America, converted to Christianity, and found the light.

Ok, so it was my first book I read on radical islam and jihad, so I was totally confused at first. But i've gone back over it, and its a really great read. And what makes it remarkable, is that it was written by a former PLO terrorist. Great stuff there!

This book is full of excellent information you usually don't hear on TV or read in the newspapers. Walid Shoebat proves how the violent, corrupt mentality we are told only exists in a tiny fraction of Muslims actually consumes a large part of their religion. He cites countless examples and proved to me Islam is in no way a religion of peace, but a hate filled way of thinking bent on destroying the Jews and the rest of us that stand between them and total control of the world.

The only problem I had with the book was his facts seemed to continue on and on forever. Great to prove your point, but it begins to get a little dull.

This book is intriguing and fascinating! As Americans, we must read this to know the evil that surrounds us, and to figure out a way to keep our country protected and safe from this abomination they call Islam.

A pure work of fiction from a man who makes his living off of vilifying Islam , going around the country on paid speaking engagements propagating his wild claims that he once belonged to a "terrorist group".

Anyone with any knowledge of Israeli policies towards anyone who dares resist the occupation and the Israeli policies in Palestine, knows full well that Israel does not allow anyone that attacks its armed forces, let alone anyone who claims that he actually carries out attacks that killed Israelis, to walk around in freedom.

Also, according to US Citizenship guidelines, anyone who does not disclose their past criminal record, is liable to be stripped of their citizenship and deported. All applicants for US Citizenship are required to take an oath that they had not committed any criminals acts.

This would mean that Mr. Shoebat is lying about his past so as to make his outlandish claims more "believable" to the average American.

Mr. Shoebat's owes his "fame and fortune" to his Christian Zionist masters and echoes their attacks against Islam and anyone else who would dare challenge the pro-Israeli cabal.

I found this book chock-full of misinformation, innuendos, all designed to further demonise Islam and Muslims.

Mr. Shoebat is neither a scholar, nor an expert on Islam or terrorism, he is mainly concerned with playing to lowest common denominator, fueling yet more hatred against Islam, Muslims, and the much brutalized Palestinians.

Karen Armstrong is a much better authority on Islam than Mr. Shoebat can ever hope to be...

But it's essential reading for dirty kuffar who refuse to pay the jizya.
Karen Armstrong? She, along with John Esposito, spearhead the campaign to whitewash Islam. I believe the are going to co-author a book called "Islam for Dhimmis" very soon.
Anyone who has ever heard Shoebat speak knows this guy is the real deal.
Most importantly, what people like Shoebat and Robert Spencer do is just highlight what the Qu'ran and Hadith actually say, as well as what authoritative texts like the biography _Sirat Rasul Allah_ say. Hanini and his ilk have no real counter-argument, they just shout "Islamophobe" or "racist" or "Zionist stooge."

Not really an autobiography, but a detailed comparison of the Koran and Bible. Analyzes the Koran's tenets and its justification for murder, servitude, etc., to achieve Islam's goals. Written by a a former committed Jihadist who was ultimately convinced of the fallacy and intolerance of Islam after self-directed research and study.

Living in America, we must seek out information that will lead us to truth. This book gives great insight into the "whys" of terrorism.

This book should be required reading for everyone in the free world. Islam is out to convert us or kill us. This is what they are taught from infancy and it is in their "holy" book. Walid Shoebat is quite thorough in his expose of radical Islam because he was brought up in it and he is also extremely well versed in the Bible. If we believe the Politically Correct crowd, that Islam is a religion of peace, you can believe that the Jihadists (the ones that brought us 9/11 and many other calamities)will bury us!

It's true that it badly needs editing, but a lot of the writing is actually very good, and the research is awesome. I really like and trust the author--he seems very authentic and honest. Another great book along the same line is Don Richardson's 'Secrets of the Koran', which is easier reading, also fascinating, and very professionally edited. The two of them together make an awesome package. In order to balance the impact, I'd recommend reading 'Light Force', by Brother Andrews, which emphasizes sympathy and love for the Palestinian church.

No argument about what he writes, pretty much the same view as found in Sword of the Profit....However as pointed out by another reviewer. Walid's writer NEEDS A WRITER. I don't think there is a complete thought thread on one page. The book is a jumble of unconnected paragraphs. The poor writing makes what could have been a more compelling presentation - a real annoyance to read.

Walid's book is full of short snippits of history, media, and common beliefs of the terrorist groups he was once a part of. He takes these pieces and debunks them one by one. Did you know the deep ties the Radical Islamists had with Nazis? Walid's own grandfather was there watching with joy the first night Hitler began slaughtering Jews. Many shocking similarities exist between Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews and the Islamist's treatment of "Dhimmies". However, the Islamist's claim that it is the Jews who resemble Naziism, saying that, not only did the Jews inflate the severity of the Holocaust, they also benfitted from it financially, physically, spiritually!! The hatred, intolerance, and misunderstanding of who the Jews are is a tragic misanthropy to the religion of Islam. Walid exposes and dethones the historical manipulations that the Palestinian government has used to drive its people into hysteria. He also corrects many terrible misinterpretations/misinformation held by many Islam scholars (No, Muhammad is NOT prophesied of in the Bible! Abraham's "seed" is clearly the descendents of Isaac and Jacob, not Ishmael, etc.). The book is quite lengthy and goes into great detail on a variety of subjects -- More subjects than I could ever remember, honestly. [...]

This book terrified me. It demonstrates a point of view that we are in over our heads fighting a against terrorism that we are not willing to win.
I am ordinarily a fast hand reader. I could only handle this book a few pages at a time. An interesting look into the head of someone who, until recently, wanted to kill us all.

"If every Jew in the world were dead," Walid Shoebat writes in his personal memoir, Islamic jihad "would not end. The rest of you are infidels, too: Koreans, Japanese, Britons, anyone--even other Muslims who don't adhere to this cult of violence. The motto is 'Islam to the world.' The earth, they claim, belongs to 'Allah and His prophet'."

This book will be extremely significant to Christians seeking to understand their relationship (and that of their faith) to Israel and the Jewish people. Shoebat is amazingly proficient in biblical texts, and also extraordinarily adept at comparing the Christian and Islamic claims and texts.

But the book is also a valuable resource for all non-Christians who seek an understanding of the radical ideologies that dominate so much Middle Eastern Islamic and Christian discourse. He very well explains the importance--and what he considers errors--of Christian replacement theology, which argues that God's promise to the Jewish people was replaced with a promise to Christians after the Jewish people were dispersed from the holy land of Israel. Shoebat argues persuasively against the replacement theology, which he contends began erroneously to dominate Christian thinking with its introduction by St. Augustine.

However, whether or not one is a believing Christian, of any denomination, it is important to understand the conflicting Christian interpretations of the biblical promises outlined in the Old Testament, or Tenach. For these can and do have significant potential to effect current events and international attitudes and policies.

Far more important than Shoebat's explanations of varying Christian interpretations of biblical texts is his elucidation of Islamic theology dominating Palestinian Liberation Organization (to which he once belonged, as an avowed Jew-hater and terrorist)--and Palestinian Authority schools, media, mosques, churches (yes, churches) and politics.

The education he received, even in a Palestinian Christian school, Shoebat notes, was a Nazi education--which continues to dominate all schools, both Islamic and Christian, in the Palestinian Authority today. In fact, with the advent of Hamas to political control of the Palestinian Authority government, the problem has only grown worse. But, according to Shoebat, there is actually no difference between Hamas and PLO ideologies.

Shoebat reaches these conclusions from his own experience, the writings of scholars such as Lebanese law professor Antoine Fattal and 19th century scholar E. W. Lane--and from contemporary pronouncements by Yasser Arafat, Mufti Ikrama Sabri, Sheikh Hamid Al-Bitawi, Palestinain Consumer Protection Council chief Maher al-Dasuki, articles from Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, and many other major Palestinian Authority clerics and officials.

Moreover, Shoebat ties their pronouncements to classical Islamic history, theology and jurisprudence, as stipulated by events under the reigns of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), al-Mutawwakil (847-861) and in the writings of al-Kindi (d. 830), classical Shafi'i jurist Al-Mawardi (d. 1058), and many others. The persecution of Jews under Islam was not limited to the time of Mohammed, Shoebat notes. It also occurred with great regularity throughout the 1,400 years that followed the Islamic conquest and domination of the Middle East and North Africa. Shoebat relates many specific atrocities in history to support this view.

Shoebat is fully fluent and literate in Arabic, that being his primary language. Therefore, his reading of historical events, accounts and doctrines is based on his own personal ability to read classical Arabic texts, current day newspapers, and to understand the volumes of daily oral hatred broadcast via PA radio and TV.

Shoebat' also provides critical information regarding Palestinian Christian leaders--like al-Bushra chief Labib Qubti, al-Sabeel head Niam Ateek (also founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center), Jerusalem patriarch Michel Sabbah, Rapprochement Center leaders Ghasson Andoni and George Rishmawi (with whom Shoebat grew up in Beit Sahour), Emil Salayta, Elias Chacour and others.

These Christians, he writes, misrepresent the Islamic compact to subjugate Christians and Jews, alike. They glorify Islam, he contends, intentionally omitting "the fact that Islam declared the Jews to be Dhimmis, an act that placed the Jews under the Omar Charter."

Unfortunately, he writes, they ignore the fact that the pact of Oman "was applied by Islam to Jews and Christians from time immemorial." They claim "that 'for centuries and centuries' Christians lived in peace and harmony with Muslims." But they ignore, he continues, "the million Armenians butchered by Muslims" in Turkey, "the 1.5 million Sudanese Christians annihilated in the past few years by Muslims," the massacres of Serbian Orthodox Christians in Bosnia, and "persecution of millions of Christians around the world."

The book also exposes the Islamic eschatology--which envisions the mass targeting and slaughter of the world's Jews, and the slaughter of all Christians who do not, afterwards, accept Islam.

One need not accept the Christian faith, as Shoebat has done, to garner great value from his personal knowledge of Islam, the Palestinian Authority and the dangers posed to the West by Islam's vision of one Islamic world government.

I have personally been maligned for reporting this man's story, and its relationship with Islamic history.

But Walid Shoebat is a man who lived this ideology for the better part of his life. He is a courageous man who lost his birth family and everything he owned to absolve his personal guilt--and expose that dangerous ideology to the West. We owe him a hearing.

"If every Jew in the world were dead," Walid Shoebat writes in his personal memoir, Islamic jihad "would not end. The rest of you are infidels, too: Koreans, Japanese, Britons, anyone--even other Muslims who don't adhere to this cult of violence. The motto is 'Islam to the world.' The earth, they claim, belongs to 'Allah and His prophet'."

This book will be extremely significant to Christians seeking to understand their relationship (and that of their faith) to Israel and the Jewish people. Shoebat is amazingly proficient in biblical texts, and also extraordinarily adept at comparing the Christian and Islamic claims and texts.

But the book is also a valuable resource for all non-Christians who seek an understanding of the radical ideologies that dominate so much Middle Eastern Islamic and Christian discourse. He very well explains the importance--and what he considers errors--of Christian replacement theology, which argues that God's promise to the Jewish people was replaced with a promise to Christians after the Jewish people were dispersed from the holy land of Israel. Shoebat argues persuasively against the replacement theology, which he contends began erroneously to dominate Christian thinking with its introduction by St. Augustine.

However, whether or not one is a believing Christian, of any denomination, it is important to understand the conflicting Christian interpretations of the biblical promises outlined in the Old Testament, or Tenach. For these can and do have significant potential to effect current events and international attitudes and policies.

Far more important than Shoebat's explanations of varying Christian interpretations of biblical texts is his elucidation of Islamic theology dominating Palestinian Liberation Organization (to which he once belonged, as an avowed Jew-hater and terrorist)--and Palestinian Authority schools, media, mosques, churches (yes, churches) and politics.

The education he received, even in a Palestinian Christian school, Shoebat notes, was a Nazi education--which continues to dominate all schools, both Islamic and Christian, in the Palestinian Authority today. In fact, with the advent of Hamas to political control of the Palestinian Authority government, the problem has only grown worse. But, according to Shoebat, there is actually no difference between Hamas and PLO ideologies.

Shoebat reaches these conclusions from his own experience, the writings of scholars such as Lebanese law professor Antoine Fattal and 19th century scholar E. W. Lane--and from contemporary pronouncements by Yasser Arafat, Mufti Ikrama Sabri, Sheikh Hamid Al-Bitawi, Palestinain Consumer Protection Council chief Maher al-Dasuki, articles from Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, and many other major Palestinian Authority clerics and officials.

Moreover, Shoebat ties their pronouncements to classical Islamic history, theology and jurisprudence, as stipulated by events under the reigns of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), al-Mutawwakil (847-861) and in the writings of al-Kindi (d. 830), classical Shafi'i jurist Al-Mawardi (d. 1058), and many others. The persecution of Jews under Islam was not limited to the time of Mohammed, Shoebat notes. It also occurred with great regularity throughout the 1,400 years that followed the Islamic conquest and domination of the Middle East and North Africa. Shoebat relates many specific atrocities in history to support this view.

Shoebat is fully fluent and literate in Arabic, that being his primary language. Therefore, his reading of historical events, accounts and doctrines is based on his own personal ability to read classical Arabic texts, current day newspapers, and to understand the volumes of daily oral hatred broadcast via PA radio and TV.

Shoebat' also provides critical information regarding Palestinian Christian leaders--like al-Bushra chief Labib Qubti, al-Sabeel head Niam Ateek (also founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Tehology Center), Jerusalem patriarch Michel Sabbah, Rapprochement Center leaders Ghasson Andoni and George Rishmawi (with whom Shoebat grew up in Beit Sahour), Emil Salayta, Elias Chacour and others.

These Christians, he writes, misrepresent the Islamic compact to subjugate Christians and Jews, alike. They glorify Islam, he contends, intentionally omitting "the fact that Islam declared the Jews to be Dhimmis, an act that placed the Jews under the Omar Charter."

Unfortunately, he writes, they ignore the fact that the pact of Oman "was applied by Islam to Jews and Christians from time immemorial." They claim "that 'for centuries and centuries' Christians lived in peace and harmony with Muslims." But they ignore, he continues, "the million Armenians butchered by Muslims" in Turkey, "the 1.5 million Sudanese Christians annihilated in the past few years by Muslims," the massacres of Serbian Orthodox Christians in Bosnia, and "persecution of millions of Christians around the world."

The book also exposes the Islamic eschatology--which envisions the mass targeting and slaughter of the world's Jews, and the slaughter of all Christians who do not, afterwards, accept Islam.

One need not accept the Christian faith, as Shoebat has done, to garner great value from his personal knowledge of Islam, the Palestinian Authority and the dangers posed to the West by Islam's vision of one Islamic world government.

I have personally been maligned for reporting this man's story, and its relationship with Islamic history.

But Walid Shoebat is a man who lived this ideology for the better part of his life. He is a courageous man who lost his birth family and everything he owned to absolve his personal guilt--and expose that dangerous ideology to the West. We owe him a hearing.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

"If every Jew in the world were dead," Walid Shoebat writes in his personal memoir, Islamic jihad "would not end. The rest of you are infidels, too: Koreans, Japanese, Britons, anyone--even other Muslims who don't adhere to this cult of violence. The motto is 'Islam to the world.' The earth, they claim, belongs to 'Allah and His prophet'."

This book will be extremely significant to Christians seeking to understand their relationship (and that of their faith) to Israel and the Jewish people. Shoebat is amazingly proficient in biblical texts, and also extraordinarily adept at comparing the Christian and Islamic claims and texts.

But the book is also a valuable resource for all non-Christians who seek an understanding of the radical ideologies that dominate so much Middle Eastern Islamic and Christian discourse. He very well explains the importance--and what he considers errors--of Christian replacement theology, which argues that God's promise to the Jewish people was replaced with a promise to Christians after the Jewish people were dispersed from the holy land of Israel. Shoebat argues persuasively against the replacement theology, which he contends began erroneously to dominate Christian thinking with its introduction by St. Augustine.

However, whether or not one is a believing Christian, of any denomination, it is important to understand the conflicting Christian interpretations of the biblical promises outlined in the Old Testament, or Tenach. For these can and do have significant and potential to effect current events and international attitudes and policies.

Far more important than Shoebat's explanations of varying Christian interpretations of biblical texts is his elucidation of Islamic theology dominating Palestinian Liberation Organization (to which he once belonged, as an avowed Jew-hater and terrorist)--and Palestinian Authority schools, media, mosques, churches (yes, churches) and politics.

The education he received, even in a Palestinian Christian school, Shoebat notes, was a Nazi education--which continues to dominate all schools, both Islamic and Christian, in the Palestinian Authority today. In fact, with the advent of Hamas to political control of the Palestinian Authority government, the problem has only grown worse. But, according to Shoebat, there is actually no difference between Hamas and PLO ideologies.

Shoebat reaches these conclusions from his own experience, the writings of scholars such as Lebanese law professor Antoine Fattal and 19th century scholar E. W. Lane--and from contemporary pronouncements by Yasser Arafat, Mufti Ikrama Sabri, Sheikh Hamid Al-Bitawi, Palestinain Consumer Protection Council chief Maher al-Dasuki, articles from Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, and many other major Palestinian Authority clerics and officials.

Moreover, Shoebat ties their pronouncements to classical Islamic history, theology and jurisprudence, as stipulated by events under the reigns of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), al-Mutawwakil (847-861) and in the writings of al-Kindi (d. 830), classical Shafi'i jurist Al-Mawardi (d. 1058), and many others. The persecution of Jews under Islam was not limited to the time of Mohammed, Shoebat notes. It also occurred with great regularity throughout the 1,400 years that followed the Islamic conquest and domination of the Middle East and North Africa. Shoebat relates many specific atrocities in history to support this view.

Shoebat is fully fluent and literate in Arabic, that being his primary language. Therefore, his reading of historical events, accounts and doctrines is based on his own personal ability to read classical Arabic texts, current day newspapers, and to understand the volumes of daily oral hatred broadcast via PA radio and TV.

Shoebat' also provides critical information regarding Palestinian Christian leaders--like al-Bushra chief Labib Qubti, al-Sabeel head Niam Ateek (also founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Tehology Center), Jerusalem patriarch Michel Sabbah, Rapprochement Center leaders Ghasson Andoni and George Rishmawi (with whom Shoebat grew up in Beit Sahour), Emil Salayta, Elias Chacour and others.

These Christians, he writes, misrepresent the Islamic compact to subjugate Christians and Jews, alike. They glorify Islam, he contends, intentionally omitting "the fact that Islam declared the Jews to be Dhimmis, an act that placed the Jews under the Omar Charter."

Unfortunately, he writes, they ignore the fact that the pact of Oman "was applied by Islam to Jews and Christians from time immemorial." They claim "that 'for centuries and centuries' Christians lived in peace and harmony with Muslims." But they ignore, he continues, "the million Armenians butchered by Muslims" in Turkey, "the 1.5 million Sudanese Christians annihilated in the past few years by Muslims," the massacres of Serbian Orthodox Christians in Bosnia, and "persecution of millions of Christians around the world."

The book also exposes the Islamic eschatology--which envisions the mass targeting and slaughter of the world's Jews, and the slaughter of all Christians who do not, afterwards, accept Islam.

One need not accept the Christian faith, as Shoebat has done, to garner great knowledge from his personal knowledge of the Islam, the Palestinian Authority and the dangers posed to the West by the Islamic vision of one Islamic world government.

I have personally been maligned for reporting this man's story, and its relationship with Islamic history.

But Walid Shoebat is a man who lived this ideology for the better part of his life. He is a courageous man who lost his birth family and everything he owned to absolve his personal guilt--and expose that dangerous ideology to the West. We owe him a hearing.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

This book is a testament to Our Lord Jesus Christ and how His love frees people from Satan's grasp. Mr. Shoebat was brought up learning to hate. In this book he stated, 'My lullibies and many of the poems we memorized were about flying body parts and rolling heads'. Sweet. This is the influence of Islam in Arab lands. He now preaches a different gospel. The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This influence he was immersed in was so great, Mr. Shoebat grew up to become a terrorist. He thought he was being Godly. Wow. The oppressive nature of Islam pervades every element of a Muslim's life. You cannot separate Islamic culture from the faith itself. They are woven into each other at the foundation.

The first half of this book centers on Mr. Shoebat's testimony and Islamic culture. The second half exposits on End Time theology. Fascinating read, well worth your time. If you're wondering why Islam is gaining in influence (not to mention hatred) around the glode today, read this book.

By the way, Walid Shoebat is not the author's real name. He had to change it and lives in an undisclosed location because Muslims want to kill him. They consider him an infidel, worthy of death. How can this be if Islam is considered a religion of peace? This is a very serious question to ask yourself, readers. Read the newspapers, watch the news on television. The plain fact is, the West is under attack by a completely different ideology. We've got to wake up to this fact.

This book is a testament to Our Lord Jesus Christ and how His love frees people from Satan's grasp. Mr. Shoebat was brought up learning to hate. In this book he stated, 'My lullibies and many of the poems we memorized were about flying body parts and rolling heads'. Sweet. This is the influence of Islam in Arab lands. He now preaches a different gospel. The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This influence he was immersed in was so great, Mr. Shoebat grew up to become a terrorist. He thought he was being Godly. Wow. The oppressive nature of Islam pervades every element of a Muslim's life. You cannot separate Islamic culture from the faith itself. They are woven into each other at the foundation.

The first half of this book centers on Mr. Shoebat's testimony and Islamic culture. The second half exposits on End Time theology. Fascinating read, well worth your time. If you're wondering why Islam is gaining in influence (not to mention hatred) around the glode today, read this book.

By the way, Walid Shoebat is not the author's real name. He had to change it and lives in an undisclosed location because Muslims want to kill him. They consider him an infidel, worthy of death. Religion of peace. Right.

There is a lot of excellent information - quotes from various sources, excerpts from the Koran, etc. - but I had expected a somewhat different book. I thought it would be about his experiences as a terrorist, what the terrorist organization was like from the inside, and his effort to remove himself from it. It really is a book about what Islam really is and then a long part at the end is an interpretation of End Time references in the Bible. There is nothing personal in the book.

What an excellent book with many things I had never heard before! Be prepared to rethink many of your assumptions concerning the end times. Gives good reasons to support why I am a Christian Zionist. God has spoken, and His Word is clear. The book ties together Israel's prophets and the book of Revelation. If I had to recommend one book on prophecy, this would be it! As Walid Shoebat says, "To all who seek Israel's destructiion, I say, 'Think Again.'"

When Walid Shoebat was a Muslim, his goal was to spread death and destruction. And, under no uncertain terms was this 'extreme'. This was MAINSTREAM. ALL Palestinian children sung songs of killing Jews, dismemberment of Jews, and Jews' "heads rolling". ALL Palestinians were taught from childhood (yes, and infancy) to hate the Jews, that Israel was the Little Satan and the U.S. was the Great Satan, and ALL Palestinians were taught that there was no greater method of dying than to die in the process of killing Jews or Christians. They lived by the credo, "First Saturday, than Sunday", which refers to first killing those that have the Sabbath on Saturday (Jews) and then killing those that have the Sabbath on Sunday (Christians). The author specifically talks about looking forward to his 72 virgins in paradise as a teen. These are MAINSTREAM teachings (that began, by the way, before Israel became a country!).

Mr. Shoebat proves the point unequivocally that the wars in the Middle East, including Israel, has absolutely NOTHING to do with occupation and NOTHING to do with land. It is completely about Jihad and dar al-Islam (a world under Islamic rule or Islamic 'submission'), and he proves this point beyond any doubt.

Now that Walid Shoebat has left Islam and became a Christian, he spends every day risking his life to speak the truth of Islam and Jihad. Consequently, his own father has disowned him for leaving and his own brother has threatened his life and the lives of Walid's children. When one leaves Islam, he is branded an apostate. When one speaks negatively about Islam, he is branded a blasphemist. Both of these labels are punishable by death in Islam.

I want to recommend this book wholeheartedly because I believe the message is a positive one and I really want to support the author for writing it. However, as much as I admire Shoebat's bravery in speaking out against Islam's ideology of death and destruction, I am reluctant to do so unless the reader is a Christian or unless the reader can ignore the very many (bulk of the book) scriptural references. Some of us, for instance, are aware of Islam's danger, but are not evangelical Christians. I think this book might be a bit off-putting for those. For those readers interested in the subject, but not in religious references, I think there are other books that may be more helpful. I do want to stress, though, that Mr. Shoebat's life is fascinating, and his ability to leave absolutely everything he had been taught is very admirable. In addition, the scriptural references can be looked at in this vein, too. He uses the Christian references to argue in favor of Israel's right to exist, Judaism and religious freedom, and Zionism. I found it mostly very interesting, but his book is less of a personal story or memoir and more of a theological debate.

I saw Mr. Shoebat speak the other night and was completely impressed. If one has the opportunity to see him speak anywhere, please do so. He's entertaining, charming, and very interesting. His lecture is not peppered with religious references and is for absolutely everyone, everywhere, to hear.

When Walid Shoebat was a Muslim, his goal was to spread death and destruction. And, under no uncertain terms was this 'extreme'. This was MAINSTREAM. ALL Palestinian children sung songs of killing Jews, dismemberment of Jews, and Jews' "heads rolling". ALL Palestinians were taught from childhood (yes, and infancy) to hate the Jews, that Israel was the Little Satan and the U.S. was the Great Satan, and ALL Palestinians were taught that there was no greater method of dying than to die in the process of killing Jews. The author specifically talks about looking forward to his 72 virgins in paradise as a teen. These are MAINSTREAM teachings (that began, by the way, before Israel became a country!).

Now that Walid Shoebat has left Islam and became a Christian, he spends every day risking his life to speak the truth of Islam and Jihad. Consequently, his own father has disowned him for leaving and his own brother has threatened his life and the lives of Walid's children.

I want to recommend this book wholeheartedly because I believe the message is a positive one and I really want to support the author for writing it. However, as much as I admire Shoebat's bravery in speaking out against Islam's ideology of death and destruction, I am reluctant to do so unless the reader is a Christian or unless the reader can ignore the very many (bulk of the book) scriptural references. Some of us, for instance, are aware of Islam's danger, but are not evangelical Christians. I think this book might be a bit off-putting for those. For those readers interested in the subject, but not in religious references, I think there are other books that may be more helpful. I do want to stress, though, that Mr. Shoebat's life is fascinating, and his ability to leave absolutely everything he had been taught is very admirable. In addition, the scriptural references can be looked at in this vein, too. He uses the Christian references to argue in favor of Israel, Judaism, and Zionism. I found it mostly very interesting, but his book is less of a personal story or memoir and more of a theological debate.

I saw Mr. Shoebat speak the other night and was completely impressed. If one has the opportunity to see him speak anywhere, please do so. He's entertaining, charming, and very interesting. His lecture is not peppered with religious references and is for absolutely everyone, everywhere, to hear.

This book is based on introducing new lies to an already misinformed public (majority of Americans), and playing the loyal dog part to some, I'm a Muslim from Saudi Arabia and find this book full of lies and hatreds towards Islam.
Either that or the writer is a loony, It's like asking Charles Manson to write a book about Christianity.

Walid Shoebat is a former member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and in his book: Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam, he shares how he came to be an advocate for the Jewish people. As a youth he witnessed Israel's victorious Six Day War while living in Jericho, and after that time a pervasive atmosphere of hatred towards Jews and Israel spread in Arab communities and began to be taught in schools, along with Islamic eschatology. He also noted that many displaced Palestinians were kept in refugee camps as a kind of political pawn by Arab governments. Walid Shoebat, speaks on how a racist ideology is used as recruitment by such groups as the PLO, who start off by denying the Holocaust, and seek to change all Jewish holy places into Muslim ones. As a teenager, Walid Shoebat joined the PLO and was involved in rioting in Israel, where he was briefly imprisoned. Later, while studying in the United States he came to the realization that everything he was taught about the Jews was a lie, and he eventually began speaking out on the issue.

According to Walid Shoebat, the war is not against simple terrorism (not on terrorism, not on those few thousand of radical muslims that Bush proposes, but essentially on all Islam. Muslims believe that infidels should be eliminated. Whether we should have invaded Afghanistan, Iraq or Iran or Syria or Saudi Arabia is almost a mute point. They are all muslim and according to Walid, all muslims attending mosques are exposed to recruitment as jihadists/terrorists. All Imams are recuiters of death and destruction. It is how we have waged the war after we claimed the overthrow of Sadaam. We have had to adhered to the policy of respond in kind. Which guaranteed to lose our soldiers lives and prolong any conflict which will cause more deaths.

I've said for months that Morgan Norval's "The Fifteen Century War, Islam's Violent Heritage" was the best book on the subject of these madmen. And it is a fantastic book, but this one is simply amazing. This is a must read.

This book complements nicely my current library of books on Islam, which includes

- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam / Robert Spencer
- The Legacy of Jihad / Andrew Bostom
- Eurabia / Bat Ye'or
- Why I Am Not A Muslim / Ibn Warraq
- Prophet of Doom / Craig Winn

Mr. Shoebat's book, as well as the books listed above, serve as a warning to Western non-Muslims about the agenda of Islam (global domination and subjection of all non-Muslims), and the means it advocates to achieve it, namely jihad. As any book that exposes Islam, the author lets Islam's "scriptures" and "prophet" do the talking.

It is best to read this book after having read Robert Spencer's PIG to Islam (first book on the list above), to have an historical and geographical context.

Students, professionals, laborers and many decent and productive Cuban citizens became terrorists during the fifties in order to rid our country of Batista's bloody dictatorship and follow Fidel. (Read my memoir; "Adios, Havana")
Now we have the most cruel, inhumane system of oppression and swordlaw in Latin American history. Led to believe by Castro and his clique of thugs that the end justified the means we followed this master of deceit into a communist trap. One hard lesson learned: Like hatred in its most demoniacal form, terrorism simply backfires. Almost fifty years later, over half-million Cuban exiles are still waiting for the bearded terrorist to meet his maker in hell.

Walid Shoebat has risked his life to write what you will read in this book. Who else do you know that has a $10 million bounty on his head for the things he speaks and writes about? That alone should make a hundred thousand people curious enough to read what is in his book. What raw nerve has he struck? The Islamo-facist totalitarian haters obviously do not want Walid to share his insights and thoughts, simply because he is both annointed and effective as he shares. He is an unassailable spokesman for truth in the Middle East and Israel and this shines through in these pages. Walid shares with the reader his spiritual journey into truth, from hate to love. He explains his theological journey as well as his collision with reality and how he dealt with the darkness that he found in own heart. A unique and amazing book.

The book is poorly written and full of lies. Jews throughout the years lived in peace with Muslims more than with anyone else. It wasn't the Muslims that killed 6 million Jews, and Hitler wasn't a Muslim, he was a Christian and referred to himself in his speeches as "The Christian".

During the crusades, the crusaders killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Jews that have been living in peace for a long time and demolished many mosques and Temples. Again, the crusaders weren't Muslims.

Prophet Muhammad teaches Muslims to respect other religions and he tended to his Jew neighbor when he became sick. Again the issue is occupation, I don't care what religion you believe in, if someone occupies your land, you resist.

The issue is the occupation of Palestinian land and not racism as the author states, if was racisim, could the author explain why there wasn't any hatred or killing of Jews before the Jews occupied Palestine in 1948?

Much of this extremely thorough and well written study is written from an autobiographical perspective, describing in some considerable detail the personal experiences and faith of the author, together with an often disturbing insight into the ongoing situation in the Middle East. Particular attention being paid to the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict.

The writer describes himself at the outset as having been born in Bethlehem of Judea, Israel. The significance of this precise statement emanates from the text as the reader is confronted with the author's experiences and personal faith, first as a devout Muslim and then as a born again Christian.

The source pulls no punches as he declares himself to be a former Palestinian Liberation Organisation terrorist who has been imprisoned for his participation in acts of incitement and violence against Israel.

It is difficult to remain unmoved when confronted with the account of how, from childhood, the hatred of Jews is described as having been his "education" and how he grew up believing that it was a righteous thing to hate and kill Jews.

The book describes how Walid's life was turned upside down, when through his studies, he discovered that "..everything that he had been taught about the Jews was a lie..."

The context surrounding this profound change of heart/mind, and what is cited as an "addiction of hate", presents the reader with a series of events encompassing Walid's attempt to convert his wife to Islam.

The book narrates how his wife refused to accept the validity of Walid's virulent hatred of the Jews and how he recounts her saying "show me in the Bible the bad things the Jews did". To accommodate her he then began to diligently study the Bible, factual history and other sources in order to substantiate his indoctrinated hatred.

What transpired becomes the platform for this excellent study, which is not only an autobiographical account of Walid, but also a detailed investigation into anti-Semitism, the Middle East, Christianity and Islam itself.

As the book progresses the writer declares that "...I am no longer a terrorist. I am a Christian, dedicated to peace and truth..."

Indeed, the entire message of this book cited as being written with the declared intent of bringing love and truth to anyone who is prepared to listen.

The brutal yet gripping honesty of the writer's involvement in terrorism, hatred of the Jews, and his uncompromising look at almost all the fundamental tenets of Islam is often quite disturbing.

The author describes how he found it amazing that when he was a self confessed terrorist, and a hater of the Jews, he was hailed as a freedom fighter. Yet, by way of comparison, when he became a Christian and began loving the Jewish people, he was suddenly abused as a "racist" and a "traitor".

The former PLO terrorist leaves the reader with the clear message that terrorists recognise no ethics or moral code and that the Israelis face an enemy with whom they cannot negotiate because the primary goal is not the territory. Basing such statements on personal knowledge/experience, the reader is shown that such aspirations are purportedly only secondary issues with the primary intent being the elimination of Israel itself. A plethora of references are provided to support this assertion.

The book illustrates how vigorously the West today is focussed upon creating a Palestinian state, while allegedly sidestepping he Palestinian Charter that is cited as calling for an Arab state in the place of Israel, with no Jews, and with Islam as the official state religion.

The book also investigates the alleged misinformation in the media together with what is called the "miasma of words that insulates the public from the evil of terrorism" in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. The book demonstrating how it is not difficult for extremists to allegedly explain Islam in a completely untruthful fashion to the unquestioning moderates and win them over by the droves. Such a statement being made within the context of sincere concern as to how so many Westerners, especially on the far left side of politics, allegedly demonise Israel and exonerate Islamic-Arab terror.

In the text (page 28) another issue expounded & discussed is that the alleged mentor of Osama bin Laden and the actual inspiration for Al-Qaeda was purportedly a Palestinian named Mustafa Azzam. The implications of this are addressed.

Through an abundance of references the reader is shown how Palestinian schools/textbooks are allegedly required to portray the existence of Israel as a catastrophe and how hatred of the Jews is purportedly an integral part of their curriculum.

The study also proceeds to investigate the Jewish claim to the Holy Land as described in the Hebrew Christian Scriptures. The book discusses how some elements of the professing Church within the Middle East allegedly adhere to the doctrines of replacement and liberation theology and do not recognise what he cites as the true place of Israel as literally cited in the Bible. One senior Church leader in Jerusalem is quoted on page 39 as being recorded on tape by the author as stating that "Israel must be eliminated, by whatever means".

Indeed, the entire situation in the Middle East is also discussed from a Biblical perspective, including the prophetic sections of the Hebrew Christian Scriptures pertaining to the end times and how such compare with those within the Islamic faith that the writer once adhered to.

Having studied the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East for some three decades, I personally consider this to be one of the most timely, gripping and relevant studies of recent years and an account which is an absolute "must read" in relation to the ongoing situation in the region.

This author exposes radical Islam for what it really is. Not political correctness in this book. The person who wrote the review, "A Murky Mase" completely misses the point of the book.

This is one of the most irrational, convoluted books I have ever come across. Did this author not have an editor?? Even a deep interest in the subject did not help when trying to wade through the murky waters of Shoebat's writing. Fair warning: only the first two chapters have any biographical content. The primary emphasis of chapters 3 through 17 is biblical prophecy with unproved assertions offered as truth. Unfortunately, Shoebat offers the reader nothing more than a disputation masquerading as scholarship.

Quite simply, the most honest representation of modern Islamic Terrorism in print- why? Because the author lived it before turning his back on te violence and hatred that had consumed his life.

For the layman, acedemic, or expert, this book must be read.