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Walid is a former PLO terrorist who renounced his Palestinean roots 14 years ago, embracing Zionism and alienating his Islamic family in the process. He compares fundamentalist terrorism with Nazi fascism, saying that due to media distortion, people neither understand the plight of the Jews nor see the bias of Islam in the Mideast. According to Shoebat, terrorism was a different game in his time, requiring responsibility, a sense of honor, and a strict creed prohibiting suicide missions. He has denounced the brutal terrorist activities of today, and accused the Islamic population of propogating it. For this belief, he has lent full support to the Hamas war and the Iraq conflict, evoking hatred from liberals, conservatives, christians, and muslims alike.
Freeborn hall was packed, preventing me from hearing his speech or seeing him in person. But he is not important; Walid Shoebat isn't even his real name. What mattered was the spectacle he created, a packed house with protestors in the rows and on the sidewalks overlooking an army of supporters.
"Walid is a Phoney. Learn about Islam from a Muslim, Not From a Terrorist.", was duplicated on the signs of a half-dozen protestors standing around the MU bells, all of them women of Mideast descent.
"They think we are the instigators of hatred but what they do not realize is that they are the people that actually...(rest illegible)", said the rambling sign of another. In my head, I imagined that protestor saying that abhorrent statement aloud, which made me slightly nauseous.
"SILENCED", was written on the poster of another protestor, a black man that silently stood stonefaced at the line of attendants.
Slightly dissapointed at the general cognitive level, I went home.
5 comments:
Why do people hate him? What he said in that 8 minute segment was very true - the problem is a propogating racism that is posed, if not already, to become perpetual. The people responsible are mainly the governments of nations who allow this severe racism to continue.
Unfortunetly I don't really see any way to solve this problem. At least we'll get to live our our Fallout 2 fantasies after the nuclear war.
Kind of makes you think. I think the worst thing I ever did was steal the livejournal of a furry who died in 9-11. This dude planted bombs and now he's on CNN. And somehow, I'M the monster (without a book deal i might add)
I think america should become a fundimentalist country. Of course we need a scripture to abide by. I feel that I should be the one to write it. I will write my authoritarian mantra,and create country teams. Each giving eachother sides, and purposes. First objective will be to overthrow coca cola, then pepsi. Surely we can do this with bombs and knives. I think what I'm getting at is we need to destroy eachother with all of our resources. this way life isnt so stupid. We dont want to live the next day to eat a burger. We want to jump in the ocean and seek revenge against an islamic extremist. We need the rules to a bloody battle so we can all repress our anger on eachother instead of sitting around institutionalized...
Are you for real? GREAT IDEA!
JOIN ME IN THE HEART OF COMBAT MY BROTHERS SO THAT WE MAY KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO DIE WITH HONOR!!!
jesus, pat, learn how to log in
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