The three anti-Muslim fear-mongering bigots have spent the past couple of years on speaking tour across America but this is the first time that the trio has spoken at a military academy for which they picked up $ 13,000. 

Shoebat urged his audience to resist "political correctness" and not to fear being labeled a "xenophobe, Islamophobe or American bigot." "The problem with Islam is if you speak out against Islam, you are a racist," Shoebat told a group of about 250 cadets and students. 

Saleem said "if America is taken down and Sharia laws take over, there is no hope," he said during a spirited talk, in which he shouted and stomped in driving home his points.

Anani called it a mistake to limit discussion about terrorism to "radical Islam." "There is no radical Islam; there is Islam itself," he said. 
In the past events at campuses and TV appearances, they made similar bigoted and inaccurate statements about Islam and Muslims. They told one California university audience that Americans need to "wake up to the dangerous realities of the Islamic faith."

Walid Shoebat has built a lucrative speaking career by manipulating the fears and whipping up hatred between Jews and Muslims. He told Springfield News-Leader, a Missouri newspaper, on Sept. 24, 2007 that he sees "many parallels between the Antichrist and Islam" and "Islam is not the religion of God -- Islam is the devil."

Zachariah Anani, who claims to have killed 223 people in the name of Islam, says he is an advocate against what he calls "the violent doctrines of Islam." (Michigan Daily, Jan. 30, 2007) 

Another prominent speaker at the Air Force Academy is Islamophobe and controversial "terrorism expert" Steven Emerson, whose apparent lifelong goal is to banish Muslim Americans from American civil life. Like all professional propagandists, Emerson aspires to be detective, prosecutor, judge, and jury.
It is an unfortunate consequence of the post 9/11 life in America, where fear-mongering is a reality, that notorious career Islamophobes, such as these individuals, are subjected to little scrutiny and virtually no credibility tests.

Who are they? Shoebat and Kamal Saleem, are U.S. citizens and Zachariah Anani, is a Canadian. Shoebat and Saleem say they are former members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, according to their Web site. Saleem converted to Christianity after being treated by a Christian doctor. The three are evangelical Christians who being are promoted by their publicists as "the former terrorists" who "practiced hatred against Christians, Jews and Americans" and were "part of sleeper cells in the USA." Not surprisingly, many civil right groups, academics and at least one Canadian expert on jihad have called the men fakes. 

Who is Walid Shoebat?

Walid Shoebat has found a way to make money by fabricating a fantasy story and claiming to be a former terrorist. Shoebat's father was from Beit Sahour in Palestine and his mother was an American Christian. His father was not a practicing Muslim and Shoebat spent very few years in Palestine. When Shoebat was young his father killed another man in Beit Sahour and the family was forced to leave town while Shoebat was young. Walid Shoebat and his mother returned to the United States and he was raised a Christian. Shoebat now gets between $13,000 to $15,000 per speaking event, and mostly speaks to right-wing or Jewish groups.

Shoebat does not merely regurgitate the same polemical and superficial criticisms of Islam shared by other luminaries in the Christian Right and the growing anti-Islam crowd but he confirms these unwise beliefs by suggesting that there is some credibility to them. 

Who is Kamal Saleem?

Doug Howard, a professor of Middle East history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., says he and several other academics have been researching the men since Kamal Saleem spoke at the college last fall. 

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"We suspect he's a fraud," Howard said. Howard has determined that Saleem's real name is Khodor Shami, a Lebanese who immigrated as a student and worked for the Christian Broadcasting Network for 16 years starting in the late 1980s. He was hired in 2003 at Focus on the Family.

Who is Zachariah Anani? 

Tom Quiggin, Canada's only court-qualified expert on global jihadism and a former Police intelligence and national security expert, says that Zachariah Anani's tales of terror and murder just don't jibe with the time and place he claims to have been killing. "Mr. Anani's not an individual who rates the slightest degree of credibility, based on the stories that he has told," said Quiggin, who is also a Senior Fellow at the Center of Excellence for National Security in Singapore.

"It appears to be that Mr. Anani is nothing more than an extremist who is trying to create an imaginative history from a contemporary set of fears and stories," said Quiggin. "Mr. Anani's myths that he has built up around himself lack validity on a number of key points." (Windsor Star, Canada - January 20, 2007)
Why they are not arrested?

The question is if the three were actually terrorists then why they weren't jailed or deported? 

Robert Birach, an immigration law attorney in Detroit, says the men would have had to have disclosed their affiliation with the PLO on their applications to become U.S. citizens if what they claim is true. "Failure to list the affiliation on the citizenship application is enough to go back and open the file and charge them with fraud and perjury," Birach said. "And now they are admitting to being former terrorists. So under the Real ID Act, that's enough for their removal from the United States."

According to Rev. Jim Sutter of the HateWatch.com, every known terrorist is on one or more of the 12 US watch lists, and the combined watch list used by TSA to screen airline passengers. Shoebat is going around the country, making this claim over and over that he used to be a terrorist - are you really naive enough to think that if his claim were true, he wouldn't be on a watch list? 

Shoebat has a "highly questionable" background. He has admitted to not using his real name as he travels around the country, picking up a small mountain of cash at speaking engagements, through his writing books and columns, where he tells us how Islam is evil, and how he was a big, bad former terrorist. Yet he freely flies around the country, not being on anyone's watch list or the no-fly list.