Back to Walid:
Walid's oratory style is part pep talk and part exhortation with a Hitler-eske intensity and his show is slickly produced to incite the masses. Walid spewed that, "I love FOX News, but not Geraldo Rivera! His biggest mistake wasn't drawing the line in the sand in Iraq; it is his support of a Palestinian state."
The audience roared with laughter and exuberant applause as they also did as Walid preached, "Islam is a revolutionary faith out to destroy all governments…Muslim nations have a command from Allah to rule the world…Islam is a constitutional form of government…when you have a senator take the oath of office on the Koran he is pledging to uphold Sharia law and not the Constitution."
On Feb. 26, I phoned Walid's relative Kamal Youinis the good news that his name was mentioned from the King Center stage and filled him in that his brother Jawad is another supposed terrorist.
Kamal laughed, "Walid is a master of spin! He takes one iota of truth and creates a fiction! It is true my brother is an attorney. It is true that he lost his left hand and some fingers from his right; it was in 1954 and I think my brother was in the sixth grade. Jawad and a half dozen of his friends were out playing under the olive trees in Beit Sahour. They found a grenade left over from the '48 war, but they didn't know what it was. Jawad brought it home and got a hammer. He began banging on the grenade hoping to open it up but it exploded! The explosion killed one of the children and we almost lost Jawad too. Today my brother is a well respected attorney in Amman, Jordan. We all know that King Hussein does what ever the CIA wants, so it would be impossible for Jawad to defend terrorists.
"Walid's father is no fundamentalist. I have known his father since we were young men, we went to college together. Walid's father was not too bright and was always at the bottom of the class. In fact, both his parents have something wrong upstairs. Walid's father is a simpleton, he is a simple man but also an honest and peaceful man. He is religious in that he would pray five times a day, but not a fundamentalist at all. None of Walid's relatives are extremists, only Walid is. It's apparent Walid is involved in a smear campaign with fundamental Christian Zionists to convince Jews and Christians that Islam is out to get them."
Walid's show was nearly 100% successful in that mission. The after show crowd around the table of hundred dollar video sets was three people deep, but I made my way through and asked the merchant to let Walid know that the 'stupid' reporter had been in the audience and would still love to dialogue with him. I handed him my card with phone number and then connected with Billie Young, who stated, "The message was not at all inspiring to me, as a Christian it seemed the speakers were trying to hype the audience up, get them involved in a 'movement' that all Muslim people were out to get the U.S. and the two speakers were the good guys sent to save us. They mentioned our need to join forces to destroy the Muslim people. Personally I believe this is taking a persons life into your own hands, you being the judge and jury against an individual, check out John 8:7, and see if you can cast the first stone…A baby has no control over the family they are born into, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, whatever, so the child has a "mark" on it because it was born into a Muslim household. By this birth they are automatically labeled bad, terrorist, whatever. From the history of this country that I remember, everyone is born free, remember -- democracy -- the freedom to vote, the right to worship your God, earn a living, have a family, home, etc. If one would check out Matthew 22:39 your will find that Jesus said: Love your neighbor as yourself. Let us keep America free by not invading other countries, take care of our own, and when and if, someone invades us, then we have the right to protect ourselves and we did in previous wars. C.S. Lewis summed up what a Christian is suppose to be: "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because GOD has forgiven the inexcusable in us.'"
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