Ibrahim Abdullah
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Ibrahim Abdullah (1963) is an American citizen of Palestinian descent. By self definition, he is a former PLO terrorist. He converted from Islam to Christianity in 1990 after a year of comparitive studies on both religions. [1]
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[edit] Personal background
According to his biography in Shoebat.com, Abdullah was born in 1963 into a Palestinian Muslim family in Dearborn, Michigan. He had a radical muslim and antisemitic upbringing which he claims, was in reality mainstream. He was brought up in the belief that "all the problems faced by the Palestinian people were caused by the Jews".
In 1981, he emigrated to Israel at the age of 18 and joined the Fatah, the main radical group associated with the PLO. He claims to have committed many hate crimes against Jewish civilians during this period. For instance, in one incident he recalls having thrown stones with other Fatah members at a car driven by an Israeli man, thereby causing it to crash into a pole. He also relates another incident in which he and his group threw molotov cocktails at a passenger bus that had a mix of both Muslims and Jews on board with complete disregard for the lives of the passengers onboard. The resulting casualties were only prevented when they failed to cause the bus to crash, as the bombs bounced off the roof of the bus.
When the Israeli army secured Ramallah, Abdullah was arrested along with several other members of his group. While in confinement at the military prison outside Ramallah, he claims to have been recruited by extreme Islamist radicals for a terrorist mission and also being given training on bomb making, gliding, surveillance and infiltrating Lebanon. Upon his conditional release, he was immediately deported to the United States and hence, was not able to carry out his mission.
In 1989, Abdullah studying the Quran for the purpose of becoming a more devout muslim but gradually became disillusioned with Islam due to the perceived inconsistenices in the Hadith versus the Quran. He later began studying the Bible, eventually converting to Christianity in 1990 after coming to the conclusion that "the bible is the only true book". His conversion was soon followed by that of his wife in 1994.[2]
He claims that he no longer bears any hatred or animosity towards the Jewish people and to have remorse for his past actions.
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- Story of three former Muslim terrorists (A video clip of a news interview featuring Ibrahim Abdullah together with Zak Anani and Walid Shoebat)
