Jihad to Christ A Muslim comes to Christ
PART ONE
first battle was the Six Day War when the Jews captured old Jerusalem and the rest I was born in Bethlehem, Israel, on one of Palestine. This was a great disappointof the holiest days to Islam -- the birthday ment to Arabs and Muslims worldwide. of the Muslim prophet Mohammad (AlMauled Al-Nabawi). This was an honor to The American Council in Jerusalem my father, for that he named me “Walid” came just before the war to evacuate all which relates to the Arabic word “Mauled” the Americans in the area since my mothin English “The Birth”, to always remember er was an American, but my father refused the birthday of the Muslim prophet. My faand turned them down because he loved ther was a Palestinian Muslim who taught his country. I still remember many things English and Islamic studies in the Holy Land, and my mother was an American during the war; the noise of the bombing who married my father during his studies and shelling that went on day and night for six days, the looting of stores and houses in the United States in 1956. by the Arabs in Jericho and people running While my mother was pregnant with to cross the Jordan River from fear of the me, my parents left to live in Israel in 1960 Israelis. which was called Jordan at that time, and The war was called the six-day war when they arrived in Bethlehem I was born. As my father changed jobs we moved to because it was won in six days and on Saudi Arabia then back to the Holy Land the seventh day a Rabbi by the name of this time to the lowest place on earth, Jeri- Goren blew the ram’s horn on the Wailing cho. I did not forget the first song I learned Wall in Jerusalem declaring the victory. in school just before the six-day war titled Many Jews claim that this was a parallel to “Arabs our beloved and Jews our dogs.” I Joshua when he went around the walls of used to wonder at that time who the Jews Jericho six times, then on the seventh day were, but repeated with the rest of the kids seven times, and on that day the priests the words without any knowledge of the blew the trumpets and everyone shouted meaning. with one voice and took the city. To my faAs I grew up I lived through several bat- ther in Jericho it seemed that the walls had tles between the Arabs and the Jews, the crumbled on him (Joshua ch 6).
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