Paul L. Williams (born 1944) is an American

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Career

His first book, ''Everything You Always Wanted To Know about the Catholic Church But Were Afraid to Ask for Fear of Excommunication'' was published by Doubleday in 1989. ''The Vatican Exposed'' was published in 2003. In 2007 he published ''The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World'' (

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, 2007). ''Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia'', was published in 2014. His most recent work, ''Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church'', was published in 2017.

Controversy

In Williams' 2006 book ''Dunces of Doomsday'', he claimed that Adnan Shukrijumah,

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Jaber A. Elbaneh Jaber A. Elbaneh, also known as Gabr al-Bana (; born 9 September 1966) is a Yemeni-American who was labeled a suspected terrorist by the United States after it emerged that he had attended the Al Farouq training camp alongside the Lackawanna Six, ...

and Anas al-Liby had all been seen around

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the previous year, and that Shukrijumah had been seen at

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where he "wasted no time in gaining access to the

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and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for the creation of radiological bombs". He was subsequently sued by the university for

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, with the lawyer representing the university in the case saying that, "Mr. Williams' allegations about McMaster reon a par with UFO reports and JFK conspiracy theories.... The notion that because there are people on faculty from Egypt that McMaster is then a haven for terrorism is not only logically offensive, it smacks of racism." The publisher later apologized for allowing Williams to print statements which "were without basis in fact"; Williams remained defiant saying, "I love them coming after us. At the end of the day these people are going to be bloodied because what I am saying is true. They are not going to walk away from this unscathed because I will proclaim what is going on at McMaster from the rooftops." In 2010, he was quoted as saying he had become "a pariah in the publishing world".

Books

*''Everything You Wanted to know about the Catholic Church'' -

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, (1989) *''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades'', Penguin, (2001) *''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Lives of the Saints'', Penguin, (2001) *''The Life and Work of Mother Teresa'', Alpha, (2001) *''Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror'' -

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(2002) *''The Vatican Exposed. Money, Murder, and the Mafia'' -

(2003) *''Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You'', Prometheus Books, (2004) *''Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming Apocalypse'', Prometheus Books, (2005) *''Dunces of Doomsday: 10 Blunders that Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, and an American Hiroshima'',

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, (2006) *''The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World'',

, (5 June 2007) *''Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia'', Prometheus Books, (2015) * ''Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church'' (2017)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Paul L. American political writers American male non-fiction writers American traditionalist Catholics Traditionalist Catholic writers Traditionalist Catholic conspiracy theorists Living people 1944 births American conspiracy theorists