Craig Winn
Encyclopedia
Craig Winn is an American
author
and former businessman. He has self-published five books, including several on terrorism
and Islam
. His longest book is called Yada Yahweh. Each of his books has been made available free on the internet
.http://yadayahweh.com
After the events of
September 11
, Winn began a research project with colleague Ken Power to "uncover the roots of terrorism". They visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda
, Hamas
, Islamic Jihad
, Fatah
, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
, Force 17
, the Palestinian Authority, the Knesset
, IDF
, and US generals, as well as Israel
i secret service agents in the Mossad
and Shin Bet. The two published their findings in the novel Tea With Terrorists
.
Winn has made numerous appearances in the media around the United States, including 1500 radio interviews by his own count. http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Resources.Islam Some of the shows are made available on his website.http://www.prophetofdoom.net/events.aspx?g=4703 Winn has been interviewed by Business Week.BW Talk: The Spy Who Came In From...
Prior to becoming an author, Winn was a businessman who founded the now defunct ValueAmerica.com.
In 2010 Winn repudiated the letters of St Paul, in his online book Questioning Paul.
with business degrees in marketing and finance. There he worked as a manufacturer's representative.
In 1986, he founded and built a lighting company called Dynasty which he brought public in 1990; it went bankrupt in 1993.
In 1996, he became a Dot.com entrepreneur when he founded Value America
, an early sort of electronic mall that was briefly second only to Amazon.com
. The company raised investments from Paul Allen
and Frederick W. Smith
, among others.
Valueamerica.com had a successful IPO in April 1999, starting at $23 per share, reaching up to $74.25 at its highest point. Winn's share of Value America was, on paper, worth over $1 billion after the company's IPO. By December 1999, Winn had resigned from the board after disagreeing with all but one of the rest of the board regarding restructuring
. Value America filed for bankruptcy in August 2000, less than a year after its IPO. It was one of the first large dotcoms to fail
.
Winn's book In the Company of Good and Evil: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal is about his experience with Value America. Winn stated, "I, along with a small but great team of people, built a large and innovative retail company. But the founders turned the firm over to 'professionals' after taking it public in harmony with prevailing wisdom. They promptly ran it into the ground while lining their pockets. To cover their crime, they blamed it on me."
, co-written with Ken Power
. This is a novel that purports to document an investigation of the motives of terrorists. Winn has also authored Prophet of Doom, which is a survey of Muhammad
's life as derived from the Qur'an
and Hadith
. Other works of his are In The Company of Good & Evil (also written with Ken Power), Future History and Yada Yahweh. He has published these books through the Cricketsong Books imprint, a division of Virginia Publishers.
, Islamic terrorists are inspired by the actions of Muhammad and the verses in the Qu'ran. Winn quotes extensively from the Qur'an
and Hadith
throughout his books.
He publishes a rendition of
the verses of the Qur'an in Chronological order which was compiled by analyzing the material of Hadith
.
Winn worked with his team of researchers to compile a time line of Islamic terrorism.http://www.prophetofdoom.net/article.aspx?g=41111http://www.prophetofdoom.net/article.aspx?g=41111&i=4111102
Regarding terrorism in Islam, Winn argues that the cause is "not Osama Bin-Laden
, not Al-Qaeda
, not some radical fringe group of extremists, but Islam itself."
stated Winn "seems to lie in hatemongering and fomenting incitement for the purpose of cashing in on fear and ignorance." In addition, Bassam Zawadi, has written a book in which he answers his allegations that Islam is violent, which can be found at http://www.scribd.com/doc/6092939/The-Deception-of-Craig-Winn-Revealed-by-Bassam-Zawadi
Winn claims to have documented attempts of "Muslims filing complaints with the domain registrar to release private information" regarding his location and their repeated attempts to hijack the site http://www.prophetofdoom.net/article.aspx?g=406&i=46008. Some Muslims have circulated a petition to have one of his books banned and censored
. Daniel Pipes
claims that this anti democratic and violent response to Winn's books raises important concerns regarding freedom of speech
and the press
.
Audio and Video of Winn
United States
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author
Author
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and former businessman. He has self-published five books, including several on terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
and Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
. His longest book is called Yada Yahweh. Each of his books has been made available free on the internet
Internet
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.http://yadayahweh.com
After the events of
September 11
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
, Winn began a research project with colleague Ken Power to "uncover the roots of terrorism". They visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...
, Hamas
Hamas
Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
, Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine known in the West as simply Palestinian Islamic Jihad , is a small Palestinian militant organization. The group has been labelled as a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia and Israel...
, Fatah
Fatah
Fataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the left-wing of the spectrum; it is mainly nationalist, although not predominantly socialist. Its official goals are found...
, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is a coalition of Palestinian nationalist militias in the West Bank. The group's name refers to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem...
, Force 17
Force 17
Force 17 was a commando and special operations terror unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement and later of the Office of the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority. It was formed in the early 1970s by Ali Hassan Salameh ....
, the Palestinian Authority, the Knesset
Knesset
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
, IDF
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...
, and US generals, as well as Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i secret service agents in the Mossad
Mossad
The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....
and Shin Bet. The two published their findings in the novel Tea With Terrorists
Tea With Terrorists
Tea with Terrorists: Who They Are * Why They Kill is a novel by Craig Winn and Ken Power. The book purports to "uncover the roots of terrorism," and was written after the two authors visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades,...
.
Winn has made numerous appearances in the media around the United States, including 1500 radio interviews by his own count. http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Resources.Islam Some of the shows are made available on his website.http://www.prophetofdoom.net/events.aspx?g=4703 Winn has been interviewed by Business Week.BW Talk: The Spy Who Came In From...
Prior to becoming an author, Winn was a businessman who founded the now defunct ValueAmerica.com.
In 2010 Winn repudiated the letters of St Paul, in his online book Questioning Paul.
Business career
In 1977 Winn joined his father's company, Winn Co., after graduating from the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
with business degrees in marketing and finance. There he worked as a manufacturer's representative.
In 1986, he founded and built a lighting company called Dynasty which he brought public in 1990; it went bankrupt in 1993.
In 1996, he became a Dot.com entrepreneur when he founded Value America
Value America
Value America or VA was a dot-com company founded in Nevada in 1996 by Craig Winn and Rex Scatena, and relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia in February 1998. Its business model involved connecting customers on the Web directly to manufacturers, with the intent of providing better pricing and...
, an early sort of electronic mall that was briefly second only to Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
. The company raised investments from Paul Allen
Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates...
and Frederick W. Smith
Frederick W. Smith
Fred Sidney Smith III , or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States...
, among others.
Valueamerica.com had a successful IPO in April 1999, starting at $23 per share, reaching up to $74.25 at its highest point. Winn's share of Value America was, on paper, worth over $1 billion after the company's IPO. By December 1999, Winn had resigned from the board after disagreeing with all but one of the rest of the board regarding restructuring
Restructuring
Restructuring is the corporate management term for the act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or other structures of a company for the purpose of making it more profitable, or better organized for its present needs...
. Value America filed for bankruptcy in August 2000, less than a year after its IPO. It was one of the first large dotcoms to fail
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more...
.
Winn's book In the Company of Good and Evil: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal is about his experience with Value America. Winn stated, "I, along with a small but great team of people, built a large and innovative retail company. But the founders turned the firm over to 'professionals' after taking it public in harmony with prevailing wisdom. They promptly ran it into the ground while lining their pockets. To cover their crime, they blamed it on me."
Published works
His first book is titled Tea With TerroristsTea With Terrorists
Tea with Terrorists: Who They Are * Why They Kill is a novel by Craig Winn and Ken Power. The book purports to "uncover the roots of terrorism," and was written after the two authors visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades,...
, co-written with Ken Power
Ken Power
Ken Power is an American author who co-authored 4 books with Craig Winn.After the events of September 11, Power began a research project with colleague Craig Winn to "unconver the roots of terrorism"...
. This is a novel that purports to document an investigation of the motives of terrorists. Winn has also authored Prophet of Doom, which is a survey of Muhammad
Muhammad
Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...
's life as derived from the Qur'an
Qur'an
The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...
and Hadith
Hadith
The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
. Other works of his are In The Company of Good & Evil (also written with Ken Power), Future History and Yada Yahweh. He has published these books through the Cricketsong Books imprint, a division of Virginia Publishers.
Analysis of Islam
According to Prophet of Doom and Tea With TerroristsTea With Terrorists
Tea with Terrorists: Who They Are * Why They Kill is a novel by Craig Winn and Ken Power. The book purports to "uncover the roots of terrorism," and was written after the two authors visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades,...
, Islamic terrorists are inspired by the actions of Muhammad and the verses in the Qu'ran. Winn quotes extensively from the Qur'an
Qur'an
The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...
and Hadith
Hadith
The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
throughout his books.
He publishes a rendition of
the verses of the Qur'an in Chronological order which was compiled by analyzing the material of Hadith
Hadith
The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
.
Winn worked with his team of researchers to compile a time line of Islamic terrorism.http://www.prophetofdoom.net/article.aspx?g=41111http://www.prophetofdoom.net/article.aspx?g=41111&i=4111102
Regarding terrorism in Islam, Winn argues that the cause is "not Osama Bin-Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
, not Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...
, not some radical fringe group of extremists, but Islam itself."
Muslim response
Winn's work has been criticised. Muhammad Sultan of CAIRCAIR
- Fictional :* Cair Andros, a fictional island in Tolkien's fiction* Cair Paravel, a castle from C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia- Acronyms :* Council on American-Islamic Relations, American Muslim civil rights advocacy organization...
stated Winn "seems to lie in hatemongering and fomenting incitement for the purpose of cashing in on fear and ignorance." In addition, Bassam Zawadi, has written a book in which he answers his allegations that Islam is violent, which can be found at http://www.scribd.com/doc/6092939/The-Deception-of-Craig-Winn-Revealed-by-Bassam-Zawadi
Winn claims to have documented attempts of "Muslims filing complaints with the domain registrar to release private information" regarding his location and their repeated attempts to hijack the site http://www.prophetofdoom.net/article.aspx?g=406&i=46008. Some Muslims have circulated a petition to have one of his books banned and censored
Censorship
thumb|[[Book burning]] following the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup]] that installed the [[Military government of Chile |Pinochet regime]] in Chile...
. Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes is an American historian, writer, and political commentator. He is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and its Campus Watch project, and editor of its Middle East Quarterly journal...
claims that this anti democratic and violent response to Winn's books raises important concerns regarding freedom of speech
Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used...
and the press
Freedom of the press
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including various electronic media and published materials...
.
External links
Winn's On-line BooksAudio and Video of Winn