Paul L. Williams (author)

20th and 21st century American writer and professor

Paul L. Williams (born 1944) is an American author, journalist, and consultant. He has penned articles for major news outlets, including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and National Review. He has appeared on Fox News, NPR, and MSNBC, and penned articles concerning Islamic paramilitary compounds that he claims have been established throughout the country. He was also an adjunct professor of humanities and philosophy at Wilkes University and The University of Scranton.

Born and raised a Roman Catholic, Williams is a descendant of a family of Irish coal miners in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Williams received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wilkes University, a Master of Divinity degree from Drew University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree also from Drew. His dissertation, based on Latin texts, was on the moral philosophy of Peter Abelard. He began his career by writing articles on Catholicism for National Review and serving as the senior editor for The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. 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, published in 2003, became the subject of a documentary for the Discovery Channel. In The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World (Prometheus Books, 2007), he expands on the "American Hiroshima" scenario he believes to be imminent, in which simultaneous nuclear attacks on seven to ten American cities would create havoc in American society. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, published in 2014, was optioned for background information for a possible mini series for American Movie Classics. that was never developed. His most recent work, Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church, was published in 2017. Williams is the only journalist to capture three first place Keystone Press Awards in three different categories in the same year.

In Williams' 2006 book Dunces of Doomsday, he claimed that Adnan Shukrijumah, Amer el Maati, Jaber A. Elbaneh and Anas al Liby had all been seen around Hamilton, Ontario the previous year, and that Shukrijumah had been seen at McMaster University where he "wasted no time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for the creation of radiological bombs". He was subsequently sued by the university for libel, with the lawyer representing the university in the case saying that, "Mr. Williams' allegations about McMaster [are] on 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";efn|The Jackman chronology, focused on Ahmad Abou El Maati, says the FBI in 2003 named his brother Amer el Maati as a member of a terrorist cell in Canada, of which another member, Adnan El Shukrijumah, attempted in 2002 to procure radioactive materials at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor in Hamilton, Ontario. however, he remains a popular speaker on the Christian circuit.