Fake Ex-Muslim
Terrorist Kamal Saleem Invited to
Speak at the
John Ankerberg Show:
Christian Dishonesty and
Deception:
Saleem is still defrauding mostly gullible
Evangelical Christians of their money.
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I Was a Terrorist
...Seriously!
By
Tim Murphy
As
Michigan state legislators considered a plan to curb illegal immigration last fall, they heard dramatic testimony from a man named Kamal Saleem. He warned the lawmakers that
Islamic extremists were sneaking into the country with nefarious plans. "If we don't pass this bill," the fiftysomething
Lebanese American told them, "we will be legalizing terrorism to be part of our culture."
Saleem's testimony was rooted in an extraordinary backstory: He purports to have spent half a decade recruiting Islamists in
America—before finding Christ and laying down arms. "I came to the
United States of America not to love you all," he declared at a rally on the
Capitol steps after the hearing. "I came to...destroy this country as a terrorist."
Over the last five years, Saleem's tale of terror and redemption has made him a minor celebrity among
Christian conservatives. Part national-security wonk, part evangelist, he is one of a handful of self-described "ex-terrorists" who have emerged in the post-9/11 era to share their experiences. He has spoken in state capitols, at the
Air Force Academy, and at colleges and churches around the country. He has been a guest on
Pat Robertson's
700 Club and started his own nonprofit,
Koome Ministries, of which he was the only full-time employee in 2009. Tax records show Saleem earned $48,
000 from the ministry that year—and had a $39,000 expense account—while Koome took in nearly $
100,000 in donations and grants.
According to his memoir,
The Blood of Lambs, Saleem, who grew up in
Lebanon, broke into the terror biz at the age of seven by running weapons—strapped onto sheep—for
Palestine Liberation Organization leader
Yasser Arafat (who kissed his forehead at a public ceremony, "his breath bearing tales of garlic and onion"). As a teenager, he helped run a terrorist camp in the
Libyan desert at the behest of
Moammar Qaddafi. He visited
Iraq, where he rubbed shoulders with
Saddam Hussein. In the late
1970s, he traveled to
Afghanistan, working alongside the mujahideen and
CIA spooks to beat back the
Soviets. A
Kansas City Star columnist skeptically dubbed him the "
Forrest Gump of the
Middle East."
Saleem claims that the
Muslim Brotherhood has put a $25 million bounty on his head, and that there have been attempts to earn it: After a
2007 event in
Chino Hills, California, he writes in his book, he returned to his
Holiday Inn to find his room ransacked and a band of dangerous
Middle Easterners on his trail. Saleem describes calling the police to alert them to an assassination attempt.
Local law enforcement, however, has no record of any such incident.
for detail see
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/
2012/03/kamal-saleem-former-terrorist-islamophobia
- published: 19 Sep 2013
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