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Kamal Saleem on his Book The Blood of Lambs

My book serves as a Wake-up call to America concerning the Radical faction of Islamists and the terror with which they reign. It is not aimed at mainstream moderate Muslims who are our good friends and neighbors.

There is a difference between Islam and Islamists; there is a difference between moderate Muslims and radical Muslims, peaceful Muslims and Islamo-Fascist.

I describe in my book “The Blood Of Lambs”, that I am opposing and serve to warn others about Islamo-Fascism, I was a Islamo-Fascist! Therefore, who better to describe this faction than I? Their distinction is clear, as demonstrated by the many examples of the Islamist terrorist in the 9/11 attacks, Mumbai India, Spain rail trains, the UK subway and busses, and thousands of other terrorists cruel attacks in 2008 and years before felt worldwide. I oppose the Islamists in the United States that are now being Homegrown and becoming Jihadists against this Great Nation! http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2009/02/christian-action-network35-islamic.html I Oppose all terrorist training camps within our borders, that serve to come against America and her Citizens; fiercely oppose those individuals committing honor killings against women in our very home the United States of America! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493645,00.html

These are the Islamo-Fascist working towards killing your Freedom, who wants to kill you, your family, your beliefs, your economy, your future, and your very way of life. Statistics show, there are approximately 1.5 billion total Muslims worldwide of which 15% are Islamo-Fascist . That equates to more than half of the American population. The second kind is moderate those who want to live in peace and contribute to our way of living and desire only to be good citizens of this nation.

I believe Islamists, the ‘Islamo-Fascist’ must be dealt with like the criminals they are! They are the enemy of Islam, the United States and the World as we know it. Their agenda is to intimidate their enemies. Defined as anyone who is not a Muslim to intimidate us by their words, with their swords, with their oil, or by their mighty wealth! These Extremists are spreading their propaganda with hopes of undermining us in our own Nation, while feeding off our very own Constitution and the freedoms given us by it. It was once said, ‘this is President Bush’s war against terror’…

As you can see the war against America and the western world did not stop after President Bush completed his presidency, but rather has accelerated with no fear. No doubt it is the law of the Jungle! http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=islamic+professor+anthrax&hl=en&emb=0&#

As a father, husband and a business owner I know when I need to be firm and when to be a friend. To be a prudent successful business person, you study your competition, learn their very way of life, it’s in that process, we try to become one step ahead in the game of life. We wish to be distinguished, to extend help to all who need it in the time of greatest necessity. My book ‘The Blood of Lambs’ is no different than any other provision for the United States. America gave me hope, provided me with freedom in which to succeed with which to dream, as a result of those rights afforded me, I am forever changed and a better man overall!

Every good soldier fights for what is good, pure and wholesome, bringing hope to the hopeless and strength to the weak. A good soldier stands for those who cannot stand for themselves! I am no different from any soldier who loves and protects his home and country from a tenth century philosophy lead by Islamo-Fascist, who hate their own religion, people, home and country and in the process want to make everyone in their likeness, and are willing to blow themselves and us up to achieve their objective. I stand on the wall daily, committed like a good soldier, trained with knowledge and experiences from my past and hope for a greater future for his family and our country.

I need your help, the help of American maturity, not the discriminative, fearful one. We, the people of the United States of America need to stand Together, United; we must educate ourselves to the Truth of this faction that grows stronger each day and protect our freedoms! ‘The Blood of Lambs’ is the first instrument towards this goal. Join me.

Kamal Continues with proofs of his story
 
Reading Group Questions

1)      As a young boy at his mother’s kitchen table, Kamal learned to embrace the teachings of radical Islam and hate infidels. Was there anything you learned in your childhood home that you later found to be untrue? How does knowing that some Islamists are taught their beliefs from childhood affect your view of them?

 

2)      Throughout the book, Kamal tells of the infiltration of radical Islamists into the United States. How do these revelations affect your views of your own safety here? What, if anything, will you do differently in the light of these views?

 

3)      When Kamal is beaten up three times on the way to work at his uncle’s business, he takes refuge in a mosque. Later, the imams of the mosque take Kamal out into the ethnic neighborhoods to avenge him. How did you feel about these scenes? Were the imams delivering justice? Why or why not?

 

4)      What did you learn about Muslim and Lebanese culture that surprised you?

 

5)      Over the course of Kamal’s childhood, financial pressures change his relationship with his father. How did you feel when Kamal’s father pulled him from school and sent him to work at age 7? Are there any childhood family relationships that changed the trajectory of your life?

 

6)      At his home, during madrassa (Muslim religious school), Kamal learned of various teachings from the Koran and hadith. Which of these teachings were new to you? Which most surprised you and why?

 

7)      Prior to reading this book, were you aware of the number of domestic terrorist attacks thwarted by U.S. authorities since 9/11? If not, what about these plots most surprised you? Were you aware of the number of homegrown jihadists operating in the U.S., as opposed to those who have immigrated from other countries? How does that affect your view of the threat of jihadist terrorism on U.S. soil?

 

8)      How did you feel when you read the scene in which Kamal’s unit of child soldiers comes under rocket attack in the Golan Heights? How did you feel when his young friend Mohammed was killed? What have you learned from this book about jihadists’ use of child soldiers?

 

9)      In the Fatah/PLO terror camp at Sabra, Kamal was mentored by a radical named Abu Yousef. How do you think Kamal’s life might have been different if Abu Yousef had not mentored him? Would Kamal be alive today? What does Abu Yousef’s mentorship tell us about the power of male role modeling in the life of a child?

 

10)  During the story, Kamal is tracked to his hometown and also threatened via email by a group of radical Pakistanis. Were you aware that this type of activity is taking place in the U.S.? What are your thoughts on that?

 

11)  What new understanding have you gained from this book about the roots and nature of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict? How has this book affected your view of whether peace is possible in this conflict?

 

12)  During the story, Kamal travels to Libya to train terrorists from around the world in desert camps sponsored by the dictator Moammar Ghaddafi. Were you aware that such camps existed and still exist today? What are your thoughts on the existence of these “universities of terrorism?” How does it affect your thinking about Islamism to know that camps exist only to train people to kill Jews and Americans?

 

13)  Kamal’s story reveals the link between Saudi Arabian money and Islamist terrorism. How has the book affected your view of our staunch U.S. ally?

 

14)  We learn from Kamal’s story that “honor killing” is now taking place in the United States. Why do you think the U.S. media has placed so little emphasis on covering these crimes?

 

15)  Were you surprised to learn that the man who made a jihadist threat to Kamal after he spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy was released back into American streets? How does that affect your view of the First Amendment and whether jihadists are using American liberties against this country?

 

16)  Clearly, Kamal Saleem has killed people and is now telling his story. Do you believe a man can repent of such a life and go on to do good in the world?

 
 
Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Critics have said you are falsely claiming to be a former Muslim terrorist. Are your claims false?

A: No. When I was seven and living in Beirut, my father pulled me out of school and sent me to work. By then, our family had seven children. My father was a blacksmith and we did not have a lot of money. I was sent to work for my uncle, a plumber, for about three lira a week. Each day, while walking back and forth through the mixed ethnic neighborhoods of Beirut, gangs of bullies stole my lunch and any money I had. Often they beat me. One day, I suffered two beatings in a row, in two different neighborhoods, one Armenian and one Kurdish. That day, I took refuge in a mosque, where some men took me in and cleaned the blood off me. Those men were with the Muslim Brotherhood. After that day, they protected me and I walked the streets without fear. Later, those men took me to a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) camp where I was trained to fight with the fedayeen for the cause of the liberation of Palestine.

I continued fighting with the PLO well into the 1970’s. After that, I began conducting “civilizational jihad” (of the kind we see transforming the UK at this very moment) across Europe, making jihadist converts in poor neighborhoods, jails, and schools. In the late 1970’s through early 1980’s, I came to the United States and began radicalizing young men and poor families in small towns, before turning them over to imams who ran mosques. This Islamist campaign to infiltrate and destroy America was eventually formalized and is documented in an article in the American Thinker (Online at http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/09/homeland_security_implications_1.html) and in an original document written by Islamists available at FrontPageMag.com (Online at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=61829F93-7A81-4654-A2E8-F0A5E6DD3DC4).

The results of this "civilizational jihad" are being seen in Europe today. The results in the United States are documented in Robert Emerson's book American Jihad, and the ongoing work of Emerson's The Investigative Project. (www.investigativeproject.org)


Q: Critics have complained that you discussed only radical Islam at the Air Force Academy seminar, and that no other perspective about Islam was offered.

A: The topic of the seminar was terrorism, not Islam. It is radical Islamists who are killing people every day around the world. During the seminar, no one suggested that moderate, peaceful Muslims are to blame for global terrorism.


Q: You have been accused of habitually portraying Muslims as inherently violent. Is that true?

A: No. I do not say that, nor do I believe it. But it is true that the Koran and Hadith, two of Islam’s sacred books, explicitly tell Muslims to kill Christians and Jews.


Q: Some critics have said your stories of fighting on the side of the PLO as a young boy are too incredible to be believed. One critic said you had claimed to infiltrate “Israel to plant bombs via a network of tunnels underneath the Golan Heights.”

A: I have never claimed to infiltrate Israel to plant bombs. I have told the story about how I and other children were used as “mules” to carry knapsacks filled with small arms and weapons parts into Israel via tunnels underneath the Golan Heights, between Syria and Israel. The PLO’s use of children in combat is documented by Media Watch International in the article “Yasser Arafat: The Terrorist Reemerged” (Online at http://www.mwio.org/position_papers.htm). The PLO’s former use of child soldiers is also documented at www.Child-Soldiers.org. (Because of its lengthy archived URL, this “country report” on the use of child soldiers around the world is most easily accessed by googling the 2002 report’s title: “Child Soldiers: country briefings for the CRC”.


Q: Critics have questioned how you could claim to have been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon in the late 1960’s, when the Brotherhood was centered in Egypt until the 1980’s.

A: History shows that the Muslim Brotherhood had by the 1960’s waned in influence in Egypt, but reemerged throughout the Middle East after the 1967 Six Day War, in which Israel defeated Arab forces. Those facts, and the Brotherhood’s existence as a splinter group in Lebanon during the 1960’s, is documented at: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/ham1-j05.shtml AND in an article by A. Nizar Hamzeh, associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut, in the Middle East Quarterly (Online at http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/320/324/324.2/islamism/shia-islam-leb.html)


Q: Critics have criticized you for mixing talk of your Christian faith with discussions of radical Islam and its dangers. What’s your response?

A: I am not ashamed of my Christianity. In fact, I would say that my conversion from Islam to Christianity qualifies me to speak on both faiths with authority. However, I do not “mix talk” of Christianity and jihadist terror when speaking to secular audiences. When speaking at a Christian organization or institution, I do. It should not be surprising that I tailor my talks to the audience at hand.


Q: You have been accused of making “nonsensical” claims,” such as being descended from “the grand wazir” of Islam. Have you made such claims.

A: Yes. And I take responsibility for choosing that inaccurate term. I did so to obscure both the title and geographical location of the cleric to whom I am related. At the time, I had not yet spoken publicly of my Lebanese birth and I feared – and still fear – for the safety of my family in the Middle East. I chose “grand wazir of Islam” to hide the fact that I was speaking of my blood relationship to a prominent Muslim Cleric in Lebanon. (For the record, the term “wazir” is related to the more familiar “vizier,” which means “knowledgeable advisor.”)


Q: You recently spoke at the Air Force Academy and were accused of having an agenda to proselytize the military, to convert people to Christianity. Is that true?

A: No. I was among many speakers invited to a weeklong seminar on terrorism that would result in a report to Congress on anti-terrorism methods. I did not speak about Christianity.

But what if I had? I am a private citizen, not a government official. As an American citizen, the First Amendment guarantees my right to worship as I choose and to speak freely. Articles in the New York Times, the Colorado Springs Post-Gazette and elsewhere seemed to suggest that my Christian faith somehow disqualifies me from speaking publicly about my experiences with the PLO and with radical Islam in general. I suggest that in America, no man’s faith disqualifies him from speaking publicly from his own knowledge and experience.


Q: Some people, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have said your talks about radical Islam are full of “hate speech.” Is that true?

A: It is ironic that anyone would suggest that my speaking about an entire jihadist movement that daily maims and murders civilians, including women and children, is “hate speech.” Are we to speak sensitively about anyone who murders the innocent?

After my talk at the Air Force Academy, a Palestinian-Jordanian man who had been invited to the seminar, walked up and told me in Arabic that people like me “should be killed” because I am disgracing Islam and Allah. I have never said such a thing to any Muslim, nor would I. And yet I am the one who is accused of “hate speech.”

As far as the Council on Arab-Islamic Relations, I am surprised that respected publications are using the group as a source to speak out against me, a person who is fighting jihadist terrorism. CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the recent Holy Land trials and was listed among “entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee.” The Holy Land case ended in a mistrial. But in a December 2007 filing in federal court, prosecutors described CAIR as “having conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.”

I would suggest that a group whom the U.S. government has linked repeatedly with terrorists should not be regarded as a credible source on the topic of radical Islam or America's fight against terrorism.