Article entitled, “Mixed Message: The testimony of a self-described former terrorist,” by Doug Howard, for ChristianityToday.com:
On Christmas Day 2009, our youngest son, Jay, found himself on Delta Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Toward the end of the flight, Jay’s seatmate, a Nigerian Muslim about his age named Umar abd al-Muttalib, tried to blow up the plane using a bomb hidden in his underwear. Reflecting on Jay’s experience, and on Umar and the failed efforts by his father to warn authorities, has helped me clarify my attitude toward American Christian anti-Islamic literary polemics, including Kamal Saleem’s “memoir,” The Blood of Lambs. The book fits the familiar pattern of reassuring Christians of the superiority of their own faith tradition by negative comparisons with a dehumanized Islam. But Kamal Saleem’s titillating dance with violence and fame makes the book more complicated and more uncomfortable than most like it. By embracing the glamorous violence it claims to abhor, it raises readers’ hopes of touching secret human meanings through it.
I first encountered Kamal Saleem when he appeared at Calvin College in November 2007. A look at his website told me immediately that he was not who he said he was. The signature of his deception was his statement that “in my family was the Grand Wazir of Islam.” The term is ridiculous, a spurious title meant to mislead the innocent with an aura of authority. The audience, including many from the Grand Rapids Muslim community, watched Kamal Saleem’s performance with quiet restraint. He told stories, now repeated in The Blood of Lambs, of being recruited as a child for missions against Israel via tunnels under the Golan Heights, disguised as sheep; of visions of a rider on a white horse who, drawn swords in hand, commanded him to sever the heads of the infidels. In one painfully disturbing account, the mother of his friend screamed with joy that her little boy had met a violent death and joined the martyrs in heaven. He continued with the story of his immigration to America to recruit for jihad. Instead he was converted to Christianity as the result of a car accident, when he was taken into the home of a Christian physician and cared for out of selfless love. These tales were interspersed with exhortations for America to “wake up” to the threat of radical Islam and testimonials to the power of Christ in helping him forsake his old life.
Kamal Saleem sometimes appears with two other “former terrorists,” who also appear in the book. One is Zachariah Anani, a Canadian. Tom Quiggin, a former intelligence and security expert with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, stated in the Windsor (Ontario) Star that Anani is “not an individual who rates the slightest degree of credibility.” The other, Walid Shoebat, was exposed in the Jerusalem Post. According to his brother, who still lives in Beit Sahour, Shoebat left Palestine in 1978 to further his education in the United States. He met and married the daughter of a Baptist minister and converted to Christianity. The most extreme thing he ever did was attaching Palestinian flag stickers to utility poles around town. A 2006 letter from Rev. Alex Awad, president of the Council of Evangelical Churches in Palestine, warned American churches about him. Yet these three men march brazenly on, not only in churches but at Christian colleges and major universities.
In The Blood of Lambs, Kamal Saleem writes, “I wanted to be like Bond.” In these pages he is Bond, James Bond, in size 6X. He gets those emphatic rivals, the PLO and the Muslim Brotherhood, both to recruit him. He recalls the intricate details of raids he carried out at age seven. Abu Jihad himself teaches him how to use an AK-47. He is shown off by Yasser Arafat as a model warrior. In Libya at age 14 he has Muammar Qaddafi gushing in gratitude. In Iraq, he waves to Saddam Hussein. He only meets one man smarter than himself, an American commander of the mujahidin at al-Qaeda, “the base,” in Afghanistan. No major war of liberation in the Arab world seems to have gone off without his expertise. He schmoozes with rich oil sheikhs in the Emirates and Saudi Arabia and makes love to the beautiful daughter of one of them in London. Even if one were disposed to give these entertaining claims the benefit of the doubt, the book’s frequent mistakes give the reader pause. The Islamic umma does not mean one world government, and it is not “coming.” The PLO was a secular organization even though Yasser Arafat prayed and quoted the Qur’an.
The book tries to make readers feel ashamed for asking nagging questions, but I am unmoved. Every other chapter is devoted to coyly reminding us of the dangers Kamal Saleem faces when he speaks publicly against “Radical Islam.” Describing the controversy surrounding his 2008 appearance at the Air Force Academy, he writes that “a college professor specifically called me a ‘fraud.’ ” I was that college professor, and having now read his book, I see no reason to withdraw the assessment. I want to know why a person who so vividly recalls maneuvers carried out when he was seven years old has such vague memories of his twenties. How did he come to the United States, exactly? When asked that question at Calvin, he answered “as a student, like you.” In the book, he refers to students being funded by Arab oil money, which of course is true. But he avoids saying he was a student himself, and it would seem to have been impossible, since he says he was forced to drop out of school as a youngster to work for a cruel uncle. He writes that he got a temporary visa in Abu Dhabi and had $35,000 in his bank account from “an Islamist sheikh whom I had introduced to three very accommodating French girls.” Did he really get a visa to come to Wassau, Wisconsin, to “freelance” around college campuses and in poor neighborhoods, evangelizing for the Muslim Brotherhood and recruiting for jihad? Then he “moved to a major southern city.” Why not say which one? Was he working, and if so, where? Within a few pages four years pass, and he has his car accident. After his conversion to Christianity he meets his wife. Nobody knows that he was a “former terrorist,” not even his wife, and not Immigration and Naturalization officials, not until 9/11.
Lest I be accused of endangering his family, I will not disclose Kamal Saleem’s real name. Nor do I want to be “destroying reputations with unresearched words,” as the book warns. So with the blessing of the Calvin College president, I telephoned his former employer, Focus on the Family, and with the help of colleagues John Hubers, an RCA pastor, and Habeeb Awad of Hope College, investigated his background. I spoke with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, and with his assistant Ron Reno, who described his own job as “looking at everything we do with a cynical eye.” What I was saying jibed with their own reservations about Kamal Saleem’s story when they first heard it in staff devotions. Their concerns had to do not with his fabricated terrorist past but with his implausible conversion story. The physician treating Kamal Saleem took him into his own home because his medical bills were excessive and he had no health insurance? Then why the reluctance to identify the doctor, or the city and hospital where it happened?
I bear Kamal Saleem no malice. He is my age, a refugee and a victim who now, thanks be to God, has found new life. Much of his difficult biography is shared by the Arab Americans who were in the audience that evening at Calvin College. They also are immigrants who have settled down to find a better life and have lived here for decades as respected professionals and merchants. Like him, many fell in love and married. Some are Christians, some are Muslims. Some, like him, became Christians. Others did not. Still others married Christians who themselves converted to Islam.
The book purports to describe only “radical” Muslims, and once even concedes that “[m]any Muslims are kind and gentle people.” But we meet no such Muslims in The Blood of Lambs. It repeatedly asserts that the core value of Islam is to kill Christians and Jews. This is common fare in Christian pulp fiction, where the fatuity of Islam matches its mind-numbing power. Still, some of the book’s distortions are bizarre. It claims, for example, that the “rules of Islam” mean “no ham, no bacon, that sort of thing,” and that Islam’s higher rules are: “Do not drink alcohol. Do not use your right hand in the bathroom. Do not look upon women. Do not tolerate a disrespectful woman. Do not tolerate your grandma’s Christianity.” There are no adequate terms for such absurdities. Suffice it to say that if the subject were Jews, this book could not have been published.
Yet the book’s seductiveness is more complex than this, and it does not really matter in the end whether or not Kamal Saleem is a fraud. The Blood of Lambs is obsessively, sadistically violent. It describes so many deaths and killings, in such pornographic detail, that we wonder whether indulging this secret lust is the whole point. Everyone longs to live a relevant life. It is as if Kamal Saleem has been very close to something that the reader, too, deeply yearns to experience, and that something seems to be encapsulated in the book’s violence. Through violence the book pretends to give vicarious access to a more real knowledge of life. But our family has been through an attempted terrorist attack, and this is not just us, it is Umar abd al-Muttalib’s family too—and many others, actually. My wife has survived cancer. Last summer in the Upper Peninsula we saw a bear in the wild (from our car!). Our niece just gave birth to twins. These are not our experiences only, they are every person’s in some measure. It is insulting to be told that we have to look down the barrel of a gun to see life’s inner meaning, or that only a killer can really understand Islam. Authentic experience comes when we see a man or a woman before we see a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew; when we hear a human voice before we hear “a thick Middle Eastern accent”; when the person next to us on the plane is a young man—with a father and a mother waiting for him—before he is a Nigerian or an American. Anything else leads down the road toward extremism. Although Kamal Saleem has forsaken much, he has evidently not yet forsaken that.
February 23, 2011 at 1:13 am
Like most Christians who have seen Kamal Saleem’s YouTube video describing his life as an ascendent terrorist and conversion to Christianity, my initial reaction was an emotional “Amen” and “Praise the Lord!” But then I viewed another video of his appearance on Pat Robertson’s TV program and became skeptical of his conversion experience where he cries out to “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” and devotes his life to God. I became skeptical because a true child of God would recognize Jesus as the one and only God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the Bible does not teach anything about a trinity or worship on a false sabbath (Sunday). Why then, would a Sunday-keeping trinitarian endorse Saleem and his book on a major TV show with millions of viewers? If Saleem still recognizes the truth of Deut 6:4 (“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.” and worships God on His true Seventh-day Sabbath – Saturday – as a result of his conversion, I will be more than happy to apologize to him. However, it is nearly impossible to contact him personally.
March 20, 2011 at 12:00 am
I think you might have misinterpreted Saleem when he cried out to “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” He’s not a different God to all three men, but the same God. Imagine if I said to my brother, “you are the brother of Jenny, Gena, and Jessica.” He is a brother to all 3 but he’s still just one person. Although the word “trinity” is not mentioned in the Bible, the concept is true. In Genesis God said “let us make man in our imagine.” What’s the deal with that? Or if you read John 1, it says “In the beginning was The Word, The Word was with God and The Word was God. But then The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” That’s referring to Jesus, who is God. In Romans, Ephesians, and Corinthians there are gifts given to believers by God the Father, the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. As for the Sabbath, Jesus fulfilled the law of the Sabbath when He died on the cross. He is our rest. Most Christians today “celebrate the Sabbath” on Sunday because that’s when Christ rose. This was kind of a spur-of-the moment reply, but if you would like to further discuss this topic, my e-mail is jonpon55@juno.com. Hope that was helpful.
April 1, 2011 at 11:33 pm
You are correct. Jesus instructed his apostles to baptize “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” The doctrine of the Trinity is scriptural and divinely revealed. It is the greatest mystery of the Christian faith – one God in three divine Persons. Jesus is God the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, who became incarnate of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. If you listen to Kamal’s witness, he clearly acknowledges Jesus as “Lord” even after he calls out to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
March 8, 2011 at 8:44 pm
With regards to Kamal Saleem; he lies on his website so he can sell books. For example, he said at the age of 7 he was recruited by the PLO in Beirut, Lebanon in 1965. PLO was found in 1965 in the W. Bank and only had the armed wing deployed 1st in Southern Lebanon in 1969, and it was not deployed to Beirut until the mid-70s. I just found this great article exposing him as a fraud:
April 1, 2011 at 11:28 pm
And your proof that he is a fraud is where? I am sorry. I don’t believe such nonsense. Everyone knows that for a Muslim to convert to Christianity is a very great sacrifice that can threaten his entire life and all his personal relationships with other Muslims, even members of his family. Why would Kamal risk everything just to “sell books”? Your premise is illogical; your accusation is false, and I suspect you are a Muslim who is angered by the power of Kamal’s conversion and his witness to Christ, the one, true God.
November 9, 2011 at 3:55 am
Actually, the PLO was founded in January, 1964, at the 1964 Arab League Summit in Cairo, Egypt, where 13 Arab states came together to fight Zionism. By 1965 when Kamal was 7, it was a hugely recognized organization in the Arab world. Get your facts straight.
July 27, 2012 at 5:51 pm
You are saying that within one year, the PLO was accepted as representative of Palestinians by all Arabs? This wrong; it was accepted as such in the early seventies. They were fighting King Hussein for such a title.
When the PLO was established it didn’t have an actual fighting units; and they were not deployed any were near the borders with Israel. Arafat & Fateh took over the PLO in late 1968 and soon after Shuqayri was sidelined. Again; no one here provided facts; just factless rhetoric.
If you stick to fact you shall find this person is a fraud irrespective of your wishes.
April 15, 2012 at 3:05 am
Of course a Muslim would blast him for his teachings. All you want is to destroy the Jewish race and kill the infidels. He’s not the only one to point this out.
In my opinion the Quran should be burned and the planet should be rid of Islam forever. You losers are no different then Hitler. I hope you all burn in hell. You take advantage of our great country because we are free happy and welcoming. Your Region is unhappy and full of goat herders and a ancient way of life.
July 27, 2012 at 5:53 pm
You make assumptions based on no facts; you don’t know me. I am stating just facts irrespective of you desired wishes!!
Again; check your facts and post them here for others to benefit; rhetoric we can find any where on the net.
March 11, 2011 at 2:05 am
This past summer I sent my daughter to college wanting to be a “youth and family minister” major, with social work minor. Three months later she informed me that she has converted to Islam. She is not the same girl that I have ever known. She has always been a leader, willing to think out of the box.Now she has a group of girl friends that almost “surround” her.
I was two chapters into this book when I thought I better check out the author first.I don’t know alot about all of this but I do know there are more Muslim’s at her Lutheran college than there are Christian’s. My daughter was taught right off not to use her right hand for anything unclean such as the bathroom. The food she eats now must be kosher etc. It seems that he does have a lot of holes in his stories, but I think it won’t hurt to keep our eyes open.
April 1, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Keep praying for your daughter and try to reason with her. A Muslim cannot have a personal relationship with God, but a Christian can. There are many excellent resources to debate with Muslims about the truth of Christianity. Since your daughter was raised a Christian, the grace of her baptism is still there, so appeal to God to show her the way.
November 2, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I disagree with you. In Islam you are more liberated to have the direct connection with the Almighty who Created the Heavens and the Earth. In Christianity, Jesus (peace be upon him) serves as the conduit to get to the Almighty.
November 19, 2011 at 1:25 pm
i am muslim and i have a personal relationship with God. since you state that is impossible, it shows that you do not, alessandro. i am a muslim, i have spiritual friends of all beliefs and we speak of many things and are a joy to each other. spirituality transcends religion, and i love all other spiritual people, as you would, if you were.
April 5, 2011 at 7:57 am
This article offers no proof that Kamal is a fraud… it does ask questions but that is not proof. It actually sounds more like an academic with his panties in a wad over someone daring to challenge his “coexist” and “multiculturalistic relativism” way of thinking that is so pervasive throughout college campuses.
Oh, and BTW Patty, you’d better start learning about Islam… and don’t let your daughter leave America with a Muslim man… you will never see her or any children she may have again. How many more women do we have to see this happen to before we start believing this to be true? Ask Betty Matob…she helps hundreds of women escape every year.
April 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I personally feel that Kamal Saleem conversion comes right down from his heart. I do not thing that it is a fraud. I believe that others who are not happy with his conversion are the ones that are making the fraud allegation against him. He was a faithful Muslim as you can see from the knowledge of Islam that he has. But today Praise the Lord! that he is now a Christian because he heard the voice of God in his life. I can truly feel he’s genuine even as he shares his testimony and it truly touches me today as it is Good Friday today the day that Jesus died for all of us while we were still sinners. Kamal Saleem is just like Paul in the New Testament that used to kill Christians until Jesus touches him on his way to Damascus.
May 14, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Dear All
Kamal Saleem is my uncle his real name is Khodor Kamal Al Shami his daughter name is Sara and he is a liar and all the stories about his past is completely fake.I have all legal papers from the Lebanese government that prove my words. he had never entered the Islamic Brotherhood , he was a soufi with Rajabiya . Islamic Brotherhood in lebanon has different name.He used to work with my dad. A guy called Mr. Stockmann helped him to travel to the USA. His old girlfriend name is Juan .She used to sleep at my grandpa’s house but they never tortured her :). His Father Haj Kamal was a blacksmith that used to work with christian people in Downtown Beirut. All Christians in the old market place know his father as a friend and they used to visit him until his death. His older brother married a christian woman called Madlen Khoury. If his family was as he did mention previously so why his brother married a christian.
for more info contact me @ mai18rr@yahoo.com.
April 4, 2012 at 2:56 am
That is boloney. I am a christian and I know exactly what Islam teaches and what the Q’uran says. It is okay to beat your wife into submissin and the FACT that you people strap bombs to yourself and kill yourself (suicide) and others (murder) goes DIRECTLY against what The BIBLE teaches. How dare you take life yourself or others away from them in the name of Allah. It is a GIft of God this life and you all need to get saved. Kamal Saleem came to my church, he is a MAN of God and there is a bounty of 1/4 million dollars on his head. But the great news is no one can touch him because he is protected by the hand of God which you do not presently know. The God you serve is an ancient moon God that does not exist and the seed of Ishmael. The Good news however for you is that Isa the true Jesus was the Kurban (sacrifice) for ALL mankind, there is neither Jew, Greek or Gentile (any nationality) can be saved if you call upon his name. The Sunnis and the Shi’ite fight among themselves. It is written “There is no other name by which a man can be saved except Jesus”. I recommend that you call on Him today as Kamal did. He is a loving God not a murder and deceptive and he loves us very much and he promised if you called upon him, he would not turn you away. Thank you and God bless you and open your eyes to the truth.
May 14, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Dear All
This Guy is my uncle his real name is Khodor Kamal Shami . He lived in Beirut . But since he was young Islam Brotherhood was not existent in Lebanon , later on when travelled to the USA the Islamic brotherhood existed under another name. He was a soufi with Sheikh Rajab . Sheikh Rajab never believed in military actions. As for the PLO even an Israeli will no that this story is a fake. His dad was Kamal Shami his grandfather Saleem Shami. Kamal Shami my grandfather was a blacksmith in Beirut downtown. Most of his friends in the market place were Christians. they have been always close friend of Kamal shami not as his son claimed that he asked him to kill Christians. His older brother Mahmoud Shami married a christian called Madlin Khoury . If his family were terrorists how come his brother married a christian. His old girlfriend called Juan an american citizen she almost spent nights at my grandfather house sleeping there shed loved the family and no one terrorized her 🙂 .As for his trip to the states he used to work in gulf there he was introduced to Mr. Stockmann who followed Khodor to lebanon and insisted that he must travel to the States. Almost 99% of te stories about his family was a fake. He used to work with my dad and he never dared to handle a gun. As for Afghanistan during the war he was still living in the USA and we know that from phone calls he did then .To sum up this issue we know why khodor said what he said . It is all about fame and fortune. I have complete formal papers about his identity for the Lebanese Government. mai18rr@yahoo.com
April 15, 2012 at 3:09 am
Liar he’s my uncle and he was born in Dallas. Stupid Muslim puke.
May 19, 2011 at 4:22 am
I don’t know if Saleem is telling the complete truth or not. I want to believe he is the real deal. I have read Wallid Shoebat’s book “Why I left Jihad.” So these guys are fibbing to sell books? Maybe but I don’t think there is evidence for that. I find it odd that they all got together to exagerate their Lebonese upbringing just to sell books and make money off of speaking engagements? I question the writer of this article. Has he read the Qu’an? The people of the Book are to be destroyed. Hello? If many muslims are peaceful it is inspite of the Qu’an not because of it. The Qu’an speaks for itself. So whether any of these ex terrorists are coloring the truth and aren’t telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth doesn’t really matter. The Qu’an is of the antichrist spirit -the antichrist spirit being defined as an imitation of the true Christ. Therefore, to trust that Islam is a peaceful religion, is to deny the words of Jesus Christ Himself. The author of this article should really have more evidence before he calls Kamal Saleem a fraud. And Focus on the Family should have an obligation to follow up on whether Mr. Saleem is being honest.
February 10, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Pls Mary don’t pretend to know the Qur’an (correct spelling not qu,an) when you don’t even know your bible.
Take a look at this “guidetosalvation.com/Website/violent_verses.htm
May 19, 2011 at 4:35 am
As for Wallid Shoebat-I wouldn’t trust an angry muslim family member’s assessment of him. Why should we believe that his muslim brother is tell the truth?
November 2, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Here is something to look into
July 3, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Kamal Saleem is a fraud! Anyone with elementary knowledge of Middle Eastern history would see it in a minute of reading one paragraph from this charlatan. This guy is so.fake it makes me wonder why we can’t find any true converts. Did anyone ask? Muslims believe Jesus was the Messsiah. Jews do not. They believe in the Virgin Birth, Jews do not. So why do we.bash.them and buy into Kamel Saleem? Ever heard of being used?
April 15, 2012 at 3:12 am
Maybe you should spend some time in the middle east. It’s not fun and your stupid. George? Really?
July 17, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Wazir is an actual title used esp. in the Ottoman Empire. Kamal very well could have had a relative in that time period holding the title, Wazir.
July 20, 2011 at 7:26 pm
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October 18, 2011 at 8:37 am
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November 17, 2011 at 5:15 pm
What a bunch of half-wits! Listen People – All of you writing these comments here … Have you ever bothered trying to find out for ‘yourself’ (read reliable, authentic books, TALK to some Muslim you know even casually and ask them what they believe). If someone wanted to know what Christians believed in should they ask Hindus or Zoroastrians or Ex-Christians about it or should they ask practicing Christians themselves? Then why do we take our knowledge of Islam from those who are not Muslims. The only reason you would rely on the words of another person (whose credentials and veracity are suspect at best) would be if you have decided in your hearts that you do not want to know the Truth. Why would you do that? Is it easier to go on living without finding out what’s going on, why you are being told what you are being told? How many of you have read the Bible itself? Cover to Cover? I bet a lot of you take the ‘interpretation’ of the Bible from others as well. Could this be the same reason why you don’t check your facts about other faiths, and other people in this world? Do yourself a favor. Put these paid talking heads aside for a while and search for facts yourself. Do your investigation. You have the tools already: your Intellect. Use it please!
January 7, 2012 at 10:04 am
Kama was on the Christian TV show ” Wretched”. He is a born again Christian, and was a muslim (Islam). All who deny these claims are liars.
Another person Muslims love to bash is Saga Sultan. She wrote a book about experiences as a muslim (Islam), and the ABUSE she suffered from her husband who was deeply Islamic.
Islam IS a religion of lies, hate, murder, and deception…..add jealousy to that mix!
IN ISLAM, YOU DIE FOR god,
IN CHRISTIANITY GOD DIED FOR YOU!!!
April 4, 2012 at 3:01 am
Amen to that brother, you hit the nail on the head!!
January 15, 2012 at 6:14 am
I have followed some Catholic apologetics that led me to the works of Joel Rosenberg, Joel Richardson and others including Kamal Saleem. Considering what I have learned in the past, Kamal Saleem’s story is not hard to believe. He does not come to me as a liar. He validated what I have witnessed from other converts and if his book is fictitious, just the same it brought a lot of people to closer to their faith and more importantly, so many converted to the truth that will bring them salvation. His is a message of the great love of Christ. God is his judge. I truly love our Muslim and Jewish brothers and sisters, I know that the Lord is showering His abundant graces upon you.
January 25, 2012 at 1:37 am
Greetings my American friends,
I know Kamal Saleem and he is telling the truth. I can attest to this fact as I am currently the Most Highly Sacred Grand Timbuktu of the Emir of Istanbul. This is an impressive title and those who believe in Kamal Saleem will recognize it as impressively long, foreign sounding, and thus – certainly true. The doubters will call Kamal Saleem fake because they just cannot believe that a little child became a major terrorist for 4 competing organizations with 4 very different perspectives. They doubt simply because he tells a fantastic tale of his early life in the USA and won’t reveal any information about this life. Simpletons! Needing proof! Who needs proof when you have gut feelings! Close your ears to them and repeat the mantra of the Most Highly Sacred Grand Timbuktu of the Emir of Istanbul, “lalalalalalalalaimnotlistening America#1 ive never gone overseas or known people of other races”. Repeat this mantra three times. Then look at a picture of Sarah Palin and bask in the glory of intelligence and truth.
February 29, 2012 at 1:34 am
LOL at sarcasm! I really like your reply man. Your reply is the most fun I read at the moment.
April 4, 2012 at 3:04 am
Your a fool or a geek
September 15, 2012 at 4:00 am
Ah, at last an honest man tells the truth about Saleel the terribly misunderstood. Good one; thanks for the laugh…most on here are pretty scary.
December 22, 2013 at 4:06 am
LOL!
February 13, 2012 at 4:29 am
My comment is a prayer to the Most High God: Lord, You have seen all these comments with their viewpoints. Most seem to be of people who only want the truth, whatever it is, to prevail. Because You are omnipotent, I ask in the Name of Jesus that you reveal the truth to all of us, whether it come by man, by circumstance, or by a moving of the Spirit so great that no one has any doubt. We are all seekers of You and desire your communication with us, in your time. Thank you. Amen
April 4, 2012 at 3:05 am
I add to that in the Name of Jesus we pray………Amen!
March 5, 2012 at 4:13 pm
you muslims know his story is true, that is why you deny it. We all know your belief that It is ok to lie to your enemy. I have news for you, America will NEVER be under sharia law. You will NEVER conquer us. There are too many Americans who are willing to stand up and fight against you for as long as it takes. How many of your own are you willing to send to their death in vein?
April 4, 2012 at 3:07 am
Exactly but not only this my brother the Word of God declares which is the Sword of the spirit, “IF GOD BE FOR YOU, NOBODY CAN BE AGAINST YOU’. He promises that he will smite our enemies. Islam thought they could destroy Israel…………did it work? No. God fights our battles. “Our weapons are NOT carnal but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds, casting DOWN vain imaginations and every high thing that EXALTETH itself against the knowledge of the TRUTH”. Amen and Amen! Hallelujah
April 15, 2012 at 3:26 am
who thinks that a child could never become a terrorist has never spent time in the middle east. These people will do whatever it takes to kill infidels. Been there looked down the rifle and have seen it. Savages who do not care about anything or anyone. Ancient civilization jealous of the west. I’ve seen men closed fist punch the wife in the face and have a CO tell you not to intervene because that’s the “culture” in this part of the world. Oh how I wish we had a president with some “sack” you losers wouldn’t stand a chance.
May 9, 2012 at 5:29 am
We are all known by the fruit we produce in our lives. God too knows us by our fruit. If some Muslims believe that violence to the infidels (or to their wives) is good, then their god is a god of violence. I believe in the God of love, the God of Jesus, who has great power to produce good in people. This God can take a terrorist, re-birth him, and turn him into a man of love who is happy to serve the common good. This He has done many times over. That is a god in whom I can and do securely put my life and happiness. Being the God of love, He loves every Muslim with his whole heart. He loves every Jew with his whole heart. He loves every Hindu, every Buddhist, and everyone of any persuasion and desire. His name is Jesus.
August 13, 2012 at 12:30 am
Oh come on!
Muslims and Jews have lived together peacefully for centuries – alongside Christians.
Muhammad (Pbuh) didn’t kill apostates: Why? – this religion is more complex than your bigotry allows you to see.
Love God and don’t get wound up towards anti-Semitism or Islamophobia. Speak to Some Muslims before you paint them all like idiots who just take some words from God’s revelation and act on it – without the centuries of mellow and peacful tradition that come with it.
Muslim history (as with American history) has some violence but nothing as violent as the Christian crusades – were the anti-Semitc, Islamophobic crusades from the teachings of Jesus?
No!
So follow the teachings of Jesus and don’t follow some secular power that wants to make you scared of some ‘dangerous’ other whom you have never made an effort to meet and really get to know!
Beatiful article Rev.!
Peace
August 13, 2012 at 12:36 am
So Christians never beat their wives?
I live in the UK where 1 in 4 women are victims of domestic abuse.
So the teachings of Christianity is false and Christians deserve to be shot dead then?
No??
then leave your bigotry!
August 13, 2012 at 12:43 am
I can’t believe Americans think there is some war by Muslims to impose a law on them
WHEN IT IS REALLY AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO ARE FORCED TO KILL -THEIR- WAY AROUND THE MIDDLE EAST TO IMPOSE THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM
cut the hypocracy, it stinks and only those who have been infected with hate will believe you.
It’s time to love Muslims – it converted Kamal Saleem (so he says) so stop being such hateful bigots and love your neighbour like you ought to
Christians have an overwhelmingly peaceful past of co-existence under Muslim rule: show us that Muslms can live in peace under America (the greatest country in the world you call it).
Jews, blacks, Muslims and Irish are all people too – don’t be like the one who hates on them.
God bless
August 14, 2012 at 2:14 pm
If this guy the blog owner asks the same questions by himself, this blog won’t exist. I will say the building in my street is the tallest if I have not gone out of my street and my mom has taught me that the building is the tallest in the world as she has also not gone out of the street. I will only know that there exists another building out there in the world which is the tallest only when I search for it and find it. It is pure politics which does not allow me to explore the world, it knows that when I search for it I will find it so it does not allow me to search it.
Search for it you will find it, the whole world doesn’t get dark when I close my eyes, this is what this guy does. Do you think Kamal Saleem lies for selling his books risking his life? No one will tell that he does not want seven virgins until and unless he comes to know that it is not true.
September 15, 2012 at 4:16 am
The loving Christ I was raised with in the Southern Baptist church absolutely rejects the right wing that masquerades as Christian here on this blog. There are too many on here who need to put Christ back in Christian and remember we are under the grace and love of Christ and not the devisive tribal hatred of the Old Testament. We convert by the example of love, not by the hate that I see on this blog.
September 16, 2012 at 7:55 am
[…] debunk his story. The only source I can find for this is two reader comments posted to a blogpost here: Kamal Saleem is my uncle his real name is Khodor Kamal Al Shami his daughter name is Sara and he […]
August 30, 2013 at 12:11 pm
There seems to be many Muslim people on here who say that they have a relationship with God. How is that possible for you when in the old testament only men like Abraham, and Moses had direct communication with God. Uzzah was stuck dead for touching the Ark of the Covenant! God is a Holy God. He is Holy Holy Holy! We must never bring God down to our level and think that he can have fellowship with sinners. There was a veil seperating the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. The only way to have a true relationship with God is by Jesus. God the Father did send him after all and say “This is my beloved son. In him I am well pleased.” How can anyone say “I’m going to have a relationship with God despite the way that God wants me to have a relationship with him, which is through Jesus. “There is a way that seem right to man, but in the end leads to death.” Prov. 14:12 (Wowsers, the last post was a year ago, lol.)