Kamal Saleem looks scared
The last time we visited the “Grand Wazir” Kamal Saleem it was for our “Three Stooges” piece about the profound loonieness of the “ex-terrorist” racket which consists of a bunch of middle aged men whose only claim to fame is that they speak Arabic. Their personal bios are all uncorroborated and in many instances have been shown to be outright false, filled with logical inconsistencies, blatantly based in Evangelical polemics, horrendously racist, hysterical and genocidal.
Now a days Kamal is trying to pass himself off as an expert to the Missouri legislature, unfortunately in the following piece “St.Louis Today” takes Saleem’s story at face value without questioning it or corroborating it,
Former terrorist urges legislators to ban Sharia law in courts
(STL.Today)
A former terrorist, Kalam Saleem, phoned in to a House committee today, urging legislators to ban Sharia law in state courts.
Saleem was formerly associated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization and later with Saddam Hussein, according to the biography he offered by phone to members of the House Judiciary Committee.
During the call, he offered support for a bill sponsored by Rep. Don Wells, R-Cabool, which proposes changing the state constitution to block courts from making decisions based on foreign laws – specifically Sharia law, the religious code of Islam.
Saleem, who now practices Christianity, said that Sharia law should not be allowed in state courts because it is restrictive and oppressive, and that it discriminates against women and homosexuals.
Wells took a similar stance, if a less subtle one: That Islamic law is a dangerous influence on secular judicial proceedings.
“This is to protect the people of America,” Wells said of his bill.
He went on to compare Sharia law to a disease, like polio. Rep. Jason Kander, D-Kansas City, stopped him to confirm.
“Sharia law is like polio?” Kander asked.
“Absolutely, as far as I’m concerned in this country,” Wells responded.
Kander, who spent time in Afghanistan gathering intelligence for the military, said he found that “offensive.”
Wells’ bill is one of two measures currently under consideration by the Judiciary Committee that would ban foreign laws in Missouri courts.
The reality about Kamal Saleem is that he doesn’t know much about Islam and most likely is involved in fraud, as we wrote then,
Kamal Saleem claim’s to be the descendant of someone called the “The Grand Wazir of Islam,” which Hedges points out is ”a title and a position that do not exist in the Arab world.” It can be further noted that the religion of Islam has no clerical hierarchy similar to the Catholic Church with defined positions such as the Pope, Bishops, Priests, etc. Kamal’s blooper in his bio is either a result of an ignorance of Islam and its structure or an attempt to manipulate the ignorance of his audience.
I can see Kamal’s claim to fame running out soon, kinda like the disgraced pastor Ergun Caner. A website by the name www.muslimwatch.com, a project of CAIR-Michigan has more analysis on Kamal’s story and why it doesn’t add up (hat tip: Daveed):
Saleem claims to be from a Lebanese Sunni Muslim family, which is a descendant of the “Grand Wazir of Islam,” and that he was a terrorist with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).Furthermore, Saleem states that his terrorism affiliation with the PLO inspired by Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood ended after receiving the “Holy Ghost” and accepting Jesus Christ (Peace Be Upon Him) in his life. Saleem’s story like his other wannabe “ex-terrorist” comrades, however, just does not add up.
For starters as author Chris Hedges points out, there is no such title as the “Grand Wazir of Islam.”Saleem’s “Grand Wazir” lineage claim is also bizarre due to the fact that the adjective “grand” would not be used in front of the term wazir (advisor) to begin with. Even the title “Grand Wazir” was not bestowed upon Aaron (Peace Be Upon Him), who was a prophet and the wazir of Moses (Peace Be Upon Him) according to the Qur’an!
It’s also very interesting that Saleem claims to have been a terrorist inspired by Islam as a member of the secular, Marxist influenced PLO, whose long time executive committee member and long time spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, was a Christian. Saleem wants us to believe that Ashrawi, George Habash and the countless others from Christian backgrounds in the secular PLO were also inspired by Islam as he claims was his “terrorist” motive in dealing with the pesky problem of illegal Israeli occupation.
Furthermore the Muslim Brotherhood, who Saleem claims he had dual affiliation with, was averse to the secular, Marxist leaning PLO during the time that he claimed to have been a member. In fact, it is also well known that the Muslim Brotherhood inspired Hamas was supported by Israel to be an “Islamist” counter to the secular PLO/Fatah. To this day, Hamas and the PLO have been at odds with each other to the point of killing each other in the streets of Palestine in recent years. Hence, Saleem’s claim of being an “Islamist” terrorist in the PLO while having felicity to the Muslim Brotherhood is utterly preposterous.
The reality is that Saleem has made a nice career for himself collecting honorariums, writing a book and getting exposure from the hyper-Islamophobic Aramaic Broadcasting Network (ABN) since the tragedy of 9/11. If he were indeed an “ex-terrorist,” I’m sure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have deported him by now for fraud because people with terrorism ties cannot get entry visas much less obtain American citizenship. And the FBI does not simply let “ex-terrorists” walk the streets because they claim to have received the “Holy Ghost” without detaining them for questioning. Changing idelogies does not absolve persons under American law from terrorism ties that they admit to.
The unfortunate part about Saleem’s bogus career is not his snake oil peddling but that there are so many individuals who do not care about the truth and lack intellectual honest that provide him a platform.
March 23rd, 2011 at 9:41 am
Whatta loon-where do these nuts come from???
March 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 am
Islamaphobes simply must get their stories strait: is Shariah a threat against homosexuals, as Saleem asserts, or do Muslims support “the gay agenda” as the loon pastor in Minnesota asserts?
They really do need to keep better notes at there hatefests.
March 23rd, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Hey LW here is a tragic article I wonder what the Islamophobes will say about this considering how they covered the poppy protests with such a bias you guys should post this story on the site
US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/21/us-army-kill-team-afghanistan-posed-pictures-murdered-civilians
March 23rd, 2011 at 4:47 pm
EDL saying some very choise word about Muslims I wonder why the poppy protester got so much attention and little to no attention was paid to this
Man you can feel the hate with them these guys are insane this is the link to the speech that got him arrested I feel sorry for this he seems very ignorant I pray for him
*Be Warned Foul Language*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_kScYYn9o&feature=related
LW should do a article covering this
March 23rd, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Here is another link to the EDL speech not sure if it is the same one
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:31 pm
“Whatta loon-where do these nuts come from???”
Selective breeding…
March 24th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
“Whatta loon-where do these nuts come from???”
CIA and Mossad
March 26th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
The link to the Muslim Watch website is themuslimwatch.com, not as written in this article.
Thanks for all the good work!
May 14th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
yeah, and the Muslim Brotherhood was at odds with Baathism too, and he claims to have worked with Baathist Parties like Sadaam Hussein’s in Iraq.
July 7th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
For MuslimWatch.com to imply that the men who join the PLO are not inspired by Islam is disingenuous. Joe Schmoe Average Guy (or Bani Adam if you will) does not join the PLO because he is Marxist nor secular; he does so to rectify the great injustice done to Islam.
. In one’s anger over their opposition demonizing them, let’s be careful that we don’t do the same.
If use of the term “Grand Wazir” is the primary thing used to discredit Mr. Saleem… there’s nothing incriminating about use of that term at all. It wasn’t meant to be used as an official title (e.g. I’m the Grand Wazir in Lebanon). Rather, it’s simply an unofficial adjective that he used to describe wazir. Anyone who speaks two languages and has ever translated anything can tell you people communicate differently than the way they would in their mother tongue.
Just some thoughts
September 13th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Correction: GRAND WAZIR. This is the English translation of an Arabized version of the top statesman/advisor serving the Ottoman Sultan. [It is usually written in English as Grand Vizier.] In Arabic is is “AsSadr Al’Aathem.” Now, the office of Grand Vizier existed among the Ottomans before their sultans laid claim to the title of Caliph, a title which put them symbolically, if not really, at the head of Sunni Islam. Note: This was a bureaucratic title, not a religious one. The sultan was a temporal ruler who dealt with political and economic matters.
For most of the Ottoman period, religion was the domain of a religious scholar, the Sheikh ol-Islam. Still, though, this religious scholar was part of the institutional organization of the Empire. In Islam, there is no Pope, etc, so he did not speak with infallibility, but with the power of the state behind him.
As for the “Grand Vazier,” This was a powerful person, frequently married to a sister of the sultan. Some stayed in office a long time, others “lost their heads.” Most had their roots in the Balkans or Caucusus and a few were actually Turkish. I have no idea if any intermarried with Arab families. One would have to find out which GV the Saleem is referring to. Some members of the Ottoman family did move to Beirut or Damascus after they were expelled from Turkey by Ataturk, but that order did not extend to all senior bureaucrats.
All of that aside, it is highly unlikely that this Lebanese person was a follower of the MB and was with the PLO. It makes no sense for a lot of historical reasons that are too long to go in to. His picture also suggests that he would have been too young to be part of that action.
The most compeling argument against his story and those of the other “ex-terrorists” is that if the story were true, they simply would not be walking around the US free just because they came to Jesus. Remember, for decades, even Nelson Mandela had to get a waiver just to visit the US, due to the past of the ANC.
September 16th, 2011 at 9:58 am
You are obviously muslim sympathizers. I feel sorry for the lot of you. In the end we will see who is false after all.
Muslim lover
September 16th, 2011 at 9:58 am
You are obviously muslim sympathizers. I feel sorry for the lot of you. In the end we will see who is false after all.
Muslim lover!
November 13th, 2011 at 9:36 am
Peace be on you. What we have here is a failure of communication. To do so properly one must understand what the other one is meaning by the words used.
There were Arab Jews and Christians, and Bibles in Arabic LOOOOONG before the advent of Prophet Muhammad.
There still are Arabs of these faiths in the world, and former PLO leader Yasir Arafat’s wife was a Christian until he died. The Zionist Jews did not allow him to attend Christian Christmas services with his wife in Jerusalem, as was their family custom, the last Christmas season of his life.
In the Bible in Arabic (the Holy Book, translation of its’ title) in Genesis 1 the Hebrew word “Elohim”, and the English word “God” is in Arabic “ALLAH”. In Mark 13:19 the English word “God” is in Arabic “ALLAH”. In Isaiah 42:5/43:12 the English word “God” is in the Arabic “ALLAH”, and He Allah makes it very clear in the Holy Book in Isaiah 44:6/45:18, 45:22, and 46:9 that He’s the Creator (the only true God) and that there is no one, nothing, like Him, and that He’s incomparable. In the Holy Book John 17:3 is the key to understanding Jesus and his way.
Islam: The word is derived from the Arabic root letters/word slm/salem (peace). From it are derived the words: As-Salaam (the Peace), it is one of the names (attributes) of Allah. He is called the God of Peace (ilaha As-Salaam) in the Holy Book and As-Salaam in the traditions of the Muslim followers of Prophet Muhammad.
As-Salaam: As it relates to Allah; He is The Originating Source of The Peace that goes beyond all understanding. As it relates to “man” (humans, look up the meaning of words and trace them to their original meanings, the original meaning is lurking in it’s use) it is that Peace that allows one to be at peace with Him no matter what one’s state of being, and or set of circumstances is at any given point in time. As it relates to His revelations it is the only system of knowledge that He has revealed to “man”. The Holy Book says that Allah will give Peace (As-Salaam) to His…, this word (As-Salaam) is used often in it to mean a way to be, and it also says that the angels in making their annunciation of the birth of Christ said “As-Salaam” on the earth and goodwill to men. As it relates to greeting people it means that the greeter is blessing the greeted with the hope that Allah’s Peace be on the greeted person or group. The greeting of “As-Salaam-u alaik” ([May] The Peace of The God of The Peace be on you (an individual), is in the Holy Book. It relates to the system of the way of life that we are to live to be the “Adam” (“man”, a [spiritual] thinking being [having a physical experience]) that He’s creating and moulding into shape and form. It’s often called “As-Salaam” (generic for the Peace) in both the Holy Book and The Qur’an (only the Foosha Arabic is The Qur’an). In The Qur’an (only the Foosha Arabic is The Qur’an) Allah gives it the name of “Al-Islam” (The Peace) in Al Ma’idah 5:3 when He states what means “Today I have perfected your religious law for you, and have bestowed upon you the full measure of My blessings, and willed “Al-Islam’(The Peace, one’s voluntary self surrender to His authority, and submission to His Will) as the obligatory way for “man” to be. “Al” in Arabic is the definite article.
Muslim: The word is derived from the Arabic letters/word slm/salem and is found in various forms in the Holy Book and The Qur’an as the name (look up its’ meaning, and trace it to its’ root meaning) given to the people who volutarily take it upon themselves to strive to be the beings that their scriptures, and or spiritually evolved leaders encourage them to be, for the glory of our Creator (the only true God). In Al Hajj 22:78 Allah tells the Muslim followers of Prophet Muhammad what more or less means “It is He who has named you – in the past as well as in this revelation – Muslims.
So the Muslim followers of Prophet Muhammad are the “new kids on the block” to carry the name Muslim. There is another name for those who claim to be the followers of The Creator’s (the only true God’s)revealed word, but their “name” proves that they are not and it is hypocrite, for those who know the truth, accept the label of such (Muslim) and lives as a rebellious disbeliever.
I could go on but hopefully you get my drift. One has to be in tune with the same language so that one gets a more full understanding of what’s being said.
Hopefully, this will cause our hitherto uninformed readers to know that the only true God is known by many names and it depends on what language that one speaks that He is called upon and or prayed to. Jesus and Paul had no problems at all praying to Allah and speaking of establishing “Malakut Allah” Allah’s Kingdom. Allah does not take it lightly at all, as you yourself don’t, that someone, especially one who is greatly inferior to you, should consciously play with His name(s).
As-Salaam alaik!
November 13th, 2011 at 9:59 am
The “founding fathers” of the USA studied both their Bibles and Qur’ans in order to form the words for America’s “Declaration of Independence”. And it the “Declaration of Independence” was their guiding light for sriving for their right to worship the only true God as they understood Him to be.
It contains eight (8) words in it that they held to be “self evident” truths and they are “…the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”, those words are The Shariah stated concisely. Shariah is a word that is used in the Holy Book and The Qur’an to mean those eight (8) words. Their will was to establish those words in this land and that is all that they had to rely on in their stuggle against the tyranies of England.
They used the Roman Common Law, which again was influenced by the Sharia as it was picked up from the Muslims (Saracens) in Sicily and later spread throughout Italy.
If one wants to seem intelligent one should know something about the history of words before bad mouthing them.
November 14th, 2011 at 7:57 am
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January 5th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Regardless of whether you consider Saleem a fraud, why bad-mouth someone who is trying to support the U.S. Constitution over Sharia law? the Constitution is the “law of the land” in the United States, not Sharia.
January 5th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Mike Press,
Are you kidding? The shear fact that he’s a fraud should tell you something. How do you know that he’s really out to defend the constitution like you say he is? How do you know that he really wants the united states to be a secular constitutional republic, and not a Christian theocracy? But even if that’s not the case, doesn’t the shear fact that he’s a fraud make him untrustworthy? He could defend the constitution without lying. He could also argue against implementing sharia as the law of the land without lying. If you have to lie to defend something, to make it sound like a good thing, chances are its something that’s not worth defending. Plus even if there really was a major threat to the united states from even a minority of fanatical Muslims it would be foolish for people to relay on people like Saleem. In fact, in any case, real defenders of liberty should distance themselves from him.
January 5th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Mike Press,
Also why should any believe what Saleem says about sharia, given the fact that he is a fraud?
February 7th, 2012 at 8:17 am
So in other words what you’re saying is, “believe NOT anyone’s converting to Christianity, for they’re ALL nothing but a bunch of lying hypocrites, looking to destroy America”??
All of these men who are stepping forward to say that they’ve “seen the Light and turned from the error of their way, by coming to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior”, and who are warning America of what’s to come”, should be kept on watch to see just how truthful they are and even then keep one eye open???? Got it, so what should we do if God/Jesus proves ‘you’ wrong?????
February 7th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Bea K
Sorry you are making no sense. Would you like to make clear what you are saying .
February 7th, 2012 at 10:30 am
Bea ~ Personally… if I am wrong, so what? I followed my heart. Maybe we are all wrong. But that is just me. Allahu Akbar and Jesus (pbuh) loves you.
February 26th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Saleem is a big liar. His family members in Lebanon assure this.
February 27th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
well, i have done the research and i have to say to you the same thing as i say to people that sya the bible is messed up
the facts are all correct, he is not the only one, his story matches up with other ex terrorists with more fame them him including the person who wrote the book son of hamas
April 28th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Kamal is the real deal, whoever wrote this is probaly a Muslim extreamist trying to shut him up.
God bless you Kamal keep up the lords work.
April 28th, 2012 at 10:01 pm
@Marc
You want to insist that Kamal is a real ex Muslim ex terrorist, please provide us with an objective source that proves us wrong. Don’t come here and spew garbage about how the person who wrote this might be “Muslim extremists” lying to shut him up. Without evidence, real evidence contradicting what what Loon Watch says about him, or what he has said, you have no case.
By the way, if he really was a Muslim extremist lying to shut up people opposed to their agenda, if Loon Watch was really a Muslim extremist site posing as an anti bigotry site, why would they post your comment here? Keep in mind that comments here are only posted here after they are approved.