Kamal Saleem

Kamal Saleem (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a Lebanese-American self-claimed former Muslim terrorist. He is a convert to Christianity and minister who evangelizes to Muslims. It has been uncovered that he worked for the Christian Broadcasting Network from 1987 to 2003, and for Focus on the Family since then. His claims of being a former terrorist, including an encounter with Yasser Arafat, having helped run a terrorist camp in the Libyan desert under Moammar Qaddafi, visiting Iraq where he rubbed shoulders with Saddam Hussein, and working alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan, have been questioned in the magazine Mother Jones, Books & Culture, The Daily Beast and The Kansas City Star. Saleem additionally claims that the Muslim Brotherhood has put a $25 million bounty on his head, and alleges that he has been the subject of an assassination attempt.

Activities after conversion Saleem founded Koome Ministries together with his wife in 2006, and travels across the United States "challenging Muslims to question their allegiance to Allah," He has appeared on CNN, CBS News, and Fox News, and has spoken on terrorism and radical Islam at Stanford University, the University of California, the Air Force Academy, and other institutions. He has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.