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The Blood of Lambs: A Former Terrorist's Memoir of Death and Redemption

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"The Blood of Lambs" is a gut-wrenching autobiography by former terrorist Kamal Saleem (not his real name). With the assistance of Lynn Vincent, the memoir of this former terrorist's road from horrific existence to redemption is graphically laid out for the reader, offering understanding into how a terrorist is manufactured by an aggressive culture. A review on the cover calls this a riveting read, and it certainly is! Saleem recounts his experiences from the tender age of FOUR YEARS OLD that led to his becoming a feared Islamic warrior. Now, his calling is to courageously defend America and awaken the people of the land he loves to awareness of the terrorist threat with which he used to be affiliated. This is an engrossing and shocking read that is bound to change the reader's perspective on our world.

This is an emotional, engrossing and educational read.

This book is an eye opening account of a young man's journey through hatred and terrorism to love and redemption. This in itself makes the book a very enjoyable read.
As you follow along with his account you will be amazed, hopefully your eyes will be opened and you will see the depth of the hatred that radical Islam holds for us here in the west and just how far they are willing to go in order to kill us.
I would also like to thank the author for writing it; our prayers go out to you and your family.

I wouldn't call this an enjoyable read; not because it wasn't a good book. But rather it was very scary to read. It makes you face the truth of what is going on right under our very noses here in America.

You are led to understand why these terriorists behave the way they do. They are born and raised to hate the "infidels". If these "infidels" are killed you will get to (what they consider to be) heaven.

It is sad to take small children and raise them to believe in hatred of others; to have them believe that it is fine to kill another human being in cold blood. How sad and disturbing is that?

This book is a real eye opener as it explains why these radicals want to kill us with all of their hearts.

This is a story that is important for everyone to read. You can't go about your daily lives and not consider what is going on around you every minute. Though you can't live your life in fear, you must certainly keep your eyes open.

Thank you to the author for coming forward at his own peril and at the peril of his family members, to educate Americans about this very real danger. This story is very compelling.

From the moment I opened the cover, I was captivated by the intensity of Kamal Saleem's life. This truely reads like a movie with non stop action. It was amazing to follow his journey from darkness to light, from evil to good. The truth that Kamal is speaking about radical Islam is eye opening and not something covered by the main stream media. This message needs to be heard!! This is a must read!!
Rachel

The Blood of Lambs is the life story of a warrior trained at his mother's knee, near the shores of Lebanon, to wage the war that is radical Islam. Wounded during a jihad recruiting maneuver in America, he fell helpless into the arms of strangers. He fiercely resisted and mistrusted their kindness, but eventually the love of Jesus Christ disarmed the hate that guns and bombs could not. The description of his ultimate moment of surrender is so real, so vivid, you will carry it in your heart forever.

Kamal Saleem (a pseudonym) is a brave man who has faced up to his past and made public a former life devoted to death. It is a wake up call for America. We have a heart for foreigners -- but this will be our undoing if we do not recognize our enemies and face them head-on.

He asks us to stop pretending. Many Muslims are kind and gentle people, but likely one in ten has declared war on our way of life. We must examine the patterns of jihad and Sharia law, remaining constantly vigilant at home and abroad. His prayer for us is that we will never meet a man like he was. Thank you for sharing your story and your life with us, Kamal Saleem.

This book was recommended by our son, a Marine serving in Afghanistan. He described it as an eye-opening account by someone who had been brought up to hate and terrorize. My husband then read it and was equally impacted by the author's description of his life growing up in a society focused on promulgating hatred. They both recommend it as a book to engender some understanding of how and why terrorism has become such a part of our lives in the twenty-first century.

From chapter one I couldn't put this book down except to eat and sleep. Exquisitely written, forthright, honest, factually telling and dynamic in style and content. "Saleem" takes you inside the mind and life of a young boy born into Islam, living in West Beirut, who at the age of 6 begins his training and indoctrination in terrorism. Be warned, this book is blunt, detailed, and holds nothing back. His journey progresses violently as he becomes a highly trained terrorist for the cause of Islam where the slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood is "Allah is our objective! The Prophet is our leader!The Koran is our law! Jihad is our way! Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope!"-taken from page 82. He tells of his training, where funding for the jihadists operating world wide came from, how they carried out attacks, and what is planned for the future. Saleem reveals the tactics, psychology and methodology of recruiting the poor and needy canvassing areas such as prisons, university campuses, and also neighborhoods where unemployment is high and welfare abounds. The doctrine of 'al toqiah' -lying to infidels for the sake of Islam was and is practiced. Yet for someone who seems forever encased in terrorism and violence, a day like none other happens and the elite hate filled terrorist comes into contact with something he cannot murder...truth. This book will challenge and tilt the minds of certain individuals and their current held erroneous beliefs. I highly recommend this book!!!

Reading The Blood of Lambs is like seeing a train coming straight at your house, your school, your gut, your bank account, and your children. I suppose you could put the book down and filter out politically incorrect thoughts, but that's the problem. Put it down and, according to the book's author Kamal Saleem, you will be an accomplice in the rape of your own nation. Radical Islam is counting on you not wanting to know what they are up to: clearing the world of infidels.

They hate Americans with as much passion as they hate Jews. Saleem writes, "Because if it were not for America, Israel would not exist."

We realize that not all Muslims are extremists. However, according to studies Saleem cites, one in ten have declared war on our Western way of life.

The Blood of Lambs is a startling book, a nuanced version of the celebrated Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci's trilogy. The Rage and the Pride, The Strength of Reason, and Fallaci Interviews Herself were her scandalous wake up calls to Europe. We might not remember that after 9/11, Fallaci spoke out against Radical Islam. She was vilified worldwide by politicians, religious leaders, academics, and the media. They called her a a nut, a xenophobic blasphemer, a bigot and a racist. One extremist called upon Muslims everywhere to eliminate her and "to go die with Fallaci."

Kamal Saleem, author of The Blood of Lambs, is admittedly not well-educated, but he has a engaging personality and the good-luck to have survived multiple death missions. He is a Lebanese-boy-turned-terrorist-turned-American author, who like Fallaci insists on spreading the word about Muslim infiltration of the Western world.

There is another overlap between the two. Before Fallaci spoke out against radical Muslims, she spent time in Beirut covering the country's civil war, which went on for fifteen years beginning in 1975. She witnessed the evil that Saleem grew up knowing: ethnic cleansing, terrorist training camps, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the PLO. No doubt the same evil provided a framework for Fallaci's trilogy as Saleem's coming of age memoir.

Rather than a tirade, Saleem's book is surprisingly tender in its love for family and god, its poetic Arabic metaphors, and its supplication to childhood innocence. Hate turned his childhood innocence into a cause for Allah. His mother, a zealot like so many mothers in his neighborhood, gathered her family around the dinner table. "You can kill a Jew just for being a Jew," she instructed. "And on the day of Judgement your right hand will light up before the throne of Allah."

When he was seven, the Muslim Brotherhood claimed Saleem as their own, training him to be a jihadist. Saleem believed his teachers had power, vision, and passion and they cared about him in a way his own father did not. The same year he was drafted, the Brotherhood disguised him as a bedouin shepherd, strapped a pack of explosives on his back, and convinced him to crawl through a five-mile tunnel to deliver the weaponry to PLO operatives in Israel. He was seven years old.

Listen, Saleem writes: American kids go to summer camp to sing around the campfire and to play tennis. At the same age, hundreds of thousands of Muslim boys are learning to die for the glory of Islam, to fire missiles, and to take apart and reassemble AK-47s.

During his training, Saleem witnessed a ten-year old friend's head explode in a gritty mess of blood and bone right in front of him. The dead boys mother whistled with joy to learn her son had died for Allah.

The book will hook you. As you read on, you find out about Saleem's meeting Yasar Arafat, his second killing mission into Israel when he was eleven, his involvement in Lebanon's civil war, his mid-teens assignment in Afghanistan. All along the way he murdered, killed, and exploded buildings and bodies for Allah.

At first, the writing in the book struck me as simplistic: simple sentences, awkward similes. (The book is co-written) But the directness of his message rode on the simple sentences. The metaphors were clearly pure. His sincerity remained seamless. The echos within the story struck my heart; the writer stood on the side of love. Despite the atrocities he committed, I accepted him: not an easy task for a writer who presents such a duplicitous story.

The book does point out contradictions within the Muslim faith: the irritating pecking order between Lebanese, Syrian, Saudi and Palestinian Muslims. The conflict between Sunni and Shia. Could inconsistent elements stop the radical movement? Saleem doesn't think so. The Muslim faith is a religion of disciple. According to Saleem, they have a long-term plan to enforce Shiria law in Europe and America and get rid of the Jews in Israel. It may take ten years or two hundred.

By age 17 Saleem was fluent in both English and French, in addition to Arabic. The Muslim Brotherhood, knowing they had a jewel, sent Saleem to etiquette school so he could hobnob with Saudi sheiks. In his twenties he funneled huge sums of money to Allah's cause. You see, according to Muslim faith, the rich are obliged to participate in jihad. They don't send themselves or their sons to do battle. They send money. In the States, Saleem writes, the oil money was washed in real estate deals and in Muslim-owned corner grocery stores and gas stations.

In the 70's, when Saleem first entered America, his assignment was to plant the seeds of jihad, and pay particular attention to the young people. He, and others, started on university campuses, infiltrating groups like Muslim American Youth Association; they organized cells in major cities; they carefully recruited converts in poverty stricken neighborhoods and jails. They bought up those corner grocery stores and gas stations and selected and developed homegrown terrorists.

This all may ring as old news to you, news you don't want to read again. But like me, you may have not realized the extend of Sharia law already operating in our beloved country. For example, Saleem notes that the airport authorities in Minneapolis have suggested it would be all right for Muslim cab drivers to refuse passengers who are Orthodox Jews and people carrying alcohol. They just have to mark their cabs "Sharia." In Oak Park, California, Saleem writes, there have been successful attempts to establish Muslim prayer rituals in public schools.

The Blood of Lambs is a must read. Our children ought to become familiar with the vocabulary...but then again, as a nation, are we so polite and all embracing of other religions and cultures that we do not want to taint our children's political correctness? Saleem repeatedly said, Radical Islamist are counting on cultural taboos to further their cause. Just as Oriana Fallaci pointed out less than a decade ago, Westerners are blinded by generous multiculturalism.

Saleem is no longer a Muslim. In Islam a Muslim who converts to Christianity is worse than a Jew. This is the only part of the book that made me uncomfortable: Saleem's conversion to Christianity. I knew it was coming and didn't want Jesus to take over the narrative. He didn't. Saleem converts and does not harp on about his conversion. More so, Saleem reiterates his mission to speak out and spread knowledge about Radical Islam.

What does he want Americans to know?
Islamic doctrine allows Muslim to lie to enemies (Christians, Jews, Americans) for the sake of Islam.
The enemies' property (women, children, money, house, country) belongs to Allah.
True Muslims sleep with as many of the enemy's women in order to seed the world with Muslim blood.
Devote Muslims are expected to complete the conquest Mohammed began, which is to establish a global calipha, or world dominance.
Wherever a Muslim lives, he or she must call for Sharia law.
No nation should be richer than a Muslim nation.

Early on in the memoir, Saleem reminds readers that in the days after 9-11 "moderate" Muslims did not cry out against atrocities done in their name. Rather, all over the world--including New York, Chicago, Houston, and in Michigan--so called moderate Muslims celebrated about what happened to America: the sword of Islam had cut down the great Satan. "Radical Muslims actually danced in American streets," he writes. "And America allowed them to dance."

The Blood of Lambs cites strong references to childhood and imprints rather profound images regarding innocence and the impact of its loss. The smell and sight of slaughtered sheep, a child praying on the roof of his apartment building, neighborhood bullies beatings up small children, and seven to eleven year-olds on death marches are images that stick.

Salem writes, that the people who are like he used to be never get tired, never run out of time or money; they are headed straight at Americans. Not even for a second, do they consider that it is not right to corrupt innocence, to take blood from lambs, to slaughter families, or to turn babies--ours or theirs--into weapons.

It's hard to accept that Radical Muslims are so radical, or to not wonder if Saleem sensationaized his story in order to sell books. Despite the nagging questions, I am recommending this book.

Within this account, we see the ultimate possibility for the Holy Spirit to touch and transform a heart of cold, stone-like murderous obsession into one devoted to Christ, His love for all people, and a His passion for His bride, the Church. Kamal Saleem was tragically drawn into to a world of hatred, murder, and manipulation largely because he was misinformed and ignored by a struggling family. In the midst of radical Islam, he found a sense of belonging and purpose -- namely, destroying all those not in the grip of Islam. However, when he encountered Christianity in reality as opposed to the warped stereotypes he had been taught, the love of Christ overshadowed the hatred that previously drove his life. God spoke to him. Now God speaks through him. His life story is an engaging account of just how much can be accomplished when God's people live out the faith that they embrace. A terrorist consumed with hatred became a friend of God because Christian people exposed him to the love of God without any accompanying compulsion. Reason would not have convinced the terrorist of his errors, but the love of Christ lived out before His eyes did just that. This is a powerful, sometimes disturbing account of the journey from loathing to love in the context of Christian transformation.

I first saw "The Blood of Lambs" in the bookstore but didn't buy it until about a month later. Once I started reading, the author's life gripped me with its raw description of the slavery and terror associated with islam. That he was saved during several suicide missions showed the hand of the True God in his life. Mr. Saleem's analysis of our politically correct ignorance toward the terrorists among us in America was eye-opening and accurate. I enjoyed his salvation experience and hope and pray for God's protection over him and his family. I highly recommend this book.