IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE A “FORMER TERRORIST”?

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Book Review: THE BLOOD  OF LAMBS A Former Terrorist’s Memoir of Death and Redemption  by Kamal Saleem

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 (more…)