Victoria Jackson devotes her May 12 WorldNetDaily column to regurgitating the story of self-proclaimed ex-terrorist-turned-Christian activist Kamal Saleem, a confederate of self-proclaimed ex-terrorist-turn-Christian activist Walid Shoebat. Like Shoebat, Saleem’s story has had questions raised that Jackson shows no interest in checking out.
Jackson bizarrely writes of Saleem, “He is underground because Muslims that leave Islam are killed.” Unless you count visits to colleges and even the Air Force Academy to rail against Islam on behalf of right-wing Christian organizations as operating “underground,” not so much.
As the New York Times points out, Saleem’s account of how, as a child, he infiltrated Israel to plant bombs via a network of tunnels underneath the Golan Heights has never been verified by experts. Saleem has also claimed to be descended from the grand wazir of Islam, which one expert described as a “nonsensical term.”
Even more nonsensical is Jackson’s suggestion that she transcribed her column’s lengthy excerpt of Saleem’s testimony by hand on a notepad while “sitting in my hot Florida driveway, in my car with the engine idling, the air conditioner on and my cell phone plugged into the cigarette lighter hole.” That’s highly unlikely, even if Jackson was known more these days for taking notes than doing handstands.