[2][3] Born into a Buddhist Malaysian Chinese family, Hussain Yee converted to Islam at the age of 18.

[5] Among other positions, he spent a year in 1980 as an Advisor for the Cambodian Islamic Refugee Organisation in Paris, France.

He has also served as a Counsellor at PERKIM Kuala Lumpur and as the Director of Da’wah for the Islamic Center in Hong Kong from 1984 to 1985.

[6] In 2015, he gave a keynote address at the Australian Islamic Peace Conference (AIPC), which was attended by religious leaders from Jewish and Christian faiths.

[7] Yee has said that Muslims terrorists were not responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States, just based on "suspicion".