[1] Born in Lebanon, Saleem claims to have been taught to wage jihad from a young age for the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Muslim Brotherhood.
He was also taught another more subtle form of warfare, called "Cultural Jihad", which he was eventually chosen to wage in the United States.
[2] He lived in a small Midwestern town in the early 1980s where he tried to recruit men in poorer neighborhoods to Islam.
[1] 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, was questioned by a skeptical Kansas City Star columnist.
[3] He has claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood has put a $25 million bounty on his head, and alleged that he has been the subject of an assassination attempt.