James Yee

James Yee, a third-generation Chinese-American and a 1990
graduate of West Point, served in the U.S. Army for 14
years, including a tour in Saudi Arabia during the
aftermath of the first Gulf War. His spiritual conversion
to Islam in 1991 guided his travels to Damascus, Syria,
where he studied for four years. He twice traveled to Mecca
to make the Haj, the sacred Muslim pilgrimage.