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July 31, 2008 | 2:33 pm

Hamas scion converts to Christianity, respects Israel

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Yousef’s father, a Hamas leader

Haaretz Weekend Magazine has a fantastic profile coming up on Masab Yousef, whose father is the top Hamas leader in the West Bank. The younger Yousef, who once assisted his father politically, has moved to California and converted to Christianity. If that didn’t stop you dead in your tracks, this will: “Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country.”

A preview of the profile was published online today, and it’s clear Yousef is new wine in new wineskins. Thanks to Big Mike for sending this along. I can’t wait to read the rest of the article, but I’ll have to. Hopefully this excerpt will hold us over until then:

“I know that I’m endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he’ll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I’ll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God.”

Nor does he attempt to hide his affection for Israel, or his abhorrence of everything representing the surroundings in which he grew up: the nation, the religion, the organization.

“Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country,” he says.

“You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death.”

Is that the justification for the suicide attacks?

“More than that. An entire society sanctifies death and the suicide terrorists. In Palestinian culture a suicide terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheikhs tell their students about the ‘heroism of the shaheeds.’”

And yet, in spite of the criticism of the place he left, California can’t make the longings disappear.

“I miss Ramallah,” he says. “People with an open mind. ... I mainly miss my mother, my brothers and sisters, but I know that it will be very difficult for me to return to Ramallah soon.”

It would be a mistake to see this as some sort of watershed moment. But it is a prime example of the power of religion, both for good and evil. We are so moved philosophically by He whom we place our faith in. And history offers testimony to how different visions of one God can produce a lot, a lot of bloodshed.

Yusef is Arabic for Joseph, but because of that guy who wore the technicolor dreamcoat it seems an even more fitting new name for this stranger in a stranger land.

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I am looking forward to it too. He seems to be corroborating what several other Arabs with a wider view have said.
Walid Shoebat http://www.walidshoebat.com/
Brigitte Gabriel http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/
Nonie Darwish http://NonieDarwish.com
Faoud Ajami,
Wafa Sultan,
Irshad Manji,
Joseph Farah,
Khaled Abu Toameh

“Avraham Sinai: From Undercover Hizbullah Shiite To Orthodox Jew
By:  Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel
Date Posted: September 27, 2006
http://www.jewishpress.com/print.do/19530/Avraham_Sinai:_From_Undercover_Hizbullah_Shiite_To_Orthodox_Jew.html

The son of a senior Palestinian Authority official also converted to Orthodox Judaism sevseral years ago, I can’t turn the article up right now.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/31/08 at 3:36 pm

California dreaming…I guess there were persons in France who welcomed the German occupation, too.

Comment by cfbernadotte on 8/04/08 at 9:27 am

More like a child raised by wolves and brought back to civilization.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/04/08 at 5:40 pm

I just want to tell my former brothers, Masab Yusoef, and the rests who voluntarily converted to infidels (Christian, Jews/Judaism, Hindus..) from Moslems, your path to the Hell is almost certain and was written down in God’s data banks, Lahfuz-Mahfuz for the permenant record to be used in the Judgement Day for references. You all knew that the issue of Tawhidd,i.e, who is the real God,  in other religions other than Islam, has not been settled and cannot be settled and will be remained unsettled until the world end. If the issue of whorship could be settled, what do you all expect of the rest of religion practices? What about the source of religion practices, Bibles, the genuity or man-created Bibles? Old and New Testment- was it genuine? You could now see the world of Christinity, adultery, illegal children…, many more. Allah has given you all the six senses for you to use to know the real God!!, Never use in totality, only one or two senses has been used!! Islam is the latest religion and it teaching is accumulation of previous samawi religions. Quran’s genuiness is the tested .., Think about it oh..my former brothers before too late. Don’t wait until the Allah/God doesn’t bother us any more!!!!. Only Allah has capability to judge any contradiction among us.

Comment by Mad2wee on 8/04/08 at 10:32 pm

O Muslims! According to Maimonides who suffered most of his life at the hands of Muslims, the purpose for the rise of Muhammad PBUH was to elevate the Arabs from moon worship and paganism, and the reason for the temporary success of Islam is to elevate the pagans, not the Jews. In these days the Umma has been deceived by the old pagan ways disguised as Islam and it is leading them to a great death and destruction. That is why some Muslims have awakened from the spell of the deceivers and are finding their paths elsewhere.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/05/08 at 2:39 pm

CFBernadotte:  you are an anti-Semite!  To: Mad2wee: Muslim Anti-SEMITE!            To Rowan Kelly: Bitch! What Hole Did You Crawl Out Of???!!  To “Skinny1: Anti-SEMITE-Piss On You!!  To Pilgrim: ARSEHOLE.  To CFBernadotte: SWEDISH FUCK.

Comment by Marc Bernstein on 1/13/09 at 8:45 am

Fuck You Rowan Kelly,You Are A Bitch,a Witch,and A Pagan Piece Of Drek.                As for CFBernadotte: GOD DAMN YOU!  Skinny1: ASSHOLE!! I SHIT ON SKINNY1.        Pilgrim: COCKSUCKER! ANTi-SEMITE!! FUCK YOU ROWAN KELLY!!! ROWAN KELLY:      EAT DOG SHIT YOU TORONTO BITCH WITCH!#!!

Comment by Marc Bernstein on 2/22/09 at 2:27 am

it’s wonderful to hear of masab’s conversion to christianity as you can see that their is a great God who can change a heart of hate for Jews to a heart of love. Love is of God hate is of the evil one satan and anyone who hates is not of God.

Comment by ina on 3/04/09 at 3:28 pm

Children go to heaven.  Adults enter clone hosting.  The gods like to sell them as one in the same, but one is good while the other is evil.
And their corruption will cost them, they will be reincarnated, for the hole they’ve dug for themselves is even deeper than when they entered this life.

Comment by I NEVER HAD FREEWILL:::PUSHED ME INTO STEALING, ET on 6/03/09 at 7:55 pm

To Skinny1, Rowan Kelly,Pilgrim,JohnNada: You are all a bunch of Anti-Semitic thugs.  Get Mushroom poisoning and drop dead

Comment by Marc Bernstein on 6/06/09 at 10:07 pm

Rowan Kelly is a Toronto Unholy Stupid Fucking Witch and an Anti-Semite. Fuck Off,Rowan Kelly and fly away on your broom and may your unholy kisskass fall out!! Lousy Craopoopus BITCH! PILGRIM TORONTO STAR LAWRENCEW,SKINNY1=VOMIT TO DEATH MAY A HUNDRED CROWS EAT YOUR LIVERRWW#$A#$^AW#$^

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Comment by grut on 6/26/09 at 4:03 pm

Did you mean to say ‘Lebanese’?

Comment by Ben Plonie on 6/26/09 at 5:41 pm

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