Tell me, who is peaceful, and who is violent? And remember, in England, the police do not normally wear firearms on their sides.
It is being reported that the entire bill for just last weekends riots over the Israeli military action in Gaza in London (one weekend ALONE) is MORE THAN £1 MILLION ($1.45 million USD). Cars were overturned. A Starbucks coffee shop next to the Israeli Embassy was seriously smashed. More here.
So, who is the cause of all this violence? Lets take a look, shall we? And both these videos are from London, on the same day. And all of this in the name of religion. Oh wait.. God is suppose to be peaceful, Allah says kill all those who aren’t Muslim. Good thing I don’t believe in either because in the “religion” that I follow? We don’t waste our time trying to tell the world that we are right and they are wrong. We just laugh at them and go merrily on our way, amused. And no I'm not Wiccan or Pagan either so don’t even go there. But I will say this, if someone comes after me all in the name of God or Allah, then they are personally gonna meet the person they follow. And I ain’t kiddin. I don’t discuss, argue or fight over religion... EVER.
Pro-Palestine
From January 11, 2009 in London.
Pro-Israel
From January 11, 2009 in London. The same day as above.
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Take a guess at who is who....
From January 4th, 2009 in London.
From January 11, 2009 in London
More from January 3rd in London. This time the Bobbies are in riot gear.
So tell me, how long is it before the firebombs start? And how long before this level of violence reaches the United States, as it has everywhere else in the world.
PLEASE NOTE BEFORE WATCHING. This video is VERY VERY GRAPHIC and shows a child slitting and cutting the head off of a man. I could not watch it past 0.24 seconds (and those of you who really know me, knows this says something about the video).
ADDITIONALLY, by pressing “play” on the video, you are certifying that you are of legal age in the city, county, state, and country to view such videos.
Get ready… it’s pretty.. well… graphic. One of the most graphic I have ever seen. And one of the most shocking, knowing that a young child is killing this man with a knife. This is not fake. This is not Hollywood. This is REAL. This is murder. This is radical Islam. And all in the name of God.
NEW YORK (CNN) — At least nine protesters were arrested in a pro-Palestinian rally in New York that injured seven police officers, authorities said.
The extent of injuries varied from minor to serious, New York police said. Two officers sustained head injuries.
Detective Cheryl Crispin said the protesters taken into custody faced charges ranging from disorderly conduct to reckless endangerment.
In a statement, the NYPD said the officers were injured when trying to break up a fight between two demonstrators.
The demonstrators had gathered on Manhattan’s West Side on Sunday afternoon to protest the Israeli incursion in Gaza.
Over on Atlas Shrugs, there is a description of a woman who was carrying an Israeli and American flag while walking home. She was attacked after a rally, near her home, by a pack of Pro-Palestinian people. As a side note, the woman and man in this account, are not Jewish.
“After walking home from the 42 Street & 7th Avenue Pro-Israel rally, I watched the Muslim rally participants march up 8th Avenue closely controlled by many NYC police to keep them moving along. Even so, it appeared that many of the young men and women were eyeing the bystanders on the sidewalk in threatening way almost challenging someone to disagree with their “death to Israel” and “God Bless Hitler” chants.
I went back to my apartment where I met my boyfriend who had also just returned from the second Pro Israel rally on 39th Street & 7th Avenue. We walked outside the building and across a major midtown avenue on the West Side to buy some groceries. He was still carrying the Israeli flag and we were both wearing baseball caps with the American flag and USA on the brims. A large number of Muslims were milling around since it seems that their rally had reached its end point and was dispersing. Six Muslim men were being photographed with posters with the words, "Praise Hamas and Hezbollah, Reopen the Ovens" and were taking photos of themselves and their posters. Seeing us with the Israel flag, they began screaming, "You're assholes, Kill the Jews, We are going to kill you, This is OUR country," etc.
We went into the corner deli and they began banging on the window and stood outside in a very threatening mob waiting for us to leave. I heard one man say, "She is a female" - very observant. I don't know what this was suppose to signal to his fellow terrorists. When we left the deli a mob of the original Muslims and others who joined them came up to us screaming death to the Jews, and one man around 19/20 years old ran up and with force and hatred threw an egg into my friend's eye. This may not seem like much but I am sure the intent was for the egg shells to be lodged in his eye. The egg was not thrown from afar against his coat but was thrown like a rock would be - to inflict as much harm as possible. The assailant then grabbed our Israeli flag, threw it to the ground, and was spitting on it and wiping his feet on it. When we asked a traffic cop to make an arrest, the assailant ran away down the block but the traffic agent did not answer us nor did he call 911. He passively stood by doing NOTHING.
Two people standing on the street took photos of our attack and said they would email us with the photos to identity the criminals. We then walked back across the street to our building and were followed by a pack of Muslims - about 8 or 10 - who continued to threaten, mock and scream at us. They seemed surprised at our ferocious counter verbal attack. However, they came right within 6 inches of us saying they would kill us. One of the men was about to attack me when my boyfriend saw the assault about to begin and said, "If you touch her, I swear I'll kill you." At that point the original traffic control cop came over and a second traffic agent joined him and forced the crowd to disperse. They asked us to go into the apartment building lobby which we did.
We immediately called the police and asked to make a police report. Two NYC policemen came to the apartment about an hour later hour and took the information. They were very courteous and said they will file the report and a detective is to contact us tomorrow. They apologized for taking so long to come by but explained that there were many incidents of a similar nature that were taking place as the Muslim rally broke up. They also shared that 2 NYC police officers had been attacked at the rally and that the Muslims are 'out of control.'
Without the photos, it will be near impossible to find the Muslims involved. Even with the photos, I am not sure if the police can find the assailant or make an arrest. I am told by an attorney friend, that just the act of following and threatening is a crime in and of itself. Whatever it takes, we'll take it as far as possible to prosecute.
Any ideas as how to pursue this would be welcome. This attack could happen to anyone. This attack happened in midtown Manhattan, a major American city on a Sunday afternoon. Our country is under attack from within. We need to do much more than attend rallies."
Here’s the latest live video stream from Gaza (no guarantees on whether it will work with your browser). Requires Windows Media Player; Mac users should install Flip4Mac.
It’s real and its live. Watch the trees in the lower center, and you can see them moving. And make sure you crank up the volume if you see action. I could actually hear the call to prayer. And I could hear ARV’s during bombing.
Gaza Live Webcam
Gaza Date and time
There is a second link however, it seems to go up and down.
If you would like to make a desktop page of the above feed, check out instructions on this page. It’s very simple.
First, remember that Obama CONSTANTLY says that there is only one President, and only one Administration at a time. He’s used that line many times recently to duck hard questions.
Obama has asked Bush to notify Congress “on his behalf” that he wants to access the second half of the $700 billion fund, according to White House press secretary Dana Perino.
The idea is to make the money available to the new administration shortly after Obama takes office Jan. 20th.
So if there is only one President at a time, or one Administration at a time, then why did Obama ask Bush to notify Congress that he wants the money? I mean seriously… I’m REALLY starting to HATE Obama’s morals and ethics, or rather, lack of.
Imagine here in the United States, children’s shows teaching kids that bombs and killing Jews is more precious than that child’s own life.
Imagine a music video teaching the same. After a five-year-old finds out that her mother wore a bomb belt to a suicide terror attack, she sings: “Now I know what was more precious than us.” She then swears to follow in her mother’s footsteps, as a suicide bomber.
“In addition to the video featuring the daughter of a suicide bomber, this collection includes a music video depicting a boy’s transition from childhood to adulthood, climaxing in his heroic Martyrdom death; a puppet show promising world Islamic supremacy, death of infidels and the conversion of the White House into a mosque; and a talk show segment featuring kindergarden aged kids marching in military formation, brandishing weapons and calling for Jihad and Martyrdom.”
And all of this, all this sacrifice of life and killing, in the name of God.
Obama is now saying that fixing the economy over the long term will require “sacrifice” from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.
“Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don’t work, and making things that we have more efficient. But I’m not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped.”
Gee, what a surprise. Obama, the Savior, who promised the moon, the sun and the stars to get elected, is now doing what I expected, and what all politicians do, and going back on his campaign promises.
"At the end of the day, are you really talking about over the course of your presidency some kind of grand bargain? That you have tax reform, healthcare reform, entitlement reform including Social Security and Medicare, where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good?"
"Yes," Obama said.
"And when will that get done?"
"Well, right now, I’m focused on a pretty heavy lift, which is making sure we get that reinvestment and recovery package in place. But what you described is exactly what we’re going to have to do. What we have to do is to take a look at our structural deficit, how are we paying for government? What are we getting for it? And how do we make the system more efficient?"
"And eventually sacrifice from everyone?"
"Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said.
Gee, is this the way to get every American to “serve” in Obama’s Socialist Administration?
At least 30 people were reportedly killed and 53 wounded in an explosion in a UN-run school in the town of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians. Hundreds had sought refuge at the school. However, three officials at Shifa hospita, where some of the wounded were taken, said at least 42 people were killed and that the number of dead would likely rise. Ma’an news was reporting both numbers.
The Israel Defense Forces issued a statement saying that the school grounds were currently being used by terrorists to fire mortar shells at the troops. Two neighborhood residents confirmed that militants were firing mortars near the school, then fled into a crowd of people in the streets. Additionally, an IDF spokesperson reported that a missile launcher and a number of anti-tank missiles were found at a Palestinian school yard along with two dead Hamas soldiers. According to the IDF, among these two dead were members of a Hamas launching cell, including operatives brothers Immad Abu Askar and Hassan Abu Askar. Residents said that the Abu Askar brothers were known low-level Hamas militants.
IDF reported that Hamas was firing mortar bombs at Israeli soldiers from the UN school.
The infantrymen returned mortar fire into the school grounds, the army said. Defense officials told the AP that booby-trapped bombs in the school triggered the secondary explosions which killed the Palestinians on the site. The following video was released via the IDF showing Israel firing upon Hamas targets with secondary explosions. It is unclear whether the school is included in these videos.
“Hamas has in the past fired at Israel and at troops from inside schools, cynically using civilians, as is proven by UAV footage,” the army said.
The UN said hundreds of people from a Gaza City refugee camp had gone to seek shelter in the school…
“I am appealing to political leaders here and in the region and the world to get their act together and stop this,” said John Ging, the top UN official in Gaza. “They are responsible for these deaths.”
RANT ON
Of course Hamas will say that Israel hit the school and that they had nothing to do with it. It’s not like Hamas has used schools before as weapons dumps right? Especially since that exact school had been used before to fire rockets and mortars for Hamas. And there is a 2007 video of Hamas firing mortars into Israel from this same school yard.
Now you may think Israel was wrong for firing on a school however, do you think its right that Hamas is firing mortars from the same location with innocent civilians inside? But the thought to ponder in all of this is WHY WAS THERE A SECONDARY EXPLOSION today? And WHY did the UN allow Hamas to CONTINUE to use this location as a firing point since it was revealed in 2007? Just thoughts to ponder!
And last week a science teacher and headmaster at a UN school was killed. By day he was a teacher, at night, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad. Hamas hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad’s “engineering unit” – its bomb makers. Although the UN denies any knowledge of this, and his family denies the claim while Islamic Jihad posters filled his home, the man’s body was wrapped in an Islamic Jihad flag at his funeral.
At the UN school, a handwritten notice was posted on the gate at the entrance to the school declaring the man “the chief leader of the engineering unit”, would now find “paradise”.
It is also known that Hamas hides weapons at schools.
Meanwhile, back to today, hundreds of innocent civilians had headed to a UN school for safety. And Hamas decides to use the grounds around the school to fire at Israeli troops, knowing full well that Israel would fire back at them. Then when Israel did fire back, it set the booby-traps off INSIDE the school. Nice guys, them Hamas eh?
So how can you fight a terrorist organization, that uses schools as weapons dumps. That fires weapons from schools and school yards, while innocents are inside? And what kind of government puts its own innocent civilians at risk, while that same government should be protecting its own innocent civilians?
But yet, neither Israel nor Hamas (Palestine) has a monopoly on what is right or what is wrong either.
How would you feel if your child went to summer camp, and from the age of 5 or so, was taught how to kill Jews while at camp, required to wear wearing paramilitary clothing?
Q: What are you holding in your hand?
A: A rifle.
Q: What are you going to do with it?
A: Shoot the Jews.
How would you feel if you had a child that was 5-7 years old and said the following:
Q: Do you want to be a martyr?
A: Yes.
Q: Why do you want to?
A: To kill the Jews.
Q: Why are they shooting at us?
A: Because they’re animals.
And then use said children, as human shields?
Or what about dressing your children up for a stage “show” as a suicide bomber? Or how about bloodying their hands symbolizing the Ramallah Massacre?
“Its appropriate to fly the Hamas flag … but I don’t think it’s appropriate to fly the Israeli flag anywhere in America … that flag represents a terrorist state.”
When asked if he thought Hamas was a terrorist organization, his answer is “Absolutely not, that’s right wing spin. That’s pro-Israel spin.”
When asked if Hamas targets civilians, his answer is “No.”
How typical for San Francisco and for California. Forget the red, white and blue, green is the new color of San Francisco,and I don’t mean “green” as in environment friendly.
Im sure you have heard that Gaza is being called a ghetto, comparing it to the Jews being placed in the Warsaw Ghetto in Germany. I’m sure you have heard they have nothing. No food. No medical supplies. No fresh water. I’m here to say BULL CHIPS!
The video below was taken on December 3, 2008 and uploaded on January 3, 2009. Does this look like a suffering city to you? Does this life look miserable? Does this really look like a third-world country? Do these people look like they are starving from lack of food? Does this really look like a prison? Does it look like they have no shelter? Does this really look like a concentration camp? Does this really look like a city where people make only $2 a day?
Nice Sign. Yesterday, about 200 Palestinian supporters, marched in front of the state capital at noon, urging the United States to take a neutral stand in the Mideast.
The protest was organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, OK chapter.
People walked in front of the Capital building in a circle during the noon hour chanting, “Stop the killing, free, free Gaza!” and “Free, free Palestine; occupation is a crime!”
Michael Abdulaziz-Gipson, a board member said the group is calling upon public officials and congressmen to stop the Israeli attacks and potential occupation of the Gaza Strip. “We are asking the American public not to become desensitized,” he said, noting that the general population is being forced to stay in their home.
According to Razi Hashmi, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ executive director, America should take immediate steps to end Israel’s “illegal and immoral” offensive against the Gaza' Strip’s Hamas rulers. “We as Oklahomans and as Americans should be concerned about this conflict because our taxes are going towards Israel,” Hashmi said. “We should not allow our government to give Israel a blank check to allow the destruction of hopes for peace in the Middle East.” However in a rather confusing statement, Hashmi also said as an American citizen, he agrees with the U.S. description of Hamas.
During the demonstration, one protestor held a sign that showed a swastika inside the Star of David. According to Hashmi, the man carrying the sign, identified only as a college student from OK City, was asked to leave and the sign removed a “couple of minutes” after the demonstration started. Also according to Hashimi, the man has been banned from future protests organized by the organization. According to Hashmi, the organization distributed rules before the demonstration that no offensive signs or banners would be tolerated. “The Star of David is a sacred symbol of faith and Muslims are stressed by Islam to respect all symbols of faith and I apologize,” Hashmi said. “This [sign] does not reflect our personal views.”
However, unless the video below was taken within the first few minutes of the protest, the sign is seen during the demonstration. But then what do you expect from a group who defends Hamas?
Michael Barlow, past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater OK City watched the protest commenting, “War is unfortunate, but the question is: What is Israel to do, with scores of missiles being shot into Israel population centers daily?” “How long do you allow missiles to be shot into your country from another country?” Barlow added that it is difficult for Israel to negotiate with Hamas leaders when they do not recognize Israel’s right to exist.
United Methodist minister Rev. Andres Tevington of the Church of the Servant in OK City said the Israelis and Palestinians should quit “illegitimately calling on the name of God” in this fighting. “We call upon the U.S. to help both sides see there is a different way to do this,” he said.
Rev. Kristen Brown, a United Methodist minister attended the protest saying, “I saw that this isn’t really a religious issue, this is an issue about people who are living under military occupation for 40 years and they’re in a very desperate situation,” she said.
RANT ON
What irritates me more and more, is the use of children in these protests. How can a child, who is aged 2-7 years old, have a mental ability to understand the protest, and understand the purpose of these signs, or the babies swaddled in bloodied cloth they carry? How can these children make a voluntary choice at their age to make a voluntary consent to participate in these protests. Any child who is a minor, should not be allowed to participate in these protests, if they are a credible organization, who is looking out for a child’s best interest. These children do not have the mentality to make an informed consent to voluntarily participate in these protests. This is nothing more than encouraging racism.
And how can you call for the end of an “illegal and immoral” offensive against a terrorist organization and still say you support the U.S. designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization?
HamasPalestinian Legal Advisor, Diana Buttu, says “Absolutely not” and “you are blaming the victim” to Hamas being the aggressors here. She also claims that is not a question of Israel responding, it is a question of Israel initiating attacks on Gaza, and that their actions are a violation of International Law. [Listen for Jarrett laugh after she says that statement.]
Says “Absolutely not” to Hamas using humans as shields and firing rockets from high civilian population areas and if Hamas is responsible for the high death rate of civilians. Her defense is that Jarrett has never been to the Gaza Strip and he does not know what it looks like that Israel is targeting Government buildings and schools. Note, she never directly answers the question of Hamas firing rockets from civilian areas, in numbers around 6,000 over 18 months, or comments about using Mosques as armories.
She also says that the Hamas rockets do not have explosive heads. Well the last time I checked a .45 bullet doesn’t have one either, but that doesn’t stop it from killing someone either.
She also says it is wrong to blame victims because Israel is using US backed weapons to attack Gaza. That these are war crimes are Israel should be prosecuted. So obviously this woman justifies any rocket that Hamas fired into civilian areas prior to Israel attacking Gaza wasn’t a war crime?
Jarret informs Buttu that he has been to the Gaza Strip, that he has met with terrorists, and that this was the end of the interview. Buttu continues to tell Jarret that he’s wrong and the feed ends.
PWNED!
Here Buttu talks with CNN. Here again she talks about how over 1600 people were killed from Israeli attacks prior to Israel attacking Gaza, but never talks about the over 6000 rockets that were sent from Gaza to Israel in the same time. And she says the only way for peace, is for Israel to end the occupation [of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem].
She really does defend Hamas in this video saying they are a political organization with domestic roots that is portrayed differently outside the world. And that this is a “homegrown organization”.
Seriously, it’s an honest question, not filled with sarcasm. Really, I don’t understand.
In this first picture from the AP, the caption reads: “Palestinians carry the bodies of senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan and his family during their funeral in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip. Rayyan, his four wives and eight children were killed in an Israeli air strike on their home on Thursday.”
And if all the citizens of Gaza are innocent and victims of Hamas, then who are all of these people attending the funeral?
I mean really, if all these people are innocent civilians and not Hamas supporters, then why are they at Rayyan’s funeral?
I’m just really confused at what I hear pro-Palestinian protestors saying, and what I see in pictures.
So, if you support a terrorist organization, but are not directly involved with the terrorist organization, then you are innocent?
So can anyone explain this contradiction to me without blowing a microchip in the process?
Here’s another example from about a month ago at a funeral for four Hamas gunmen.
Especially since this picture is from the Hamas Anniversary celebration from Dec. 14, 2008? If the citizens of Gaza are innocent, they why are they celebrating Hamas’ anniversary?
Or did all these people really just have nothing better do do that day than to go to a celebration support a terrorist organization?
This is an award-winning documentary on Radical Islam that has been out for a couple of years however, I think it’s time to bring it back to the surface. My first experience with this movie was back in September when it showed up inside my local Sunday newspaper where some 28 million copies of this DVD have been distributed for free.
Using images from Arab TV, rarely seen in the West, Obsession reveals an “insiders view” of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination.
Obsession examines how seemingly isolated acts of terrorism are seen by radical Islamists as an integral part of a global war or jihad for world domination.
Walid Shoebat is shown in this video. He was born in Bethlehem and became a member of the PLO. He was jailed and after his release came to the US and continued his anti-Israel activities. In 1993, he studied the Jewish Bible in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie.
Nonie Darwish is also in this video. Her father headed the Egyptian military in Gaza and the Sinai when Gaza was under Egyptian control in the fifties. In 1978 she emigrated to America. After 9/11 she realized that her culture of origin is in a head of collision with the rest of the world, and started speaking out about terrorism. She believes that her support to Israel does not take away from her love of her culture of origin.
Mary Matalin, former Assistant to the President, Counselor to Vice President & Political Strategist and Commentator said about the movie:
For those people who don’t understand the threat posed by Radical Islam, and especially for those people who do understand the threat - ‘Obsession’ demonstrates in the clearest possible terms that we must stand up and defend our way of life.
Major General Bentley Rayburn (Ret) of the USAF had to say about ‘Obsession’:
As a retired Air Force Major General who has lived and traveled through the Middle East and has commanded major combat organizations in key Muslim countries, I believe ‘Obsession’ is a movie that every American ought to see. It is the most accurate description I’ve seen of the great struggle that the western world will face for many years to come."
Now the movie does have its share of refuters, calling the movie nothing but a lie filled with propaganda. One such website is “Obsession With Hate” saying that
“there are those who have misused Islam to promote an anti-Western militant ideology” but “Obsession is not an honest critique of violent radicalism. Instead, it is a propaganda piece that seeks to cast a wide net of suspicion of against Muslims by blurring the line between violent radicalism and mainstream Islam.”
“As such, it does not call on credible experts and reputable scholars but resorts to shady characters like “former-terrorist” Walid Shoebat, who has made such outlandish statements as: ‘Islam is no the religion of God Islam is the devil.’”
Those who oppose this movie, mostly Muslims, are quick to note that the movie was produced and made by Jews saying again, it is nothing more than propaganda against Muslims produced by Jews.
Either way, Obsession does show some interesting things. Only you yourself can decide what to get out of this movie, and what the movie is trying to say.
Below is the movie, in it’s entirety. The movie can also be downloaded via Google Video for your iPod.
This is what can happen when you ask “What if?” “What if everything I’ve been told, been taught is a lie?” And then sent out to decide what is right and what is wrong for oneself.
Mus’ab Hassan Youself is the son of Sheikh Hassan Youself, the man who is one of the Hamas founding members. Mus’ab has decided to abandon his Muslim faith, denounce his father’s organization, move to America and become a Christian. Youself has sought asylum in the US and now attends an evangelical Christian church in San Diego, CA.
This is a person, who was “inside” Hamas. Who’s father is one of the founding members of Hamas. This is a person, who has turned away from Islam, turned away from Hamas, turned away from his family and made an informed decision about what Hamas really is. This is the person that everyone should be listening to. “I call upon the Palestinian people to open its eyes and see what Hamas was doing…”
He has said the true nature of Hamas and radical Islam was discovered during a stint in an Israeli prison. He renounced his Muslim faith, left his family behind in Ramallah and converted to Christianity.
“Islam is not the word of God,” said Youself. “If you want to be offended it’s your problem. But you know something? Go study. Think for a second that I might be right. So wake up, look at your path, see where you’re going. Are you really going to heave with 72 virgins after you kill yourself and kill another 20 people?”
About his father (who is seen left in the center, wearing the blue shirt) and Hamas, Mu’sab said Hamas betrays the Palestinian cause and tortures its own members. He also states;
“The Hamas leadership, including my father, they’re responsible; they’re responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization. I know they describe it as reaction to Israeli aggression, but still, they are part of it and they had to make decisions in those operations against Israel [for] which there was the killing of many civilians.”
Mu’sab has said there will never be lasting peace between Israel and Hamas.
“There is no chance. Is there any chance for fire to co-exist with the water?” “Its not about Israel, it’s not about Hamas: it’s about both ideologies.”
AUGUST, 2008
Mus’ab announced that he left Islam. From an article on Haaretz titled: “I’ve left a society that sanctifies terror.” (Right are the three founding members of Hamas with Mus’ab’s father’s picture on the far left)
A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.
It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. “I’m now called Joseph,” he says at the outset.
Masab knows that he has little hope of returning to visit the Holy Land in this lifetime. “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.”
Below are excerpts from an interview which aired on Al-Hayat TV (Cyprus) on August 19, 2008. In this video, he talks about his childhood, his father, his involvement with the hatred of Jews, and his path to leaving Islam.
JANUARY, 2009
Fox News did a documentary with Mu’sab Hassan Youself titled “Escape From Hamas” that was shown on Fox News. Below, in six parts, is the entire documentary.
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
PART FIVE
PART SIX
RANT ON
Believe it or not, no rant, but congregations to this brave young man who made a free will decision for himself. That in itself says a lot since Hamas does not encourage independent free-will thought, but encourages sightless unthinking followers instead. And obviously the young man was so disturbed at what he realized about Hamas and Islam that he turned his back on his own father and family. By rejecting Islam he has turned into a apostate which a fatwa can be called on him. The four major Sunni Madh’hab (schools of Islamic jurisprudence) and the Twelver Shi’a Jafar madhab agree that a sane adult male apostate must be executed since the Qur’an states that Allah (God) despises aspostasy. [Qur’an 3:72, 3:90, 16:106, 4:137 and 5:54]
Now if only more people would listen to what he has to say and think for themselves instead of being mindless and sightless sheep being lead to a slaughter all in the name of God.
