Zoon van een leider van Hamas bekeerd zich tot het Christendom(artikel in het Engels)

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 (Bericht in de Engels)

Hamas’ Christian convert: I’ve left a society that sanctifies terror

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 a 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.
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“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