They Need to Be Liberated From Their God

[citizen snips]

'I absolutely know that in anybody's eyes I was a traitor," says Mosab Hassan Yousef. "To my family, to my nation, to my God. I crossed all the red lines in my society. I didn't leave one that I didn't cross."

Now 32, Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Throughout the last decade, from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, he worked alongside his father in the West Bank. During that time the younger Mr. Yousef also secretly embraced Christianity. And as he reveals in his book "Son of Hamas," out this week, he became one of the top spies for Israel's internal security arm, the Shin Bet.

The news of this double conversion has sent ripples through the Middle East. One of Mr. Yousef's handlers at the Shin Bet confirmed his account to the Israeli daily Haaretz. Hamas—already reeling from the assassination of a senior military chief in Dubai in January—calls his claims Zionist propaganda. From the Israeli prison he has occupied since 2005, Sheikh Yousef on Monday issued a statement that he and his family "have completely disowned the man who was our oldest son and who is called Mosab."

For the past two years, Mosab Yousef has lived near San Diego, where he's kept a low profile out of concern for his security. The U.S. is currently weighing his application for political asylum, and until his confession to espionage and the publicity blitz that accompanied it this week, only knew him as the son of a terrorist who sometimes attends evangelical churches in California. The book is intended to launch a new life in America.

Mr. Yousef, whose large, engaging eyes sit prominently on an oval face, says he was confused for many years himself, and realizes many people will be as well. His family has been shamed and old friends refuse to believe him. The book, a Le Carréesque thriller wrapped in a spiritual coming-of-age story, is an attempt to answer what he says "is impossible to imagine"—"how I ended up working for my enemies who hurt me, who hurt my dad, who hurt my people."

"There is a logical explanation," he continues in fairly fluent English. "Simply my enemies of yesterday became my friends. And the friends of yesterday became really my enemies."

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html

[aquart]

1. It happens.

We got a few who went the other way, too. Neither side is innocent. If you were brought up to believe you were on the side of light and began to see the dark...Nobody wants to be on the dark side.

[mzteris]

2. same "god" same hatred same bs. n/t

[Ready4Change]

3. Different target, same attitude.

[IndianaGreen]

5. The Holocaust is empirical proof there is no God!

Emma Goldman nailed on the head back in 1910:

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails. Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began. Anarchism rouses man to rebellion against this black monster. Break your mental fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think and judge for yourself will you get rid of the dominion of darkness, the greatest obstacle to all progress.

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/anarchism.html

[proteus_lives]

6. Then why isn't everyone an atheist?

"The Holocaust is empirical proof there is no God!"

Then wouldn't the black plague, the Ukrainian genocide, WWI, crusades, China's genocides/plagues, Spanish Flu, Aztec sacrifices, etc, etc, have already proven that fact?

A religious person can as easily point to good things like you point to bad things.

[mzteris]

7. Interesting set of videos on the "Diety"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzf8q9QHfhI

just started watching them, but the first couple are - interesting. They'd be very funny if they weren't such a sad commentary on the state of "god".

[provis99]

4. he's probably a terrorist mole.

I don't believe his story of conversion.

[azurnoir]

8. This guy amongst other things plays to Christian ignorance

Jesus in Islam

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=214&topic_id=230513

one can see from the few responses that the spirit of Christian "goodness" was out:sarcasm: