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2012-06-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islam is 'a religion of war,' says son of Hamas founder on a visit to his 'beloved Israel'
Mosab Hassan Yusef has a knack for controversy. The son of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, founder Sheikh Hassan Yusef, he has already broken every taboo in the Paleostinian book. He has worked for Israeli intelligence and converted to Christianity. Now he is developing a new film which is sure to be no less sensational: a biography of the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

Yusef, 33, broke ranks with Hamas in 1997 and began working for the Israeli internal intelligence service Shin Bet. Ten years later, after helping Israel thwart dozens of terror attacks and arrest many members of his former movement, Yusef left for the United States where he sought political asylum and later converted to Christianity.

Today, he says, he is back in Israel for the first time on a personal visit “to inspire a new generation of Paleostinians.”

‘I love Israel because I love democracy,’ Yusef told journalists in Jerusalem
“I love Israel because I love democracy,” he told journalists in Jerusalem Tuesday. “I am here to protest religion’s absolute control of people’s lives.”

Standing next to his retired Shin Bet handler, Gonen Ben-Itzhak, Yusef refused to answer questions in Arabic. He said he was on a mission to educate the public about the true nature of his former religion.

“Islam is not a religion of peace. It’s a religion of war,” he said. “Moslems don’t even know the true nature of their own religion.”

‘He saved many lives and stopped many attacks,’ Ben-Itzhak says. ‘I think that we, as Israelis, must show our gratitude to people like him’
To that end, Yusef decided to produce a film about the touchiest subject of all: the revered prophet of Islam, Muhammad. He says the film is based on a traditional biography of Muhammad written by the eighth-century Moslem historian Ibn Ishaq.

He said the film is unique in that it will be produced by Moslems, “or people of Moslem background,” unlike recent European attempts to tackle the complex historiography of Muhammad. With a written screenplay, guaranteed funding, and a celebrity actor (whose name he would not divulge) in the lead role as Muhammad, Yusef said he hoped filming will commence next year.

“Muhammad is still untouchable,” Yusef said, noting that controversial as it was, Mel Gibson’s 2004 film “The Passion of Christ” touched many people worldwide.

Another film, expected to be produced before “Muhammad,” is a cinematic adaptation of Yusef’s 2010 autobiography “Son of Hamas,” in which he recounts the tale of his cooperation with Israeli intelligence. Yusef said the book was already translated into 25 languages and is available for free download in Arabic on his personal website.

When asked what he would tell his father if he were in the room, Yusef said only: “Leave Hamas. You have created a monster.”

Gonen Ben-Itzhak, Yusef’s handler who appears in the book under his operational pseudonym “Captain Luay,” said he considers Yusef “his brother” and has become his close friend after their professional paths parted in 2004.

“He saved many lives and stopped many attacks,” Ben-Itzhak told The Times of Israel. “I think that we, as Israelis, must show our gratitude to people like him. Even while working for us he was always against bloodshed, on both sides.”

Ben-Itzhak noted that Israeli officials voiced their concern about Yusef’s arrival in Israel as his life is still under threat, but added that Yusef was allowed into the country with neither visa nor passport.

“His story is very unusual,” Ben-Itzhak added. “I can’t recall the last time an ‘asset’ came out like this.”
More details and a video from the Jerusalem Post.

This article starring:
Mosab Hassan Yousef
Mosab Hassan Yusef
Posted by trailing wife 2012-06-22 00:48|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top
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#1 How in the name of all that's holy is this dude still alive?????

Having read about him before I don't think that this is an extended Taqiya performance. But boy if nothing else will do it a movie about Mo-ham-head???? Hope he's not planning on visiting Holland anytime soon.
Posted by AlanC 2012-06-22 07:28||   2012-06-22 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 With a written screenplay, guaranteed funding, and a celebrity actor (whose name he would not divulge) in the lead role as Muhammad, Yusef said he hoped filming will commence next year.

Muslim educated? A friend of Hollywood elite? Loves golf? Currently embroiled in a nasty Mexican weapons scheme? Available for....on-site work next year?
Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-22 08:00||   2012-06-22 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 When asked what he would tell his father if he were in the room, Yusef said only: "Leave Hamas. You have created a monster."

Secretly his father is already aware he has created a monster.

In a UN peace talk meeting in Jerusalim with the founder of Hamas, Israelis, etc., a Christian negotiator was given the opportunity to make one last statement like everyone else in that room that afternoon. And he said, "If all the people of this world would accept the fact that not far from this room, God's own son came and not far from here died for the sins of us all, if all the world would realize that, our children would no longer be dieing in wars for the percieved greavances of our so called enemies."

The room went silent.

He said the Hamas founder, big, hard looking man followed him outside the building and the negotiator at first feared for his life, but when he got to the car, the big man caught up with him, put his arms around him, and said, "You are a good man, a very good man."

I am sure he still loves his boy.
Posted by Sheba Slating7731 2012-06-22 13:29||   2012-06-22 13:29|| Front Page Top

#4 "Islam is 'a religion of war,'"

At least one of you will say it. And it is true. Do you know with what you are at war with?

Probably not because there are no more Hittites. No one.
Posted by newc 2012-06-22 14:48||   2012-06-22 14:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Or as a baseball writer might say it:

No Ruins, no Hittites, no eras.
Posted by badanov 2012-06-22 18:30|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2012-06-22 18:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not sure it that's the worst pun I've ever heard, badanov, but it's definitely in the running.
Posted by trailing wife 2012-06-22 19:08||   2012-06-22 19:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Just trying to be helpful...
Posted by badanov 2012-06-22 19:15|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2012-06-22 19:15|| Front Page Top

#8 your room? Go to it
Posted by Frank G 2012-06-22 20:45||   2012-06-22 20:45|| Front Page Top

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