Masab Yousef, the son of West Bank Hamas Leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, one of the most popular West Bank leaders, revealed last week in an interview with Haaretz newspaper that he left Islam and is now a Christian.  Yousef’s family did not know that he had converted to Christianity prior to the publication of the interview, even though Yousef says he talks with his family regularly, so the article was a big surprise to them.

Yousef says he first heard about Christianity eight years ago when he was living in Jerusalem and accepted a friend’s invitation to hear about Jesus.  Now thirty years old, Yousef says he became enthusiastic about what he heard and would read the Bible in secret every day.

“[T]his interview will open many people’s eyes, it will shake Islam from the roots, and I’m not exaggerating,” Yousef, who now resides in the United States, said. “What other case do you know where a son of a Hamas leader, who was raised on the tenets of extremist Islam, comes out against it?”

“A verse like ‘Love thine enemy’ had a great influence on me,” Yousef recalled. “At this stage I was still a Muslim and I thought that I would remain one. But every day I saw the terrible things done in the name of religion by those who considered themselves ‘great believers.’

“I studied Islam more thoroughly and found no answers there. I re-examined the Koran and the principals of the faith and found how it is mistaken and misleading.”

However, with Christianity Yousef says he can understand God because He is revealed through Jesus Christ, and says he considers Islam “a big lie.”  “The people who supposedly represent the religion admired Mohammed more than God, killed innocent people in the name of Islam, beat their wives and don’t have any idea what God is.”

The article also says that Yousef now lives in the U.S., and I am glad for his sake that he is, because I’m sure his family is not thrilled to hear that he has become a Christian.  I would guess that a death sentence will be put on Yousef, if not by his family then surely by other Hamas leaders.  After all, he forsook the Muslim faith to become a follower of Christ, which to them is the worst possible thing he could have done.  Please pray for Masab Yousef, that he will remain strong in his Christian faith and that God will protect him from those who would want to harm him.

from OneNews.comhttp://onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=208026

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