Top Hamas Leader’s Son Converts to Christianity

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.”