Mosab Hasssan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, explained his decision to convert to Christianity in a Washington, D.C. talk last night, concluding “[t]he god of Islam is the god of hate.”


He asked and answered a hypothetical question at his talk to a pro-Israel group.

“What would happen if Israel just disappeared from the map? There is no Israel anymore. Would there be peace in the Middle East? Palestinians would kill each other, I guarantee you.”

The former spy for Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service has a new book, Son of Hamas, detailing his undercover exploits, radical decision to leave Islam and become a Christian convert, and his undercover work.

Incredibly, the United States is currently seeking to deport Mosab Hassan Yousef for having connections to Hamas. He immigrated to the U.S. in 2007 to convert to Christianity, and his life would certainly be in jeopardy if he was to return to the West Bank that he once called home.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s absurd notion that Yousef poses a security threat is, at best, comical. Deporting a man who opposes Hamas terror back to a certain death — after he surreptitiously fought against it, risked his life to save the lives of innocents, and fled terror to find a new home — is a comment on the Obama administration’s current naivete.

Yehudit Barsky, has an excellent monograph on the Hamas terrorist group.

Barsky is the Director of the Division on Middle East and International Terrorism at the American Jewish Committee.

You can read Barsky’s work on Hamas here:

Hamas – The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Yehudit Barsky

Today’s conviction of a tax-exempt Muslim non-profit group created in part, according to prosecutors, to raise money to support HAMAS after it became a U.S.-designated terrorist group, and the conviction of five (5) of the group’s leaders is a big win for U.S. prosecutors.

Read the indictment below:


The Holy Land Foundation’s terror indictment for funding HAMAS’ maintained that:

• “[T]he HLF provided significant financial resources to HAMAS leaders and key strategists”
• [T]he HLF sent approximately $100,000 to HAMAS’ future Political Bureau Chief Mousa Abu Marzook and his associates.
• “[F]rom 1988 through 1989, the HLF wire transferred approximately $670,000 to an account held by the Islamic Center of Gaza…established by Hamas spiritual leader and founder Shek Ahmed Yassin, and was used by him to conduct and coordinate HAMAS activities”
• The HLF funded children and families of HAMAS suicide bombers and relatives jailed on terror-related charges to help “HAMAS’ efforts to win the hearts and minds of” Palestinians.”

According to the Dallas Morning News, a number of HLF defendants have family who are Hamas leaders:

• Defendant Mufid Abdulqader is the brother of Hamas’ leader Khalid Meshal a/k/a Khaled Meshaal
• Defendant Mohammad el-Mezain, an HLF co-founder, is a cousin of Mousa Abu Marzook, Mishal’s deputy, and married the cousin of Ghassan Eslashi, former HLF board chairman reportedly living in Syria with other Hamas figureheads

U.S. federal prosecutors in Dallas, Texas began their closing arguments in the criminal re-trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (a/k/a ‘HLF’) and individual defendants, accusing them of acting as illegal fundraisers for Hamas, and a conduit for paying families of Hamas terrorists money after terrorist suicide attacks committed by family members.


The first trial took place in 2007. It resulted in a mistrial in the criminal case against almost all the suspects, except for Mohammad el-Mezain who was acquitted on all charges except for one count of conspiracy.

Federal prosecutors spelled out their arguments for the current case in their trial brief, maintaining that they would show how:

“the defendants, through the HLF, were engaged in a conspiracy to support Hamas through their membership in the Palestine Committee, an organization created by the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood to assist Hamas, which itself is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Along with the HLF, whose function was to raise funds on behalf of Hamas, the Palestine Committee oversaw the Islamic Association for Palestine (‘IAP’), the United Association for Studies & Research (‘UASR’) and, later on, the Council on American Islamic Relations (‘CAIR’).”

In short, they hope to prove that a small number of Islamic organizations that purported to be charities with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status were acting as conduits for Hamas’ terrorist financing. The U.S. Attorney’s laid out detailed wire transfers by people acting on behalf of HLF that went to Hamas-run institutions in Gaza and the West Bank that, according to testimony, were actually conduits for a portion of Hamas’ outlawed terror financing efforts

The Dallas Morning News has ongoing coverage of the case. Last week the newspaper linked to Hamas posters introduced into evidence at trial that were printed following the terrorist group’s suicide bombers’ (whom Hamas actually calls ‘martyrs’) following their terrorist attacks, with corresponding translations.

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