Thursday, July 22, 2010

 

Pastor Jack Schaap, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, interviews Mosab Hassan Yousef (author of the book, Son of Hamas) on Thursday, July 22, 2010, in front of 7,000 youth workers and teenagers during a Youth Conference. This is Yousef's first public interview after being granted political asylum in the United States.

 

 

"Mosab Hassan Yousef was born in Ramallah, in the West Bank in 1978. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a founding leader of Hamas, internationally recognized as a terrorist organization and responsible for countless suicide bombings and other deadly attacks against Israel. Yousef was an integral part of the movement, for which he was imprisoned several times by the Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service. He withstood torture in prison only to discover Hamas was torturing its own people in a relentless search for collaborators. He began to question who his enemies really were— Israel? Hamas? America? After a chance encounter with a British tourist, Yousef started a six-year quest that jeopardized Hamas, endangered his family and threatened his life.  He has since embraced the Christian faith and sought political asylum in America." - www.sonofhamas.com