Mosab Hassan Yousef: Out of the darkness, and into the light

FoxNews had a wonderful story the other day about the son of a Hamas member rejecting Islam and converting to Christianity. He begins the interview with

I believe that all those walls that Islam built for the last 1,400 years are not existing (sic) anymore. They don't recognize this. They built those walls and made people ignorant because they're afraid. They didn't want people to discuss anything about the reality of Islam, about the big questions of Islam and they asked their followers, the Muslims, 'Don't ask about those certain questions.'

But Mr. Yousef asked the questions, and

So basically this is what happened. It's not easy to believe this (Islam) is not your father anymore. So I had to study Islam again from a different point of view to figure out all the mistakes, the huge mistakes and its effects, not only on Muslims — (of) which I hated the values ... I didn't like all those traditions that make people's lives more difficult — but its effects also on humanity. On humanity! People killing each other (in) the name of God.

So definitely I started to figure out the problem is Islam, not the Muslims and those people — I can't hate them because God loved them from the beginning. And God doesn't create junk. God created good people that he loved, but they're sick, they have the wrong idea. I don't hate those people anymore but I feel very sorry for them and the only way for them to be changed (is) by knowing the word of God and the real way to him.

Welcome to the family of God, Mr. Yousef. You are a shining example of Ephesians 2:1-10:

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches ofHis grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Make sure you read the whole interview.

Comments

[James Atticus Bowden]

1.

See my post today on Islam's tolerance. Thanks for posting this - I heard about it about a month ago.

Islam can't compete in the open marketplace of ideas. That is why Liberals and Muslims insist you not criticize Islam - in the name of tolerance.

Christians have a higher standard than tolerance - love. Loving our Muslims neighbors. That means speaking the truth, boldly, in lovingkindness about a barbaric religion long overdue for the ash heap of history.

[Maher Ghali]

2.

I am in Egypt.. Today in 21.00 Cairo local time will talk Mosaab to the Al Hayat Satellite Channel.. on Hotbird Satellite !!
in Egypt we can see all the Islamic false faith what is doing to the people !!

God Bless

Coptic from Egypt