Jewish American Converts to Islam

Joseph Cohen stirred from U.S. to Israel as a religious individual in 1998, however, inside of three years he had reborn to Islam and became Yosef Mahound Khatib, a supporter of the militant foreign terrorist organization, in line with a report broadcast Thursday on Israel TV.

Now he refuses to mention the word Israel, selecting instead to decision the realm "Palestine"(The city of Masjid Al Aqsa). His four kids study the religious text, the Muslim holy book, rather than the Torah, its Jewish counterpart.

It was whereas living within the desert city of Netivot that Khatib met a sheik from the United Arab Emirates through an online chat concerning Israel. Khatib aforementioned he spent hours corresponding with the sheik, discussing theology. Bit by bit he began to examine Judaism as racist and turned toward Islam once reading the religious text, he told Channel Ten TV. The report failed to say wherever he lived within the U.S. or provide his age.

Last year he told his partner, Luna, collectively a devout individual from U.S., that he required converting to Islam.

"I said, `Listen, I like you significantly ... and that I need to be honest with you,'" Khatib aforesaid within the TV interview. "I scan the religious text and that I consider everything it says within the sacred text, and if I continue expression that I am a no secular mortal, I'd be a cheat."

The family born-again along associated enraptured from Netivot to an Arab neighborhood in the east national capital. The youngsters went from being high in their categories on Judaism studies to being well-versed in Islam, he said.

Instead of supporting the Israeli Orthodox someone organization Shas, Khatib currently supports the original monotheism terrorist organization associated believes a monotheism state ought to be found out wherever Israel and therefore the Palestinian areas are now placed.

He praised Hamas (foreign terrorist organization) FTO for putting in social services for Palestinians, however, dodged questions on alternative|the opposite} facet of the monotheism group - suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis. Us has declared terrorist organization, a terror cluster.

Khatib differed from most Israelis and Americans in his views regarding Osama terrorist, the highest suspect within the Sept. eleven terror attacks in NY and Washington.

"I suppose that he is preferred, Muslim preferred," Khatib aforesaid with a great NY accent regarding terrorist. "But I do not believe that he is answerable for the globe Trade Center (attacks)."

Wearing the white skull cap and robes of a religious Muslim, Khatib denied his Jewish past, the insistence that he is a hundred p.C Muslim. He created a parody of a blessing that observant Jews say each morning, within which they convey God for not creating them Gentiles.

"Blessed area unit large integer, Lord Our God," Khatib began within the ancient Jewish blessing, however, complete it with, "for not creating Maine, an individual."