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Jewish American moves to Israel, and
converts to Islam, backs Hamas
uploaded 29 Jul 2002
JERUSALEM - Joseph Cohen moved from the
United States to Israel as a devout Jew in 1998,
but within three years he had converted to Islam
and become Yosef Mohammed Khatib, a
supporter of the militant Hamas, according to a
report broadcast Thursday on Israel TV.
Now he refuses to say the word Israel, choosing
instead to call the area "Palestine." His four
children study the Quran, the Muslim holy book,
instead of the Torah, its Jewish counterpart.
It was while living in the desert town of Netivot that
Khatib met a sheik from the United Arab Emirates
through an Internet chat about Israel. Khatib said
he spent hours corresponding with the sheik,
discussing theology. Gradually he began to see
Judaism as racist and turned toward Islam after
reading the Quran, he told Channel 10 TV. The
report did not say where he lived in the United
States or give his age.
Last year he told his wife of 10 years, Luna, also a
devout Jew from the United States, that he wanted
to convert to Islam.
"I said, `Listen, I love you very much ... and I have
to be honest with you,'" Khatib said in the TV
interview. "I read the Quran and I agree with
everything it says in the Quran, and if I continue
saying that I'm a religious Jew, I would be a liar."
The family converted together and moved from
Netivot to an Arab neighborhood in east
Jerusalem. The children went from being top in
their classes on Judaism studies to being
well-versed in Islam, he said.
Instead of supporting the Israeli Orthodox Jewish
political party Shas, Khatib now supports the
radical Islamic Hamas and believes an Islamic
state should be set up where Israel and the
Palestinian areas are now located.
He praised Hamas for setting up social services
for Palestinians but dodged questions about the
other side of the Islamic group - suicide
bombings and other attacks against Israelis. The
United States has declared Hamas a terror group.
Khatib differed from most Israelis and Americans
in his views about Osama bin Laden, the top
suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York
and Washington.
"I think that he's number one, Muslim number
one," Khatib said with a strong New York accent
about bin Laden. "But I don't think that he's
responsible for the World Trade Center (attacks)."
Wearing the white skullcap and robes of a
religious Muslim, Khatib denied his Jewish past,
insisting that he is 100 percent Muslim. He made
a parody of a blessing that observant Jews say
every morning, in which they thank God for not
making them gentiles.
"Blessed are Thou, Lord Our God," Khatib began
in the traditional Jewish blessing, but ended it
with, "for not making me a Jew."
Source: AP
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