Then I read this: โYou have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heavenโ (Matthew 5:43-45). That's it! I was thunderstruck
Mosab Hassan YousefI still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.
Mosab Hassan YousefI'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.
Mosab Hassan YousefI love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they're like my sons. I raised them.
Mosab Hassan YousefIf you get yourself out of politics, religion, everything, and think as a human, think based on love to everybody, at that moment you have a choice: to be an animal, or to be a human. I choose to be a human being, with conscience and responsibility.
Mosab Hassan YousefPalestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.
Mosab Hassan Yousef