The son of one of Hamas’s founders said the organization is more dangerous than ISIS, saying Hamas is driven by a religious hatred of all Jews.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the eldest son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, was raised within the militant group but later turned against it and spied for the Israeli Shin Bet. In an appearance on Fox News, Yousef said Hamas is impossible to reason with due to its religious nature and it is driven primarily not by a desire for Palestinian liberation but rather by the destruction of Israel and all Jews.
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“Hamas is a religious movement, and they are a raging religious movement against Israel. The mainstream media cannot say this because they are afraid to ignite a religious war. And what I say, it already is. They want to annihilate the Jewish people because they are Jewish people because they are a Jewish state,” Yousef said. “They are driven by dark hatred toward a race, toward a nation.”
He said it was improper to compare Hamas to ISIS because the former is more dangerous due to alleged global support.
“It’s the wrong comparison to say Hamas and ISIS because I think Hamas is a lot more dangerous,” Yousef said. “Look at the division and the global confusion because of Hamas. They brought us to our knees somehow by their brutality and their barbarism. Brutality is even understating Hamas’ acts.”
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Yousef said he grew up believing in the ideals of Hamas but became disillusioned during his time in prison alongside other Hamas members when he witnessed them torturing and murdering suspected Israeli collaborators. In 1997, he began spying for the Shin Bet, using his status to undermine Hamas’s attacks and plans.
Yousef also said that he became disillusioned with Islam around the same time, converting to Christianity sometime later. He outed himself in 2007 and sought asylum in the United States. He wrote an autobiography about his time in Hamas in 2010 called Son of Hamas.
