As Jews honor Shabat, the Sabbath, and as Christians are getting ready to celebrate the Joy of Christ in church tomorrow, this story is heartwarming to say the least!  The leader of Hamas' son converts to Christianity.  What he has to say, I'm sure, resonates with many moderate Muslims;

“A verse like ‘Love thine enemy’ had a great influence on me,” Yousef recalled. “At this stage I was still a Muslim and I thought that I would remain one. But every day I saw the terrible things done in the name of religion by those who considered themselves ‘great believers.’

“I studied Islam more thoroughly and found no answers there. I re-examined the Koran and the principals of the faith and found how it is mistaken and misleading.”

But with Christianity, Yousef said he could understand God as revealed through Jesus Christ. He said he could talk about God and Jesus for days, but Muslims are not able to say anything about God.

“I consider Islam a big lie,” said the son of one of Hamas’ founders. “The people who supposedly represent the religion admired Mohammed more than God, killed innocent people in the name of Islam, beat their wives and don’t have any idea what God is.

“I have no doubt that they’ll go to hell. I have a message for them: There is only one way to Paradise – the way of Jesus who sacrificed himself on the cross for all of us.”

Four years ago, Yousef decided to convert to Christianity but did not let his family know. He still helped his father with his political activities, and his father only knew his son had Christian friends.

“I felt responsible. It was better for me to be there rather than a gang of fools who would poison his mind,” Yousef explained. “I tried to understand those people, their thoughts, in order to change them from inside by means of a strong person like my father, who admitted to me in the past that he does not support suicide attacks.”

From the standpoint of the war we are fighting worldwide against Islamofacists, this is very good news indeed! God knows who are His, and who are not.  He calls those who are His by their reading of His Word.  It obviously happened in this case.  If you have the Spirit of the Lord God, you question the barbarity of the Islamist tactics!  I've posted about the Imam who complained that Islam was losing 6,000,000 to Christianity a year in the past.  Why is that?  Islamists, satan's minions, are losing to the Power of the Lord.  He will be the ultimate victor in the war our troops are facing, with their able assistance in showing the Iraqi people the love and concern that is a natural capacity of the American spirit, and imbued to US by His teachings, found readily in the founding fathers documents. Do you have any question about why the left keeps trying to get God out of our schools and government?

[Hat tip to BrianH at ITM] 

BTW, you really should read the latest post at ITM regarding the perfidy of our "allies" the Brits!  It is a statement of how they are being held hostage in their own country by the Islamists we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Their own "open border" policies should be a lesson to US!  With the loss of Tony Blair, the resolve he so clearly showed, they lost sight of the original objective in Iraq, i.e. a free and democratic ally in the midst of our enemy nations.  A pity.