We often read biographies about people converting to Islam from Christianity, but I wanted to post a story about a man of Jewish faith – Yousef Al Khattab and his conversion to Islam. You can click on the link or read below:
I was born to a Secular Jewish family, and at the age of 18 years old decided to look “deeper” into belief in God. Like most people, I looked at religion from a view point that was closer to me. Being that my family was Jewish and I was raised to attend Jewish schools I looked into Rabbinical “Orthodox Judaism”.
In the year 1988 I entered a Yeshiva and started my journey into the Orthodox Rabbinical racist cult. In 1991 I wed my 1st wife (then) Luna Mellul now Qamar al Khattab. She was from the Moroccan town named Tetouan and was attending the racist Orthodox Jewish girl’s seminary known as Breuers or Sampson Raphael Hirsh Bet Yaakov aka Bais Yakov.
1992 bought us the birth of my 1st child Abdel Rahman (formally Rachamim Cohen). Alhumdulilah he was then as he is now my pride and joy. Upon the birth of Abdel Rahman we were living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the Satmar Hasidic community. I used to see all the lying and cheating, government scams and money laundering using the Synagogue and Yeshiva bank accounts and the poor hygiene of these folk, and was nervous for my new born son not to grow up like these folk. We tried broadening our horizons and moved to the Ocean Parkway area of Brooklyn, later that year.
1994 till 1998 bought us the birth of 3 more wonderful children alhumdulilah. Hesibeh, Abdel Aziz (formally Ezra),and Abdullah (formally Ovadia) during these years I tried to convince myself that Judaism was a true path and I just didn’t understand it because I never read the entire set of Talmud and it 3 different ways of understanding it including the “hidden level”. You see this is the trick in the rabbinical cult, you will not EVER finish learning all the rabbinic text thus u are subservient to the Rabbis (aka Elders of Zion) who will interpret Judaism for you. During this time frame the Rabbis saw that we doubted there beliefs thus constantly followed our family contacting al new friends and employers etc. The Rabbis MUST ALWAYS know where you move to and who are your friends. The Rabbis were starting to be a big nuisance as were the Rabbinical Jews so seeking a better future elsewhere we loaded up the family and moved to Palestine. (then like most westerners we were brainwashed to refer to the Jew entity as Israel).
September,1998 we now arrived in Ghaza or what the Jewish squatters refer to as Gush Qatif. Quickly my wife was turned off by the lies of the folk there and my son Abdel Rahman came running home from school one day saying “Daddy, my teacher doesn’t cover her hair properly, her dress is to short, they don’t learn Torah here and all they do is play”!! Maashaallah, my son was very correct so with no possessions or money we set off to find a home in the nearby Jew settlement of Netivot in occupied 1948 Palestine. Shas, a “religious political party” immediately helped us by providing a home and their private school system and my kids went from knowing NO Hebrew to being tops in there class alhumdulilah. During our stay in Netivot I met a Muslim from UAE and we had conversations for about 2 years where he would ask me questions about Jewish Aqeedah or Jewish creed, and then compare it to Tawheed al Elohiya a part of Islamic Monotheism. I would then go and ask major Rabbis questions about the Jewish creed and always got 60000 different answers. The Jews can’t even tell you where there God is based on text; rather they say God is everywhere! (authubilah) One day I decided to go to the Arab souk and buy a translation of the meaning of the Holy Quran in the English language. Subahanallah!!!!! I could not put it down!! Every problem I had with Jews and Judaism was being addressed by Allah the Most High, in the 1st 3 chapters of the Quran Allah swt answered most of my doubts about Judaism. The Quran is firm with the Jews and invites them to a just truth (Islam) to save them from the hellfire their ancestors are currently in.
When I finished reading the entire Quran,I could no longer associate with Jews any longer, thus I was obliged to tell my wife I am a Muslim. Alhumdulilah within 2 weeks my wife decided to read the Quran and became a Muslimah!!! Then the kids after her alhumdulilah.
Today 2004 alhumdulilah I live in the Palestinian Authority with my wife and kids and my 2nd wife as well Sajada a Muslim Palestinian. My kids’ alhumdulilah no longer remember Hebrew and their 1st language is Arabic. All are learning in Islamic Arabic schools alhumdulilah and we thank Allah subahan wa tala for blessing us with Islam.

Thank you for this post. Very happy to learn about the conversion of Yousef Al Khattab.
By: Junaidah on March 9, 2007
at 10:56 am
pls viset this link
http://www.al-yemen.org/vb/showthread.php?t=239729&page=62
i need your comment
جزاك الله خير
By: אלוחישי on January 4, 2009
at 2:27 pm
He went from one intolerant fundamentalist strain of one religion to another, that’s all. This guy would be an asshole whether he became a Buddhist, a Hindu, or a Morman (or a Communist for that matter – same fundamentalism, just replace God with Lenin).
By: Socialist Jew on November 10, 2009
at 12:04 pm
I would NEVER move my family to live on illegally occupied land in Palestine, and even if I were to move my family to Israel proper (no chance of that – I’m an American and I have a responsibility to give back to this country), I wouldn’t ever consider it until Israel and Palestine have a just and legal peace between them. The fact that Khattab/Cohen actually moved his family to GAZA shows that he is at best naive, and at worst completely unable to understand when he is putting himself and his family into dangerous situations. This guy is one of the few real geniune SELF HATING JEWS I have ever encountered. Usually that term is used prejoritively by right-wingers for Jewish people who criticize Israel. It’s obviously that this guy is a bigot against Jewish people. Fer crissakes, this guy was a Satmar – they already hate non-fundementalist Jews! So it wasn’t hard for him to turn to hating all Jews. Finally, this isn’t an interview – it’s just cut and pasted from his blog. Five years from now I predict this guy will be calling himself either a Maoist, a Hindu nationalist, or will be back to Judiasm is trying to volunteer for the IDF.
By: Socialist Jew on November 10, 2009
at 12:20 pm