Kasim, It takes a lot of courage to write an article like that. I usually dont respond to articles, but I felt compelled to with this one. I truly applaud your courage and commitment to peace for all. You are a brave man to stand against everything you were taught, and what the Muslim world is still teaching today. How do we get the message out to more Muslims about the truth of Israel?

We would finally have peace !

to the Christian world. Our continued existence proves that their religion is FALSE!

Truth holds to itself, no matter how many seek to corrupt it.

kol ha kavod for this courageous man!

Sure, you've learned this truth strolling the TelAviv beach and praying in Jaffa moques??? have you been to the west bank at all? or Gaza?? East Jerusalem or Mea shaarim? did you read any books about Israel's history? did you hear anything about how Israel was created? about the ethnocracy??sure the Arab and muslim world are full of problems and tyrants but Israel's records are not so bright either and the massacres it commited are well documented Mr. genius.

I cannot say it enough...if only we could clone you a billion times!

a "tsadeek", a righteous person. I recently returned from Israel, I saw moslems in Tel Aviv, moslems in the airport, moslems shopping in the stores. In fact, I saw moslem men and women *GASP* holding hands! Would this even be allowed in a moslem country? I would challenge any of the talkbackers here who claim that Israel is an oppresive, apartheid state to see this with their own eyes, or better yet, to talk to someone like you, who knows both sides of the coin personally. Thank you for being the brave person that you are.

This is indeed an excellent article and Mr. Hafeez is to be complimented for his bravery in telling the truth. PG his words will reach the ears of other Muslims who are not brainwashed extremists and we may see a swing ij the moderate Muslim world towards forging ahead with a plan to promote peace between the Arabs and Israel. Asfor the comments of Salim (#8) my advice to him is to open his eyes and he will see that the problems in Gaza and the West Bank are ALL due to the extremist Islamic Arabs alone.They are the ones who mistreat their own people. They are the ones who steal foreign aid sent to help their brethren .They are the ones who promote violence.....so Mr.Salim, get your act together or crawl back into the hole that your crept out of.

a baseball player for the New York Mets during their tremendous losing streak? Don't recall seeing the name anywhere else.

This self-promoter's story doesn't quite add up.

You're either living on another planet or your memory is null.

Fair enough, Phil. There are always shades of grey. I stand with the author, but, of course, no country, and no people is perfect. And I don't think he thinks so either. Facts and fairness are part of it. Can you elaborate a bit on the facts you feel are missing?

how so? care to enlighten us all???? i doubt you even know what you are talking about straight from dublin.....a city and country that is broke!

...I had tears in my eyes as I was reading your amazingly courageous and truthful article. It gave me hope that maybe one day, there will be peace between Moslems and Jews. God bless you my friend.

just one question for you three...have you ever visited israel and seen for yourslf ...or are you just going on what you have been brought up to think. no one can see things clearer than one who has been on both sides and seen the truth.

al Quds come from the hebrew Kadosh,the so called moha-med use to call the city of king David the Kadosh yerouchalaim the eternal capital of the jewish people

awesome...,GOD Bless you bro.truth speak for the truth. Don't stop.

He is an ill person. Let him go to Gaza or the West Bank and see what Israel Settlers are doing and how they are destroying the environment and deprive Palestinians from their basic needs.

GOOD ARTICLE.

Just a question, where would you rather live right now? Bahrain or Saudi Arabia where odds are you would be one of the 80% slaves (assuming you are a man)? Yemen, Libya or Syria where you will likely be raped or have your arms chopped off? Lebanon where soon you will have a civil war? Or maybe Egypt, with no food, no education and sleeping in a graveyard? Or maybe you prefer writing Talkbacks from an Internet Cafe while drinking cappucino ruled by the descendants of the Koranic prophets (except 1), in Ursalim al Quds the city of the Jews Daoud and Suleiman?

It's funny that 'intelligen' Europeans who love to listen to Islamists spreading their hate (against Jews, Christians & the West) are not willing to listen to those who left, even when they know the truth from within.

Their religion ìs false, but then again, the same could be said of ours. We can fight about truths or falsehoods for years, but at the end of the day, our religion starts off with two naked people in a garden accompanied by a talking snake just as theirs. Oh yes, your capitalizing the word ''false'', looks somewhat immature. Why do you need to shout?

Finally a country that has kept all its senses! Israel should ask help from Canada and no longer count on those U S traitors. Canada's Prime Minister has been very positive about the future of Israel for a while. Let's hope it will become a strong ally and provide all the help we lost from our ex-friends the US about to become our Ennemies

Ireland has been the most hostile of any European country towards Israel? Why? What is it that turned you guys against the Jews?

Both you and me know Islam is not just about quran, it has hadith (or shia hadith for me). Both you and me know, there is a famous hadith that says jews must be killed in the end days. Both you and me know Quran said Jews are greedy and will be Islam greatest enemy. Both you and me know Quran is designed to "eat" christianity and judaism and replacing those two. You can see Quran says Moses, David, Solomon are muslim, and Jesus too ! Both you and me know, in the end, muslims are people that do the quran and hadiths. I know i am not a muslim anymore, you still call yourself a muslim, i wonder, how can you call yourself a muslim if you only believe in verse that says La illaha il Allah, but you reject other verse that says Jews are greedy and will be Islam greatest enemy. Honest question, from a former shia from Qom :)

Both are under MUSLIM control. Exactly how many 'settlers' are in Gaza? Care to answer that? The Arabs are the occupiers of our lands, not the Jews. Time to deport the illegal colonists. The terrorists in Gaza - to Egypt. Those in the Yesha to Jordan.