Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, defected from the terrorist group in the late '90s and secretly worked with Israel's security services to expose and prevent several Hamas terrorist attacks.
My primary intellectual need is to achieve understanding. I am a science educated liberal, secular humanist, and strong-atheist who has become increasingly dismayed and angered by the anti-humanist bigotry displayed by fundamentalist religious dogmatists.
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