By New York Post
Manhattan, NY – A jihadist wannabe is a “terror” on the road.
Yousef al-Khattab is a Jewish-born, Jersey-raised convert to Islam who schleps tourists on his pedicab by day and propagandizes for the terrorists he idolizes by night.
“I give a real tour of the city — 47th Street, this is where they launder drug money for Colombia, this is the Garment District, from here they run the slave shops of the world,” the attention-loving al-Khattab, 41, said.
He spends his free time annoying mainstream Muslims by handing out hate-filled literature outside the city’s mosques with a handful of followers in tow or posting death threats against Jews disguised as prayers on his “Revolution Muslim” Web site.
“Anyone who denies jihad is not a Muslim, that is what the Koran says,” the bushy-bearded al-Khattab — birth name Joseph Leonard Cohen — told The Post. “I am talking about the physical, armed jihad, not the spiritual kind.”
Last January, al-Khattab printed the address and pictures of the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn with the message “Do Not Let Orthodox Judaism Get Away From Murder in Ghaza.”
That screed was interpreted as a bomb threat, causing the NYPD to beef up security around the synagogue and pay al-Khattab a visit.
He’s on the radar of both the FBI and the NYPD, but he’s not considered a real threat, law-enforcement sources said.
Gregg Zukowski, president of the NYC Pedicab Association, said he was unaware of al-Khattab’s jihadi side until contacted by a reporter.
“He’s out there and working hard,” Zukowski said. “[His beliefs] don’t impact on his business.”
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The worst thing you could possibly do is ignore this! Why wait until Jewish blood is spilled to take action??
THe guy’s a Rodef big time. He is a threat to you and your family. You gonna hug him or protect yourself?
By the way he was frum – chasidish – r”l has a wife and kids too who left the path and brainwashed by him
the Rambam wrote clearly in Mishne Torah that Yishmoel is NOT avoda zoro
To # 6 “…you are oblivious…”
Since when is Islam Avodah Zoroh? I challenge you to find a makor that maintains that it is.
Aveiros he will have, just like any other Yisroel shechatah.
does ‘ve-ahavta leraecha komocha’ apply to him and people like him?
You only encourage him.
He is like the skinny, American crazy meshuchist “boy” who davens loudly in 770 and tries to call attention to himself constantly.
By posting this you made his day, his week, his year.
Take down, this is not news, this is hurting the poor wacko.
also Lubavicher non-peyos.
You are oblivious to the basics of Judaism. According to halacha such a man is never ever ever allowed back into our Holy Religion. Are you not aware that Christanity was also started by a meshumad?!!
If this person, by some miracle, does indeed decide to do teshuva, he may perhaps be accepted by the Almighty, but he is never to be accepted back into the Jewish community.
ok why exactly was this posted??
At least er trugt a yarmulkeh.
Hes crazy. Who cares? One more nut in an already nutty New York. Why are you giving this wacko undeserved publicity?
Now we know what he looks like, it’s time to run him out of town.
This mans Nefesh Habahamis has taken him for a drive he will come back one day