Posted on 01/06/2015 8:09:01 AM PST by Former Fetus
The trouble at home started when, as a teenager, he began questioning the beliefs and actions of his parents, both ardent Hamas supporters.
“I ended up having a big fight with them, and ran to Israel,” the youth told The Times of Israel in a phone conversation Monday from Edmonton, Canada, where he eventually sought political asylum. A tragic experience in an Israeli prison cell that night sparked a chain of events which would turn the teenager’s belief system on its head, leading him to convert to Christianity and change his name to John Calvin, after the 16th century French theologian.
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Calvin, who requested that his original name be withheld for fear that his family would track him down and harm him, said he was taught to believe that Jews were “monsters whose goal in life is to kill and destroy us in every opportunity they get.” But far from attempting to destroy him, Calvin’s jailers showed “humanity and compassion,” he said.
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Calvin arrived in Canada on a student visa, requesting refugee status in June 2011. But in July 2012 his case was suspended by Canada Border Services Agency, when the Ministry of Public Safety decided that Calvin’s association with his family in Nablus prior to age 18 constituted membership in Hamas, which Canada designates a terror organization.
Following a legal back-and-forth with CBSA over the past two years, Calvin was informed on New Year’s Eve 2015 that his refugee request had been denied and he could be deported within 30 days
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That said, one can not be Christian and gay, at least practicing gay. I pray that he gets to stay in Canada long enough for the Lord to finish the job He started, and that JC feels the conviction from the Holy Spirit and changes his lifestyle.
They don’t publish his original name out of fear that his family might identify him; yet they publish several photographs. I know it’s not witness protection, but ....
Dear God help him!
Not to mention naming his family members. Surely some Palis read Israeli news for intelligence value & would report back.
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