By Chuck Bennett for the NY Post

NEW YORK — This 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.

Bike-Cab Jihad Jerk is a Hate ‘Pedaler’

By Chuck Bennett for the NY Post

NEW YORK — This 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.”

11 Comments

  • Send it out

    CH info should send out disinfectants to all it’s viewers to clean their computer screens after viewing this jerks picture.

  • Pathetic

    He probably didnt get much attention as a kid, and probably didnt get much jewish education either. May Hashem help that he come to his senses and do teshuva.

  • random facts about this heritic

    he was satmar, and hates lubavitch, and even what he does now, his main group of jews he targets is lubavitch for propaganda

  • A highly defective person

    He must have read that book…. The 7 habits of highly defective people.

  • shocked at him

    I can not believe that a jew, even a convert to islam (he is still a jew…) would do this.

  • Hashgacha pratis

    OMG!!! soo ironic cuz i saw him in starbucks today in brooklyn heights with another muslim looking guy!!

  • do not obscure facts

    someone (who is jewish) who openly and publically embraces another religion – is called a MISHUMOD and is chaiyav missa al pi halacha. (It is interesting to note that even the Morronos – who were threatened by death if they didn’t accept goyishkeit, were not 100% accepted as Jews – because they publically accepted goyishkeit.) AL ACHAS KAMA VKAMA – this rosha is not any better than all the other mishumodim who came before him – and are chaiyav missa as well. (Mishumod = oivaid avoida zara = death.) end of story.