An Egyptian’s Perspective on Islam

Last week on a business trip I had the blessing of riding with a Christian cab driver, who was also a Coptic Egyptian and naturalized American citizen. He had strong opinions about Islam, Muslim immigration to the United States, and the adopted country he loves.

He is familiar with both the Arabic as well as the softened English version of the Qu’ran. Both say that only Allah is God, and that Muhammad is a superior prophet to Jesus, and that Jesus is not the only Son of God, and that He did not die sacrificially for the sins of the world¹. Both say that a different duty is owed to Muslims than to non-Muslims.

Clearly, in the Arabic Qu’ran, Muslims are to either convert non-believers (infidels), or kill them⁴. If they do not kill them, they should try to cheat them, and they do not owe non-Muslims the truth². Allah says that they should hate infidels. Whereas, Christianity says that we should love our enemies, and that we owe all men the truth. Jesus is the truth³.

The Arabic Quran give men complete property rights over women⁶. He was dismayed at how a Muslim man would leave his wife and children in the Middle East, immigrate to America on a work or visitor visa, then marry an American woman, live with her for 3 years until his American citizenship was permanent, then divorce the American woman and repatriate any American born children back to the Middle East.

He spoke of his love for America which he said Middle Eastern countries equate with Christianity and the Cross of Christ. He believes it is not only a mistake, but a crime to allow the immigration of America’s ideological enemies.

We did agree on the solution. The power of the gospel and truth is still able to soften even a Muslim heart and make a new creation and child of God⁵. And we should evangelize and disciple the Islamic community with fervor. But, we should not be foolish about the Islamic agenda. And, he openly says that Allah is not any god, but rather Satan himself in one of his many names, the Father of Lies, and a Destroyer to all who follow his false religion.

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1. Qu’ran Surah 3:59: The similitude of Isa before God is as that of Adam; He created him from dust… 4:157: That they said in boast ‘we killed Christ Isa, the son of Mary”… but the killed him not, nor crucified him.

2.Qu’ran 8:30 They plot and plan, and Allah, too plans, but the best of planners (deceivers) is Allah.

3. 3Bible John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

4. 4Qu’ran Surah 8:65 O Prophet, urge the believers to fight. If there are twenty patient men among you, you shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred, they shall overcome a thousand unbelievers, for they are a nation who do not understand. 9:29: Fight those who neither believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forgidden, and do not embrace the religion of the truth, being among those who have been given the Bood, until they pay tiute out of hand and have been humiliated. 2:193: Fight against them until there is no dissension, and the religion is for Allah.

5. 5Bible Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

6. 6Qu’ran Sura 2:223 Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like… 4:24: And forbidden to you are wedded wives of other people except those who have fallen in your hands (prisoners of war) (slave-girls are sexual property for their male owners.) Sura 4:3 And if you be apprehensive that you will not be able to do justice to the orphans, you may marry two or three or four women whom you choose. 4:34 … If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them, then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them.