The baptism invitation which brought new life
As a committed Muslim, Hassan didn’t want to go to his Christian friend’s baptism – but it was about to change his life.
At first he argued against going, but then relented, and saw something from God in the church gathering that shocked him.
“I saw his love in the people that I didn’t understand,” Hassan told God Reports. “The people hugged me and loved me. There were even some ex-Muslims there.”
Such love among the Christians challenged him. He’d already begun questioning his Muslim faith after his childhood.
His father, a radical Muslim, was a secret drunk who brutalised Hassan and his mother and had several wives and many children. He once tried to throw Hassan’s mum from a fourth-floor window.
She instilled Islam into Hassan, taking him to the mosque, teaching him prayers and the Quran.
Hassan tried to get closer to his father by deepening his Muslim faith, and even attacked Christian preachers in the street to impress him.
When they moved from their native Lebanon to Canada, the abuse Hassan hoped would end instead continued.
And, when his mother met an even more extreme Muslim, things got worse.
“It was another level, radical Islam. He was a radical Muslim.
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