‘You can say you are not a man or a woman, you can say you are not a Kurd, but you cannot say you are not a Muslim; it’s in your DNA.’
This is according to a Muslim-background believer in Jesus (MBB), who indeed told his family he was now a believer in Isa [Jesus]. He came to Christ through an atheist newspaper telling the accounts of people who had turned from Islam to Jesus (the paper held no candle for any religion but was vaguely interested in those who converted from one to another!)
Opened a Bible
For four years he had been a confessed atheist, having come to the conclusion that Islam did not reveal the true God but, prompted by the atheist publication, he opened a Bible at Colossians 1.15, to discover the one who ‘is the image of the invisible God’. He is now among a number leading small embryonic MBB Christian communities in Northern Iraq. But such people face a number of critical issues.
