Here is a further exposé of Nabeel’s dishonest sleight of hand in front of an American Christian audience. In some small way I am familiar with the religious psychology of these people. When I was a Christian (yes a ‘real’ one – not a Mormon or Jehovah’s Witness) I was baptised in my local Baptist Church. In front of the congregation I gave my testimony of faith – describing the kind of life I led before I became a born-again Christian. Another new Christian was baptized with me, a former street thug who had spent much of his time in prison. I remember the round of applause he received from the audience. The point being that evangelicals love a good testimony, the more lurid and ungodly the sinner’s past the better.

Nabeel is speaking from within this tradition. I imagine there must be a great temptation to ‘improve’ ones testimony, to spice it up, to introduce dramatic risks that did not really happen, to give the audiences what they want to hear.  It all makes for a much more vivid and impressive story, and surely does wonders for one’s career as an evangelist. But at what price?

One inconvenient truth remains stubbornly clear however:

If Nabeel had remained a Qadiani ‘Muslim’ not in a million years would he have joined ISIS. His sect’s theology and ethics are strictly pacifist and he would have utterly rejected ‘Jihad’ on principle. Nabeel covers over this inconvenient truth by creating a new truth – that is really a lie.

Categories: Christianity, Islam, Missionaries