Mr. Fischer:

Your understanding is correct that I often engage Muslims.  Here, for example, is me doing so while standing where the Imam leads the prayers in the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque in Erasmia, South Africa. I would invite everyone to listen to the 2.5 hour encounter, and especially watch as the camera pans the Muslim audience seated on the ground only feet from where I am standing. This is one of nearly forty such debates from all around the world, including South Africa, London, and Australia.

But what truly leaves me in wonderment is how you could possibly confuse how I would engage with Muslims in debate and my comments about a despicable rapist who pretends to show the world how to be a “man.” Sure, he claims to be a Muslim now, but having heard him speak, I know he knows next to nothing about Islam.  But what is more, he stands in rebellion against everything God has revealed in His Word regarding how to live life, how to respect women, how to interact with others—everything.  And when someone says “Our young men need masculine role models and are gravitating toward him” I will respond the only way I can: that is sinful.  Destructive. And it truly makes me wonder what these “Christian” young men are seeing in their own homes.

So you have made a major category error when you confuse the years I have spent studying Islam, the Qur’an (let me guess, you’ve not read my book, _What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur’an?)_, the Hadith, etc., with my biblically based rejection of Tate’s destructive rebellion.  The appeal of his message?  It’s called the flesh.  It’s called lust, sin, pride.  Is the New Testament truly so obtuse that we don’t bother to read it anymore?  Do I have to repeat the blunt words of Paul exposing just this kind of behavior?

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age,” (Titus 2:11-12)

I did, in fact, address the appeal of Tate’s message, for exactly what it is, sinful rebellion that will lead a young man to ruin and destruction. I directed them to the wisdom of Proverbs (not contemporary enough?), and to repentance and faith in Christ.  If this is not sufficient for you, please tell us how we can improve upon the Triune God and His Word?