Muslims are everywhere

This has been a week to meet Muslims. In the DuPage College student center, it seems that about a quarter of the students are Muslims. The last guy we spoke to really knew his stuff. He said that he had memorized the entire Koran in his youth (why can’t we memorize some of the Bible?), and rattled off the common Islamic objections to Christianity (“your Scriptures have been corrupted”, “you worship many gods”, “your idea of forgiveness promotes irresponsibility”, etc.). Fortunately, I remembered some of our fall Islam class (thanks, Bill Scheerer!), and was able to answer some of these objections sensibly. But a guy like this could only be reached through love, and the sovereign working of the Spirit.
Two days later I was again in a similar discussion with a Moroccan fossil dealer in NJ. Muslims are increasingly everywhere. We all need to learn about Islam if we are to give a good defense of the faith to those we meet.