Crosstalk: March 13, 2019

Usama Dakdok is the founder of the Straight Way of Grace Ministry. He’s the speaker on the daily radio broadcast, ‘Revealing the Truth About Islam.’ He’s the author of the two-volume set, ‘Exposing the Truth about the Qur’an’ and the newly released, ‘Exposing the Truth About Jihad’ and its first Volume, ‘Holy War in the Bible.’

This broadcast began by reviewing the case of Ramin Parsa. Ramin was born into a Shiite Muslim family shortly after the Iranian Revolution. He had a brother killed in the revolution and most of his family’s possessions were taken. He was raised to learn Islamic laws and was made to practice strict Islamic traditions. Following his father’s death, as a young adult, he began to seriously question his faith in Islam and called out to God to save him. He later fled Iran coming to the U.S.

Ramin was detained in August while leaving a coffee shop in Minnesota’s Mall of America. The reason for the detention was due to alleged solicitation. That charge was based upon a casual, unplanned conversation he had before entering the coffee shop as he answered questions from two Somali women about his conversion to faith in Christ.

Eventually the police were brought in and Ramin was arrested on grounds of criminal trespass. All charges were dropped at a settlement conference on March 7th.

Another example of the amazing sway of Islam in America came through during the discussion Jim and Usama had while reviewing some aspects of House Resolution 183 which was voted on Friday. It was initiated as a public rebuke to condemn anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic comments from Ilhan Omar, a sitting congresswoman. The matter took an interesting turn so that eventually Omar was no longer named. As time went on, speech concerning the LGBT community entered the discussion and in the end, the resolution had morphed into one that seemed tailored as a statement against President Trump.