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Out of the Crescent Shadows: Leading Muslim Women Into the Light of Christ

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When I started reading this book,I simply could not put it down.I was very moved by the openess and frankness of the authors who wrote this.Christians really need to learn about this religion of over 1.5 billion people so we can be a better witness to them.In this book,the authors explain passionately the beliefs and mindset of the Muslim woman in a simple way that can be easily understood.Raised as Muslims,the authors received Christ as Savior when they were young adults and now they have a desire to reach out to the Muslims with the only real truth there is-Jesus Christ.Anyone who wants to get a better knowledge and understanding of Muslim women should read this book.Behind the veil of a Muslim woman,there is a needy and aching heart in need of Christ.

This book is a must read for women and very insightful. Realizing that Biblical Christianity can touch a life by every single interaction we have, and also that many Christians don't really know how they would approach or broach the subject of religion with a Muslim woman, this book is an excellent resource! Christianity and the Muslim faith are opposing beliefs. They do not believe in the same God, the same Jesus and the same Holy Spirit. To love a Muslim enough to tell them about the God of the Bible will open doors to allowing them to hear the truth. God's Spirit will work from there :)

Well worth the read, and Unveiling Islam is the next book on this same subject that EVERY CHRISTIAN, male or female, should read.

Great book. Provides insight into the lives of Muslim women. Their thinking, their mindset, unspoken issues. You judge if you think these women have a voice. What is the outworking of fear in their lives?

Regardless of "dreamer's" opinion of the book, "veiled and lovin it" seems to think that this is an open forum for religious debate. Get over yourself and either review the book or don't post.

Let me say it again: this area is for book reviews, not social commentary.

That said, I found the book to be well written, insightful, and informative. However, the book makes some basic assumptions about muslim women that I found inaccurate. I know several muslim women (including my own sister), and the only one that I know personally that fits the authors' mold used to be Roman Catholic and converted to islam to marry her husband. That's not a good comparison.

The book is interesting and can be informative, as long as you don't take it as a stand-alone guide to dealing with muslim women. I'm sure there are many muslim women that this book would help you understand, but it is certainly not the key to all of them.

Dr. Caner is a Turkish, Persian immigrant, and a former Muslim. His father was a muezzine in the mosque. I'll take my chances with his knowledge and experiences, versus that of the people whom you "know" and/or "heard the facts" from.

This book is inviting Muslim women who presently believe;

God transcends sexes(ontologically different cathegories); sexes are for the created
Man and woman are created from the same selves (ontological equality)
A woman can stand up in a mosque and remind the caliph his duties (and the caliph says "she is right and I am wrong")

To another faith which believes;

God is male (a father) that gives birth to a God-son (another male).However the worldly birth is by a human-woman.
Man is the primary creation and the woman secondary
A woman cannot talk in a church but can ask her husband later

With an art finding its roots in sophists who openly said: "our art is one of showing the small big and the big small"

As a proverb in my country says "a mighty arguing thief can overcome the houseowner". Something like that.

Do not forget many ex-christian western people came to the realization that the basis of all inequality is due to a MALE God. The troubles about women's issues are ontological in Christianity and the accusations -which I disagree with most but agree with some- on Islam are in level of law or tradition. Former unsolvable, latter something can be done about if people intend to.

Indeed Muslim scholars are very expertly critical of their hadith collections from the earliest days of their existence. This criticism finds its roots inside Islam:Quran is divinely preserved, Allah said so but Allah did not say such a thing about the sayings of the prophet so noone can say hadith collections are perfect.How much ever you try you may not be able to escape human errors in them. This is most beautifully and very briefly summarized in Murad W. Hofmann's Islam in 3rd Millenium in a constructive way.

Also one wonders if crescent is a shadow and Christ is light are they not equally shadow and equally light for Muslim men? Is this a trick of (conceptually) "divide and destroy"? As we well know Evangelists care less whether we Muslims become Christians or not but basically want to diminish the resistance of Islam to Anglo Saxon/Jewish hegemony which we Muslims mostly find unjust.

The impressionn that the authors have been brought by a muslim cleric father is misleading. Their mother was not Muslim- she was Swedish though I donno if she truly practised Christianity. Due to difficulties in family at an early age they have been taken by Evangelic Christians and they have learnt Islam Evangelic Christian way.By people who HAVE TO look all other religions as founded by Devil in order to exist. And have to interpret everything according to this basis.If you want to know how the basis you accept changes interpretation than a cow is a god in India, something you fight with in Spain, beef steak in North America etc.I have seen books Christians try to show Buddha's light is from Devil or Hinduism's mystical experience is so too. Wheras Islam sees other religions as teachings of prophets corrupted by time and people and yet still carries something precious in them. Quran says Allah gave compassion to Christians' hearts.I believe this was what Caner brothers faced when they met Evangelists.

As a Muslim woman who covers herself, or is "veiled," we are in no need to find the truth -- we have the truth and that is Islam.

I don't know why others are so hellbent on trying to convert those who follow the fastest growing religion in the world. Maybe because the authors and Sara the dreamer, are insecure with their own faith.

Nowhere in Islam does it encourage forcing religion down someone's throat, yet in Christianity, you can't find a place without some missionary forcing food and the Bible on some child in a hungry city in Bangladesh.

It's actually quite sad when you have no faith of your own and thus prove it by using all your energy to try to change others. Why don't the authors use their energy to become better Christians and leave Muslims alone?

I work with Christians and Jews, agnostics, and atheists and I have never had a problem. No one has tried to convert me, nor have I tried to convert anyone. I show my religion by my actions and vice versa.

Many good people I know are Christians, please stop making them look bad.

First of all, I think we need to clear up that Islam is not far off from other religions such as Christianity anyway. You do not need to go into the light , you are already in it. Islam is the true religion and has been the same message that was given to Adam, Moses, Abraham and Jesus. Sadly, after each prophet passed away, their messages were changed by the people and now the religions are very different. People who still follow the old religions of Christianity and Judaism are very close to being Muslim and there is nothing wrong with that. The problem is when Prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon him) recieved the Quran, it included more of God's message, so it completes it. That's why after that, no prophet has been sent to Mankind. The Quran is all you need. This sister unfortunately has changed her religion for reasons that do not make sense, from a religion that has been clearly explained to a religion that has so many loopholes and things that don't work.
If you read this book , you should know there are many books about people who converted from Christianity to Islam. If Christianity is right, what could possibly make them leave then. If Islam is such a bad religion, then hy is it the fastest growing religion in the WORLD? The message has stayed the same . It's people who have changed. one person leaves, another comes. that's how life goes.
it is a good book to see how they felt but it should not be seen as a true representation of what being a muslim women is like because it's very different.