What Kind of Opposition Do You Face in a Majority Muslim Context?

What kind of opposition do you face in a majority Muslim context?

The host country we're serving in is a majority Muslim nation, and as part of that, Islam has completely spread into all parts of the culture, all parts of the government. And that's an interesting context to live among.

I've not personally experienced any outreach by Islamic groups or Muslim people. But I think there's an identity that's found in these majority Muslim nations— to be from this country is to be Muslim, to be from this language group is to be Muslim. And they're very much set up a paradigm.

I found in our experience with Islam, Islam either teaches its adherents to have one of two attitudes toward other religions. And that's one of fear: stay away from it as far as possible, it's dangerous, stay away from it. Or hate: despise it, crush it, scatter it, do away with it. And so those are the two receptions that we've had. Some simple things of trying to bring a gift to a family down the street and being refused, because they cannot take this from a non-Muslim because they're Muslim. Or just having people try to frame us for things that have gone wrong, and having to deal with those cultural difficulties.

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