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Osman Jama was five when his family fled Mogadishu by boat. On the second day it tipped, and his twin brother drowned. A year of refugee camps later he landed in Georgia, then Minnesota, where a pastor's kid invited him to youth group. He'd just come back from Hajj — one of four students sent for free after memorizing the Quran — and his plan was to bring Islam to a room of Christian teenagers. What undid him was hearing kids pray to God as a father, a Bible he started ripping pages out of, Saul on the Damascus Road, and Revelation 1:17. He was disowned in 2008. He's been in full-time ministry since 2012, and 23 Muslims have come to Christ through his story.

In this episode:

- Why Somalia fell apart; Black Hawk Down from the ground

- The boat, and losing his twin

- The border guard's cigarette; night terrors and a child psychologist

- "What's it like to send people to hell for a living?"

- Hajj, and going to youth group to destroy it

- Hearing teenagers pray to God as a father

- Abraham and Isaac, not Ishmael — and ripping pages out of the Bible

- Saul becomes Paul; Paul vs. Muhammad

- Revelation 1:17, Isaiah 44:6 and the Quran: "one of the three is wrong"

- The three things Muslims struggle with: divinity, substitution, cost

- Mosque on Friday, church on Sunday

- The Japanese POW camp story and the 10-mile run

- A secret baptism at Madison Lake, and the whole church showed up

- Born twice, die once: the certificate his sister found

- The imam: "It's a phase." Then the mission trip

- Disowned: "blood on the inside to blood on the outside"

- His father's death, and the call his mother hung up on

- His mother's last meeting: an apology, and what she'd told his siblings

- Was it worth it? Three fears on the other side

- "A beggar telling other beggars where the food is"

- A Somali church plant, and his book Escaping Islam

Chapters:

(00:00) Cold open

(00:58) Meet Osman

(02:23) Why Somalia fell apart

(04:49) The boat

(06:23) Nairobi, Cairo, Paris

(08:09) The border guard

(09:57) Night terrors

(11:54) Landing in America

(15:06) The pastor's kid

(16:05) "Send people to hell for a living?"

(17:02) Hajj, and a plan to destroy youth group

(19:58) Kids praying to a father

(20:36) Abraham and Isaac

(21:23) Ripping pages out of the Bible

(23:00) Saul, Paul and Muhammad

(24:53) Revelation 1:17: one of the three is wrong

(28:00) Three struggles, and the cost

(30:30) Disowned

(32:30) The POW camp story

(35:36) Mosque on Friday, church on Sunday

(36:29) The baptism at Madison Lake

(38:22) Born twice, die once

(39:40) His sister finds the certificate

(41:39) "This is serious"

(42:44) His parents' deaths

(43:47) His mother's last meeting

(44:45) What she'd told his siblings

(48:05) Was it worth it?

(49:24) 23 Muslims

(50:27) A recording for his wife

(51:23) A burden for Somalia

(53:16) The book

Related: Ex-Muslim from Somalia: She Tried to Take Her Testimony Video Down — Shamso, Ep. 38

Topics: ex-Muslim, Somalia, Somali Christian, refugee, Hajj, Quran, Muslim to Christian, disowned, baptism, Revelation 1:17, Christian testimony, Osman Jama, Escaping Islam

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