#12373 Why I Left Islam w/ Ismail Youseff - Ismail Youssef
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this interview, Catholic Answers Producer Edgar Lujano talks about Islam with Muslim to Catholic convert Ismail Youseff.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:00 – You don’t hear of a lot of Muslim Convert
- 04:00 – What would It take to Evangelize a Muslim Effectively?
- 05:40 – What are the most effective arguments for a Muslim?
- 07:35 – What does the saying “without reason” mean?
- 10:45 – How is the person of Jesus himself an argument against Islam?
- 15:30 – What is meant by “The Muslim Dilemma”?
- 17:45 – Is Islam pretty unified or divided?
- 19:45 – Has the Koran been changed?
- 21:46 – How does the Muslim view of heaven compare with the Christian view?
- 29:10 – Why did you decide to start sharing your testimony?
- 30:35 – Growing up as a Muslim in Canada
- 32:40 – Watching the livestream of the killing of the Coptic martyrs.
- 34:02 – Slavery in the Koran
- 37:05 – I asked Jesus if Christianity is true.
- 40:15 – How did your family react to you leaving Islam?
- 45:17 – How did the Christian missionaries introduce you to Jesus?
- 47:55 – How would you invite a Muslim to consider Christianity?
- 51:00 – Every religion has to deal with Jesus.
Transcript
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome to Catholic Answers live. My name is Edgar Lujano, filling in for Sykella today. |
| 0:35.2 | When Sai is out, I have the opportunity to fill in on this side of the glass. |
| 0:39.9 | And today is one of those days where I kick Sai out of a seat and I get to hang out with you guys. |
| 0:44.5 | So it's great to be here with you guys. Today we have an awesome two hours for you. |
| 0:49.4 | The second hour we're going to have our good friend William Albrecht. |
| 0:51.9 | He's going to be answering questions or how to respond to Islamic arguments or answering Islam. So second hour, you can |
| 1:00.9 | go ahead and give us a call and ask your question there. But for this hour, we get to have more |
| 1:05.5 | of a conversation with a new guest that we haven't had on before. If you've been anywhere on the online Catholic |
| 1:12.3 | world within the last five months or so, you've seen his rising up amongst the interwebs, |
| 1:18.9 | and you get to see him pretty frequently on a few different podcasts, mainly about five months |
| 1:23.6 | ago he was on the podcast with our good friend Matt Fred over at Pines with Aquinas. |
| 1:28.7 | We have Ishmael Yusuf on here to talk about his conversion from Islam to Catholicism. |
| 1:35.0 | Ishmael, welcome to the show. |
| 1:36.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah, it's good to have you here. |
| 1:38.4 | That's great. |
| 1:38.7 | I remember watching the conversation with you. |
| 1:43.8 | I remember watching the podcast with you a few months |
| 1:47.5 | ago and thinking, what an absolutely incredible story. Something that you don't actually hear |
| 1:52.7 | much about on media. I've heard apologists, people who are arguing against Islam from a |
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