#12374 How Should Catholics Approach Muslims and the Crusades? - William Albrecht

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“How should Catholics approach Muslims?” In this episode, we explore effective evangelization strategies and discuss the complexities of interfaith dialogue, including the implications of Muslims worshipping in churches and the beliefs of Ahmadi Muslims in India. We also tackle the historical context of the Crusades and the differing perspectives on their necessity.

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Questions Covered:

05:30 – How do we approach a Muslim when evangelizing?
12:14 – How do you feel about Muslims worshipping in churches?
15:26 – Ahmadi Muslims in India, they believe that their messiah lives on earth today, and that Jesus went to India and died in India and is buried there. What does William think of this?
19:40 – Muslims believe that Allah is all loving, but their faith teaches against Christianity and Judaism so how can their followers believe in an all loving God.
29:05 – How can he respond to his Muslim friends who use John 20:17, as an argument to him as a contradiction of the Catholic Faith. How can Jesus be a God if he has a God (his Father)?
34:46 – How should Catholics view the Crusades, there seems to be two extremes of thoughts, secular thought is that they were a terrible thing perpetuated by the Church, His Catholic friends take a hard line that they were absolutely necessary and there was no issue with them
40:45 – Why doesn’t the Catholic Church publish a document detailing the evils and false truths of Islam?
46:36 – 20 yr Son told him last week that he wants to convert from Christianity to Islam
52:40 – What is the mindset of folks who would convert from Christianity to Islam?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back, Catholic Answers live, Edgar Lujano, producer for the show, filling in for Sykella today.
0:38.0	He's feeling a little under the weather.
0:39.3	So when he comes back, you'll have him for the rest of the week.
0:43.1	But today, you get to have me.
0:45.7	And that first hour was fantastic talking to Ishmael Yusuf about his conversion to Islam.
0:51.4	So we didn't take any questions that hour.
0:53.7	But this hour, we're going to open it up because we have the one and only, the strong man of apologetics, the man himself, William Albrecht, to answer those questions regarding Islam. William, welcome to the show.
1:07.1	Great to be here with you, brother. You all able to hear me at all?
1:10.5	Microphone's a little shaky, so I'm'm gonna let you take care of that with um with uh darren and all that but meanwhile uh while uh well they kind of take care of that i'm gonna i'm gonna just keep going down the promos because why not so uh you know the cool thing about being here at catholic answer is that there's always something going on whether it's the conference next week, which I think all of you guys should attend. If you are
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