Esther Ahmad

If you truly love Allah, you will die for him. Your death will mean much reward for you and your family in heaven. Only death will prove your love. It was the final test. A chance to win not only the love of Allah, but the love of her father—something she had never been able to earn. Esther took a deep breath and raised her hand in the air. At the age of eighteen, she had just volunteered to become a suicide bomber. Defying Jihad is the true story of a girl growing up under radical Islamic rule, trained to believe her ultimate purpose was to serve Allah by dying as a jihadist. But two nights before she was to leave forever, she had a dream . . . one that would change the course of her destiny. Against all odds, Esther became a follower of Jesus—even though leaving Islam meant her death sentence. But rather than kill her immediately, Esther’s furious father challenged her to a series of public debates with Muslim scholars: the Bible versus the Quran. If Esther won, she might yet survive. But if the Muslim clerics won, Esther must renounce her Christian faith. For an entire month—if she lived that long—Esther would be brought before the mob daily to defend her newfound faith. Would God give her the words to argue against Muslim leaders, former friends, and even her own family? Defying Jihad is an amazing story of a woman prepared to surrender all for Jesus—and whose life transformed from terror to overwhelming love.

The Dramatic True Story of a Woman Who Volunteered to Kill Infidels--and Then Faced Death for Becoming One

Defying Jihad

Craig Borlase

The Dramatic True Story of a Woman Who Volunteered to Kill Infidels--And Then Faced Death for Becoming One

Zakhiras Entschluss ist gefallen. Sie meldet sich für den Djihad. Für Allah und den heiligen Koran – die Wahrheit – ist sie bereit, alles einzusetzen, auch ihr Leben. Doch dann erscheint ihr ein fremder Mann in einem Traum, lichtumstrahlt: "Esther, ich bin der Weg, die Wahrheit und das Leben!" Hätte ein Bote Allahs nicht ihren richtigen Namen gewusst? Was hat es mit dieser seltsamen Botschaft auf sich? Und wie kann sie eine Bibel in ihr Haus schmuggeln, um dem auf den Grund zu gehen? Plötzlich findet sich Zakhira auf einem ganz anderen Weg wieder – und als Verfolgte ihrer eigenen Familie.

Ich kämpfte um Allahs Aufmerksamkeit und fand Gottes liebevollen Blick

Die Glaubenskriegerin

James Chester

To my earthly father, my only worth was through my death. But God saw me so differently that, at first, I could barely comprehend it. Esther Ahmad thought she knew the way to earn her Muslim father’s love. She raised her hand for the suicide mission, her martyrdom guaranteeing her family a place in heaven. But God had a different mission for Esther—a journey out of Pakistan, from despair to hope, from shame to purity, and from Allah’s wrath to a Father’s love. In Unveiled, Esther examines a world in which women have no rights, no worth, no voice, and she shows how the treatment of Muslim women is linked directly to Islamic teachings. With vivid personal stories, she lays out the lies of the Qur’an against the truth she found in the Bible. This is no academic comparison but a question of life or death: What is a woman worth?

Esther Ahmad

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