written by Benjamin Gill of the Christian Broadcasting Network: 

Juman Al Qawasmi was once married to a Hamas member in Gaza. Not only that, her father was one of the founders of the Islamic extremist group.

"We used to curse all the Christian(s) and the Jewish (sic). We feel like we should kill them because this is what (the) Quran say. Yeah, I know it's crazy, but we used to believe in Islam, like we should kill all the Jewish, and even Jesus will come back and fighting with us, and he will break the cross and kill the pig, and the trees and the rock will call the Muslim and say, oh, Muslim, there is a Jewish behind me, come and kill. So it's crazy," she explained.

When Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, she saw how violent they were, killing fellow Palestinians just to consolidate their power. She says their objective was to make everyone feel scared unless they surrendered to Hamas's control.

Based on her experience with Hamas, and her life of trying to appease the Muslim God, she explained, "Islam does not give you peace. And you're always scared something wrong will happen."

But she wanted to know the truth about God, so she prayed, "God, if you exist, I want to know you. I want to meet you because I know deep inside there is a God."

What happened next is a story you have to hear to believe. She then saw Jesus in a dream, and he spoke to her in Arabic, saying, "You are my daughter, don't be afraid."

https://youtu.be/Avl4vRkjbS8

also LifeSiteNews:

Al Qawasmi was raised to hate Jews, Christians, and even Shia Muslims, and was taught that they should be killed, she told CBN’s Raj Nair. She began to question the radical religion and culture into which she was born when Hamas started killing Palestinians and other Muslims, and began “making people feel that if you don’t belong to Hamas you should be scared.”

She also noticed that Hamas did not fulfill their promise to “give people equality.” Islam itself, in her experience, also instilled an attitude of fear and disquiet. “There’s something wrong with this religion,” she thought at the time.

“I felt God would never be happy with me. I was always scared of hell,” said al Qawasmi, adding that she was plagued with doubts that God accepted her prayers. “Islam does not give you peace.”

When a friend of hers who had become an atheist encouraged her to read the Quran objectively, without the assumption that it is a “holy” book, her eyes were opened to the absurdity of its claims and teachings. As an example, she pointed to a portion of the book in which God asks Muhammad’s son to divorce his wife so that Muhammad can marry her.

(AI Overview says: 

According to Islamic sources, the Prophet Muhammad 

did not encourage his adopted son, Zayd ibn Harithah, to divorce his wife, Zaynab bint Jahsh, so he could marry her. In fact, when Zayd repeatedly complained about marital problems and expressed his intention to divorce Zaynab, Muhammad advised him to "Fear Allah and keep your wife". 

The marriage between Zayd and Zaynab was arranged by the Prophet in the first place to establish the precedent that a freed slave (Zayd) was a suitable match for a woman of high social status (Zaynab was Muhammad's cousin), thereby breaking down social barriers and the pre-Islamic practice of judging people based on social standing.

However, the marriage was unhappy due to personality clashes and Zaynab's feeling of social superiority to Zayd, leading to irreconcilable differences. After Zayd had exhausted all efforts and finally divorced her, and her waiting period ("iddah") was over, the Prophet Muhammed married Zaynab himself.

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Another conflicting report: Muhammad would repudiate Zayd as his son, abolish the institution of adoption, and send Zayd to certain death on a battlefield in southern Jordan. (This sort of seems like  King David's approach with Bathsheba's husband, yet not as much of a desperate situation as with King David.)

While 

Juman Al Qawasmi became completely disillusioned with Islam and now rejected it, she knew “deep inside” that God was real. 

So she prayed to God “every single day: ‘God, if you exist, I want to know you, I want to meet you.’”

After these prayers began, God healed her children, said al Qawasmi, when they “almost died.” She asked God in prayer to reveal Himself from 2012 to 2014, at which point the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) was bombing homes close by, including their neighbor’s home. She said the IDF called her husband to ask if their neighbors were home, and proceeded to destroy their house after her husband said they weren’t home.

Al Qawasmi was very frightened and cried that night, thinking she might die. She implored God again in prayer, “God, if you exist I want to know you. I want to call your Name. I want you to save me.”

That night, she had a dream.

She had never heard the name of Jesus before, never having met any Christians. In Gaza as in Qatar, she was completely surrounded by Muslims. 

“I thought, it’s a beautiful Name. He’s a beautiful God. I felt peace inside my heart. For the first time I felt like someone loves me,” she continued. “Because I never feel love with my family…

I love my family, but being Muslim, you don’t have peace. God is always mad about Muslims.”

After the dream, curious to know more about Jesus, she searched His Name in Google, and found a website created by an Egyptian Christian. The first verse she saw was “love your enemies.” This was a stunning contrast to the Quran, which “says to kill all the Jews and the Christians,” she noted.

*****(AI Overview disagrees, as it says the following. Here is a breakdown of the Quran's position: 

Prohibition of Killing Innocents: The Quran explicitly states that "if anyone slew a person—unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land—it would be as if he slew the whole people; and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people" (Quran 5:32).

Context of Conflict: Verses that command fighting, such as Surah 2:191 or 9:5, are generally interpreted by scholars within the historical context of early Muslims being persecuted and attacked by specific enemy forces in 7th-century Arabia. These verses are not a general call for unprovoked violence against all non-Muslims. The preceding verse to 2:191 explicitly states, "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors" (Quran 2:190).

"People of the Book": The Quran often refers to Jews and Christians respectfully as the "People of the Book" (Ahl al-Kitab). It acknowledges shared religious values and offers them religious freedoms and protections under Islamic rule (known historically as the dhimmi status). *****(AI Overviews description: Dhimmi was a historical protected status for non-Muslims, particularly Jews and Christians, living in an Islamic state, granting them the right to practice their religion and providing protection in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of a special tax called the jizya. This status imposed restrictions, such as limitations on public displays of faith, restrictions on building new places of worship, and specific social and dress codes. While the dhimmi system created a hierarchy, the enforcement of its rules varied significantly over time and location, with periods of tolerance and prosperity contrasting with times of severe oppression. )

Peace and Coexistence: The Quran encourages Muslims to deal kindly and justly with those who do not fight them on account of their religion (Quran 60:8), and to engage in "respectful" and "gentle" dialogue. Another verse states, "For you is your religion, and for me is my religion" (Quran 109:6), emphasizing religious pluralism.

Varying Interpretations: While some verses appear hostile when taken out of context, mainstream Islamic teaching emphasizes a "just war" position, allowing fighting only in self-defense and under strict ethical guidelines, which includes prohibitions on killing women, children, and unarmed people. 

The notion that the Quran commands the indiscriminate killing of all Jews and Christians is a result of verses being taken out of context and misinterpretations.) Yet, Juman Al Qawasmi says they teach 5 & 6 year olds to hate Jews and Christians, and also how to hold weapons and how to use them. ***** 

Back to Juman Al Qawasmi ...she contacted the website’s administrator, who asked her to read the Bible and told her there are “thousands of Muslims are seeing Jesus in their dreams and converting to Christianity.”

“I accepted Jesus into my life and I’ve started my journey with Him,” says Juman Al Qawasmi.

Canary Mission give a somewhat different view, yet this is what AI Overview says:

Canary Mission is an anonymous, pro-Israel website that publishes dossiers on students, professors, and organizations, primarily in North America, who it alleges "promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses". It operates as an online blacklist intended to harm the academic and professional careers of those profiled by making their personal information and activism easily accessible to potential employers and government agencies. 

Key aspects of Canary Mission include:

• Doxxing and Blacklisting: The site publishes personal information, including names, photos, social media links, and professional details, to create a "dossier" on targeted individuals.
• Stated Goal: Its launch video explicitly aimed to prevent pro-Palestinian student activists from getting jobs after college, stating, "It is your duty to ensure that today's radicals are not tomorrow's employees".
• Controversy and Criticism: Critics, including many academic and civil rights groups, have described Canary Mission's tactics as McCarthyist, a form of cyber-bullying, and a campaign to silence free speech and advocacy for Palestinian rights by conflating it with antisemitism or support for terrorism. Reports indicate its profiles often contain falsehoods, misrepresentations, and errors.
• Government Use: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have testified in court that they used Canary Mission profiles to create target lists for investigating and potentially deporting international students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Israeli authorities also use the website's data at border control to deny entry to individuals.
• Anonymity and Funding: The individuals running Canary Mission remain anonymous. Investigative reports have linked its funding to wealthy American philanthropists and foundations who donate through an Israeli charity named Megamot Shalom.
• "Ex-Canary" Process: The site offers to remove an individual's profile if they publicly "repent" and publish an apology essay acknowledging their "mistakes," a practice also widely condemned by critics as a form of ideological coercion. 

https://mesana.org/pdf/Exposing_Canary_Mission.pdf

That being said, and a bit inconsistent with reporting ...well, how are we to really know? And I sort of think we attempt to get to know that which we don't know. And perhaps I didn't phrase that the best way. Of course we would attempt to know what we don't know in many instances. After all, isn't that called 'learning'?

But, if we are to assess what we've learned, is it really 'knowing', or is it how someone else wants us to perceive it all? And what we attempt to know is not so much knowing at all.

And we take sides with what we believe. Though that in itself is not the worst it can get. It is extremely concerning when we side with beliefs that hurt others. Now, I'm not saying that others will never get hurt. it has often been said that the truth hurts. But, it's more how we present the truth.

This blog began as a discussion about God. If you don't believe in God, I personally think you are hurting yourself ...but, by telling you what I believe is the truth, my intent is not to hurt you. I want everyone to feel free and peaceful as Juman Al Qawasmi. Free from doubt and guilt, free from condemnation and the fears of not being 'good enough', and free from the process which eventually leads to the annihilation of conscious.

And I am a Christian ...and I don't want to be associated with the group 'God, guns, and country' ....and I do not have a MAGA hat. Yet, I also don't stand with any party that stands for things that I don't believe in ...which most times is all the political parties to some extent. But, I also know earth is not a perfect world, so I look to the 'lessers', and I try to use wisdom. My Christianity is based on the Bible, and that takes a lot of work (and discussion too.)

(Yet, it becomes very problematic when we judge an entire group of people or a nation by what we believe is within that group or nation. And the young woman mentioned in this blog is an example of that. It is very clear that she was taught lies, yet she was able to see that those lies did not match with what she saw. Now you can say that sometimes my actions do not match with my professing that I'm a Christian. But being a Christian does not mean I am good, it means that God is good. And I believe that goodness you find about God is in the Bible. And if we are talking about a nation, there are good and bad organizations within most every nation, and if most of the organizations are controlled by the government, they can be bad or good, and a change in those who rule within the government can affect that in a good or bad way. And that is evident in the nation where the woman I mentioned lived in ...and it is also evident in the nation I live in. Yet again, it is sad when we feel compelled to solely focus on the wrongs that others do and not at all address the wrongs that we do. And sometimes we too easily tend to use others as scapegoats ...whether it is individuals, or nations. And instead of asking them what they are truly saying or what they mean, we tell them.)

Many people would say Juman Al Qawasmi was not correctly reporting how things were, and I've also heard Christians say that Christian Broadcasting Network is biased. And it's not shocking to hear Christians say that about other Christians ...surprisingly without detail, clarification, or examples. Look at my own reviews:

"Stephen Meiner" appears to be an author of Christian-themed fiction and non-fiction books, particularly a series called The Evolution of Confusion. He does not have a broad, mainstream public opinion in the way some authors do, and available reviews are limited, mixed in nature, and often found on niche platforms or author's personal websites.

General reception can be summarized as follows:

• Praise: Readers who enjoy his work often appreciate his simple explanations of complex biblical topics and find his books spiritually insightful and helpful for their personal faith journey.
• Criticism: Critics, which appear to include some other Christians and general readers, suggest he sometimes misinterprets or downplays certain biblical accounts, and some express that his books may not have a broad appeal beyond a specific audience. The works often revolve around Christian living, faith, and the intersection of religion and life's challenges.

(And part of the reason why I wrote some of the books was motivated by my feeling that others at times have a very strong interpretation of accounts written in the Bible, and I wanted to provide a perspective of thinking that I believe is not only more believable but also is supported with verses from the Bible. Yet, I do not boldly say the others misinterpret those accounts and verses ...I present reasons why I believe as I do. And I am not aiming at a particular audience ...though I would like to reach out to what some people call 'seekers'. While I was in a Facebook group, I shared conversations with others, and the people most critical of my comments were those who don't believe the Bible is accurate ...and they also said I didn't interpret certain accounts accurately because they don't think those Bible accounts are meant to be literal. And it sort of makes me wonder how someone can say an account is not interpreted correctly when they don't believe in the very account that is the subject of discussion.)

I asked AI how they can list criticism of Stephen Meiner's books if they also say there are no reviews. Here is AI Overview's answer:

AI can list criticisms of Stephen Meiner's books even without traditional reviews by accessing and analyzing other available information, such as book descriptions, excerpts, public discussions, and related external critiques of the author's work or the ideas presented.

Here is how an AI can generate such criticisms:

• Analyzing Book Content: The AI can process the book descriptions and publicly available excerpts to identify the core themes, arguments, and writing style. Based on this analysis, it can compare the content against general writing principles or common logical fallacies.
• Leveraging External Debates: For non-fiction or books dealing with controversial topics (such as those by authors like Stephen C. Meyer who write about intelligent design), criticisms often stem from a broader academic or public debate surrounding the subject matter, not just book reviews. The AI can draw upon these existing, widely-published arguments against the author's general stance or specific claims made within the books.
• Inferring from Author's Stance: If the author is known for a particular viewpoint, the AI can access the common arguments made by critics of that viewpoint. For example, some search results mention that a "Stephen Meyer" (note the different middle initial and specific topic) is associated with the intelligent design movement, which faces significant scientific and theological criticism. The AI might reference these established criticisms.
• Identifying "Gaps" or Misrepresentations: The AI can look for claims that a book misrepresents scientific data, uses a "god-of-the-gaps" approach, or relies on outdated research, as mentioned in critiques of similar works.
• General Writing Critiques: The AI can generate general criticisms related to style, such as "a lot of filler text" or issues with structure, based on patterns it has observed in other texts and writing standards. 

• In summary, the AI is not providing "reviews" in the consumer sense but is instead using its training data and ability to synthesize information from related sources and existing critical discourse to formulate potential or actual points of contention regarding the book's content and arguments.