Brother Rachid

Rachid Hammami, best known as Brother Rachid, also Brother Rasheed, (born 1971, Morocco) is a Moroccan former Muslim and convert to Christianity whose father is an Imam. He is a Christian apologist and critic of Islam, and hosts a weekly live call-in show on Al Hayat TV where he compares Islam and Christianity.

Biography Rachid was born in Morocco to a conservative Muslim family and raised in Doukkala. His father was an imam. He memorized one-sixth of the Quran by age 6. After determining that over 80 million Arabs did not truly understand the Classical Arabic dialect that the Quran was written in, he undertook the translation of the Quran into local Arabic dialects In 2006, new evangelical partners joined Al Hayat TV, including Joyce Meyer Ministries.

Views and beliefs Rachid asks that all Moroccans be allowed: 1. To change their religion; 2. To own the translated version of the Bible in Moroccan Arabic or Arabic language without the fear of being arrested; 3. To give Christian names to their children; 4. To teach their children Christianity in school instead of Islam; and 5. The right for free practice of Christianity. and asserts that terrorism begins in the schools and mosques:

Rachid believes that the rise of the ISIS has created an unprecedented crisis of faith in the Islamic world: "Many Muslims are saying, 'If ISIS is Islam, I'm leaving.' Some are becoming atheists...There is a huge wave of atheism in the Arab world right now and many are turning to Jesus Christ. Islam was never faced with this crisis before." Rachid believes that a Christian "awakening" is happening in the Middle East with many Muslims becoming either Christians or atheists after they find out what Islam really is about and that Islam is unlike other religions because "Islam does not accept any law besides Allah's law".

Personal life His wife is also a Moroccan Christian and they have three children.