Video shared on social media by Islamic scholar Yasir Qadhi, who earlier this year spearheaded a failed effort to establish a Muslim-only city outside Dallas, shows an unidentified man confronting more than a dozen teens who had laid out their prayer mats on the sidewalk next to a coffee shop in Murphy, Texas.
He approaches the teens, who are kneeling on the ground, and starts playing duck, duck, goose with them.
"I'm mocking your religion because you're bowing towards a stupid pedophile's grave," he told them. "You need Jesus."
Then man then begins praying a modified version the Lord's Prayer:
"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from Islam. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen."
Dr. Alex McFarland does not expect that to win any souls for Christ.
"For it to bear any fruit whatsoever, it needs to be mature and respectful and factual," he submits.
He figures this interaction did more to burn a bridge to the gospel than to build one.
"In no way are we called to be sarcastic or pejorative or condescending," the Christian points out. "In fact, quite the opposite."
The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights group, is calling for the unidentified man to be prosecuted for hate crimes, but McFarland says that would be going too far.
"While I would disagree with this person's approach, he absolutely has the right to speak his convictions on the Christian religion," he tells AFN.
The Christian Post reports it is unclear when the video was captured or whether the Islamic prayer gathering was organized by Original Mocha Coffee, which bills itself as an "authentic Yemeni coffee shop;" its Instagram page features videos of men in traditional Islamic garb drinking coffee.
The video went viral just weeks after Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) filed legislation to ban all foreign nationals who observe Islamic Sharia law from entering the U.S. or from remaining in the country.
