Brother Rachid

In 2005, he began hosting his own television program on Al hayat TV comparing the virtues of Christianity over Islam, including 55 taped episodes of Lifting the Veil and 555 live episodes of Daring Questions, ending in 2018, after 12 years which allowed Muslims to call in and ask questions about Christianity, and also featured testimonies from former Muslims who have converted to Christianity. The channel is controversial in the Islamic world and is banned in several Muslim countries. The channel was founded in Cyprus in 2003 by Al Hayat Ministries, an evangelical organization. In 2006, new evangelical partners joined Al Hayat TV, including Joyce Meyer Ministries.

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. He studied economics and computer science at Hassan II University in Casablanca. In 1990, at the age of 19, he converted from Islam to Christianity after studying the differences between the two faiths with the original intent to defend Islam. When his parents found out about his conversion, they ejected him from their home and he went to live with a missionary but was eventually forced to flee Morocco. 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 believing that if more Muslims understood the words of the Quran, they would leave the faith.

Brother Rachid (born 1971, Morocco) is a Moroccan Christian convert from Islam whose father is an Imam, he hosts a weekly live call-in show on Al Hayat TV where he compares Islam and Christianity.