The second commonly-held fallacy is that it is somehow easier to win converts from other major, non-Christian religions once people are living in a free, western Christian country. Again, that is simply not true. We should not be surprised to realize that the control that Satan and sin have over a person, a family, a religious entity, or a people group does not end merely by someone boarding a plane or a ship and disembarking in an airport or arriving on the shores of a politically free or so-called Christian country.
Evil does not surrender its adherents simply due to geographical location.
What does change, perhaps, is their access to Jesus that these people might now have. What seldom changes, though, is Satan's hold on them or his desire to use them destructively within the heart of Christendom. Sometimes Christians tend to believe that simply because these Muslims are now currently residing in a free country, where there is freedom of religion and a democratic government, they now can freely change their religious affiliation with impunity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Satan recognizes no borders in his attempt to keep his adherents enslaved and he does not cease in his efforts to punish them if they stray from the fold.
Candidly, the church can expect that, short of imprisonment, torture, and death, Muslims who convert to faith in Christ in the United States will experience every persecution common to converts from Islam who remain in their home countries and culture. They will be beaten by their families and placed under house arrest.
Believing men will lose their education and jobs and will be sent to their home countries under close male supervision. They will be disinherited if they continue in their faith. One of the common "solutions" for young women who believe in Christ is to be shipped home and married to Muslim man many years her senior.
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