@ellharris412. - One of my closest friends is a believer in Islam. He comes from a moderate background and has had an inter religious marriage (He is Muslim and his wife is Hindu). and he believes the Quran to be the word of God and Allah to be God and so on. He believes the Quran is absolute and infallible. However he hasn't read the Quran, not in English (which is his first & preferred language).

There are many occasions where I end up in a debate with him on validity of his belief and his religion and scripture and a few times I seem to push the boundary with some drastic information yet he would go home and find an apologetic argument to still believe.

I have reached the conclusion that some people need to believe. They find solace in their faith. They need faith faith as much as I need scepticism. I find fear in faith, he finds meaning. No matter how much I convince him of what appears to be the falsehood of religion he will find an argument to justify it and no matter how insane the argument , he will believe it.

Its not like he isn't educated. He is highly Intelligent and very well educated, yet that is his vice (vice as it appears to me, he might deem it a virtue).

People come to irreligion by choice and no amount of reason or rationale can convince them otherwise. However If you can be a voice of reason enough so as not to antagonise him but fend him from the poachers like the guy in your video and other scam artists that religion is filled with you could help save him from getting ripped off or worse turn radical.