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Evangelists pester Iraqis

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Nothing like a bunch of self-righteous born again pests to alienate people.

An influential Shiite Muslim leader, Sheik Fatih Kashif Ghitaa, said, "Iraqis already see the American occupation as a religious war." Ghitaa said Shiite and Sunni clerics have discussed issuing a fatwa, or religious edict, against missionaries.

The missionaries — a mix of professional proselytizers and novices with little or no preparation — are buoyed by President Bush's evangelical bent, his oft-repeated biblical references and his vision of freedom spreading out from a saved Iraq.

"God and the president have given us an opportunity to bring Jesus Christ to the Middle East," said Tom Craig, an independent American missionary working in Iraq and Cyprus. ...

Charles Duhigg, Los Angeles Times: Evangelicals Flock Into Iraq on a Mission of Faith

Richard Evans Lee
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And an edict is going to stop who? There were missionaries there already. If the typical 'American Freedom' is established in Iraq, though that is most doubtedly going to happen, then missionaries will be free to enter and leave as they please, saying whatever they will. If missionaries are, say, killed on sight, that won't stop many people. Most christians who go into missions work aren't afraid of opposition. Ask the missionary families who were stripped naked, tied down and run over with a steam roller, children first, or the little girls that were shot in the head for not spitting on the bible.

Posted by: Dustin | June 8, 2005 11:56 AM

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Richard

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