“There’s not just one legal approach to protecting religious freedom. You have to find an approach to both the individual’s right to religious liberty and the corporate right that organizations have—that means the right to participate fully in the society. How you do that has to take into account the historical cultural realities of Iraq. But the bottom line is that you’ve got to protect the full spectrum of religious rights for everyone.” http://www.reason.com/hod/tc052903.shtml

In evangelical churches and seminaries across the country, lectures and books criticizing Islam and promoting strategies for Muslim conversions are gaining currency. More than a dozen recently published critiques of Islam are now available in Christian bookstores. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/national/27ISLA.html

A radical Islamic movement is sweeping across Iraq and it has the Christian community here on edge. In Basra and across this country, leaders of the Shiite sect of Islam are calling for Iraq to become an Islamic state. A minority in the Islamic world, Shiites make up about 60 percent of Iraq’s population. http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/030520a.asp