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Missionaries walk a fine line in Middle East (CAIR Lie Barf Alert)
LA Times via Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier ^ | January 2, 2003

Posted on 01/02/2003 10:27:44 PM PST by twntaipan

WASHINGTON -- In two decades as a Baptist missionary in the Middle East, Mike Edens has had a lot of opportunity to worry he and his family could be targets of anti-American passions and violence.

Yet whenever he wondered whether he should leave his post, he always came to the same conclusion: "It's much wiser and safer to be obedient to God and do his work than to do otherwise."

Edens' attitude helps explain why the number of U.S. evangelical missionaries has increased steadily in the Middle East in recent years, even as a radicalized, anti-American form of Islam has raged across much of the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at wcfcourier.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cair; christian; christianity; evangelical; hooper; ibrahim; imb; islam; muslim; southernbaptist; terror; terrorism
Please note how CAIR lies in their accusations about the actions. Evangelicals who minister in the Middle EAst will not hold one-hand with a blanket and the other with a Bible. If they did they would get their hands shot off.

Some of what CAIR says here could be from the Patty Murray lesson book--liberals do not believe Christians do anything from a motivation of love. We know why the Saudis fund mosques throughout the world--to dominate the world--and by force if needed.

1 posted on 01/02/2003 10:27:44 PM PST by twntaipan
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To: twntaipan
"He said, `You Americans will spend millions of dollars to free a whale, yet Palestinian children are dying and you don't care about them.'"

That's because whales don't make their kids strap on explosives and go blow up civilians in shopping malls and pizza restaurants to collect $addam/$audi blood money.

2 posted on 01/02/2003 10:34:35 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: twntaipan
He said, `You Americans will spend millions of dollars to free a whale, yet Palestinian children are dying and you don't care about them.'"

America is the sole reason the Palestinians are not a grease spot underneath Israeli tank treads.

3 posted on 01/03/2003 12:11:02 AM PST by Ajnin
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To: Ajnin
If that were true, America ought to step back in shame and let the treads go forward.
4 posted on 01/03/2003 12:13:54 AM PST by crystalk
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To: twntaipan
btt
5 posted on 01/03/2003 1:59:14 AM PST by twntaipan
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To: twntaipan
Ibrahim Hooper is a cancer on our body politic.
6 posted on 01/03/2003 5:31:03 AM PST by wideawake
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To: crystalk; BlueLancer
Amen!
8 posted on 01/04/2003 10:48:01 AM PST by CARepubGal
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To: twntaipan
Fun to see the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier quoted....well, sort of quoted....
9 posted on 01/05/2003 7:50:04 PM PST by xjcsa
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