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Although I would love to see it happening, I am afraid that this may be an impossible thing to do. Please remember that the Middle East was vastly Christian before Islam came in the seventh century and converted the vast majority of people to Islam by the power of the sword.

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Yes, and it was fairly vigorous for the next seven to eight hundred years, pushing into what is now southern France and threatening Eastern Europe several times, reaching as far as Vienna. But then it's power waned, last Muslim rulers were cast out of Spain in 1490's, Ottoman Turkish rule disintegrated at end of WWI. They ran out of dhimmis to exploit, and couldn't get their economies moving without a constant flow of fresh infidels to extort and militarily weak neighbors to plunder.

The current terrorist programs are a desperate, and ulimately futile, effort to go back to the 14th century when Islam was still riding high. Though it's still dangerous and difficult, opportunities for evangelism will continue to grow as this futility becomes evident to more and more of these people.