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To: KLP who wrote (94067)	4/16/2003 10:52:54 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm sorry, John. Don't really understand what you meant here? The ME as innocents? Or the Grahams as innocents? My apologies, Karen, I should have made myself a bit clearer. I simply meant that prior to 9-11 missionary work by groups like Graham's group in the ME might have been viewed by the locals as the work of innocents. Folk who had no agenda other than their religious views, who did good deeds such as ran hospitals and fed some folk, and who had, from the viewpoint of Muslims, had a rather odd religious cut on the world. But not threatening. Much like we get Mormons are 7th Day Adventists knocking on our doors to offer us bibles or invite us to services. But after 9-11, I suspect that perception has changed, at least for large numbers in the ME. To be overtly religiously Christian, to be attempting to convert others, and to be from the US would seem to be a formula to be taken as an agent of something more disturbing, much more threatening. I don't really know the contents of that. Just suspect it to be so. I asked if you or anyone really knew if there was an American group going to Iraq in the near future, or later this year, or to the ME??? And if so, who would be included? I have no idea who, though if Graham is considering it, then, no doubt, others are.