So much of what I see at the Washington Times seems wrongheaded. All the more reason to blog a great article when I see it. Credit where credit is due. Many of the people worried about the effect American Christian missionaries will have in Iraq are Iraqi Christians.

BAGHDAD - Missionaries from the United States, determined to spread evangelical Christianity in Iraq, are opening new churches in Baghdad, building congregations drawn from Iraq's ethnic Christian community and in some cases preparing to take the Gospel directly to Muslims themselves.
The campaign makes sense in the United States, where Christian denominations and other religions compete for adherents in a free market of ideas.
But for Iraqi Christians — made up of Assyrians, Chaldeans and a smattering of smaller Catholic and Orthodox denominations, plus some Protestant churches dating back to colonial times — the presence of American evangelists is both unsettling and possibly dangerous.
Iraq's 25 million people are overwhelmingly Muslim and, in Islam, conversion to another religion is forbidden. The penalty is death.
"In America, people are free to be either Christian or Muslim. Here, the family applies Muslim law, and if someone in the family leaves Islam, the family will slaughter them. In America people are free, but here they are not free," said the Rev. Ikram Mehanni, senior pastor of a Presbyterian church in Baghdad.