missionaries: real cause of 9/11?

a few short quotes:

...conservative evangelicals abroad can shape the perception of the West.

...a handful of evangelicals can misrepresent what the West is about and make Muslims feel very much under threat.

...missionaries who work what some people would call creative access, and this is Northern Sudan, as well, which means going into a country under other guises, right, as either maybe you're running a clinic, maybe you're running a fabric store, maybe you're teaching English.

...he had led a massacre on the island of Sulawesi, where Christians and Muslims had been fighting, among other things, over a local election, and their real grudge against each other was the cacao boom, money coming from the spiking prices of chocolate around the world.

& a longer one:

Yelwa has been the site of some of the bloodiest massacres between both Christians and Muslims of the past decade. In fact, some of the bloodiest happened around September 1, 2001, and because of the timing with 9/11, what would probably have been picked up by the foreign press just got lost.

Thousands killed eventually. Again, with the trouble with numbers, it's hard to know. In one case, Christians surrounding the town, encircling the town these are all reprisal attacks. So they begin in, you know, one begins the other counterattacks, Christians surrounding the town and killing every Muslim they found within the town.

On another attack, the church that you mentioned, this church which is in Yelwa was also surrounded, and Muslims surrounded the church and massacred everybody coming outside after morning devotions.

So the history of bloodshed is very, very deep, very, very painful, and both sides have mass graves very close to places of worship that are hard to believe when you see the numbers, you know, 100 men in this hole, 200 children in this hole. It's painful, and it's visceral, and it's a daily reality.

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