While we can’t flood Afghanistan with missionaries we can at least do a better job of setting our own cultural house in order. Recently I’ve had some dealings with Copts, secret Arab Christians, etc and have seen the effect of their ideas affect Australian policy leading some politicians to take on the bureaucratic mafias which actually bias the immigrant intake against Arab Christians and for Muslims.

There’s quite enough to do in the West in these matters. Personally I’m convinced that unless we come to ourselves it will be quite useless to proseletyze abroad. The harsh reality is that the Christian missionary flow today goes from the Third World to the West rather than the other way. So in any case missionaries to Islamic countries are probably going to come from the Third World as well.

It’s amazing to think there are secret missionaries among the million Filipinos working in Saudi Arabia. And it’s the 21st century. But it’s true. The entire subject of the secret church in Islamic countries is a verboten subject to the Western intelligensia; but one day it will be accounted one of the most shameful and dishonest intellectual episodes of recent times. Betrayal begins at home.