I welcome this moderate Christian voice in the debate, but I have sadly to report from personal contact that some of the Filipino guest workers in Saudi, most often men, also nominally convert to Islam to insure their well-paying positions and revert to Catholicism when they get home.

Wow!  Thanks Kendall for this enlightrning post.  Imagine having success at bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to Muslins in Southeast Asia!  To hear that the gospel found receptive ears there is good news indeed.  NW Bob spent a total of 13 years living in a very restrictive Middle East country.  Even there people had many different views on how their faith should be practiced.  One native of this country came to my office and apollogized to me after 9/11.  He said this was not Islam to him or his friends.

I realize there is good reason to stay ever vigilent against virulent Islam.  Indeed, not every one in my host country was favorably disposed toward Chritians in general or Americans in particular.  But there is hope even here in the saving power of Jesus.  Thanks be to God for Christian missionaries who risk their live to witness in Muslim countries.
IHSV,
NW Bob

Wonderful article by the Rev. Fox!  His comments about how Jesus Christ appeals so clearly are well supported by those I know who have been in similar situations.
As to concerns about “virulent islam”, above, my understanding became clearer whe I read “Shariah: The Threat to America” from the Security Policy Institute.  I appreciate the efforts by Rev. Fox and his allies after reading the Report. 
That Report can be found at http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/article pdfs/Shariah - The Threat to America (Team B Report) 09142010.pdf
Wort reading, even if only the Introduction.

Anastasios:  I doubt that I have a “moderate Christian voice”.  Rather I have had the unique privilege to meet many brothers and sisters from around the world and to see the wonderful work of God from a different perspective than is most often reported. 

Psalm 46:10 is well known: be still and know that I am God.  What is all too often missed is that God tells the psalmist to be still in the face of desolation and wars, and to see God bring salvation and deliverance into the midst of that chaos.  As I see it, we live in a generation of chaos, war and desolation.  Yet God is working even now to bring about salvation and deliverance to peoples around the world.  Our privilege is to “be still” and see the hand of God at work—then we shall be reminded that He is God!

Thus rather than a modest voice, I pray that God gives me eyes to see and the confidence to speak boldly what He is doing.  We need to know that He is God—and having faith in Him, put aside the fears and anxieties which the accuser so much wants to stir up.  Blessings and peace.