I am now back home safe and sound, but not without a little suffering along the way—that included a weather-related missed flight connection in Dubai that added another 26 hours to our 24-hour travel itinerary. That suffering also included a cramped economy-class seat for 15 & 1/2 hours...the time it takes to fly from from Dubai to Newark. I knew we were in trouble when I boarded that plane and a flight attendant greeted me with a devilish smile and slowly said, “Hell! Oh!” (At least, that is what it sounded like.)

In the early morning of August 16 of last year, hundreds of Muslim extremists descended on five or six Christian neighborhoods in the Pakistan town of Jaranwala. It was an attack that had been planned for weeks in advance, justified on the basis of a false accusation of "blasphemy." Two Jaranwala Christians were accused of burning a copy of the Quran.