VEILED FREEDOM

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. With the best of intentions, can outsiders ever truly purchase freedom for another culture or people?

2. Relief worker Amy Mallory is dismayed to discover that Afghanistan's new democracy exists within the framework of Islamic sharia law? What practical differences for daily life does such a distinction create?

3. What is your personal definition of democracy? Simply holding elections? Or would you include basic rights like freedom of speech, worship, self-determination? Are such freedoms a cultural issue or a universal human birthright?

3. Special Forces veteran Steve Wilson asks himself: "What could motivate any person to enough passion they’d blow themselves up along with total strangers? More urgently, what could motivate such passion to change its mind?" By the end of Veiled Freedom, to what conclusion has Steve come?

4. "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." These words of Isa Masih (Jesus Christ) grip Jamil's heart. How do they change the course of his life?

5. After the New Hope explosion, Amy feels she's wasting her time staying in Kabul, where she's restricted from making any real difference beyond showing her love to the Afghan women and children who are her charges. Then she asks herself: 'Still, is love alone really such a small difference to make? How many people had not died today because of the difference love had made in one heart?' What does Amy mean by this?

6. Based on Veiled Freedom, what is the only true path to freedom for a nation--or an individual human heart?