Is there trouble with Evangelicals in Iraq?

According to this Reuters report there is. Wired Catholic has the link

Here's the money quote:

Saying the evangelicals were not real missionaries, Delly said they attracted poor youths with displays of money and taking them "out riding in cars to have fun".

"Then they take photos and send them here, to Germany, to the United States and say 'look how many Muslims have become Christian'," he said.

The patriarch declined to say if the missionaries were a challenge for his church or if U.S. authorities supported them.

If these people behaved the way Archbishop Delly described, they have a serious credibility problem. How could any Christian justify this kind of behavior? More to the point, what kind of mission could this prove to be? If they serious evangelicals, surely they understand that a photo op of poor muslim kids cruisin downtown does not a conversion to Christ make.

That's why I'm suspicious of this particular story.

Consider another excerpt:

"There may be between 100 and 200 there now," said Todd Johnson, an expert on world Christianity at the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Seminary near Boston, Massachusetts.

"They're mostly aid workers, I don't think there is much regular evangelising," he told Reuters.

The whole thing doesn't make sense. However, a google search of the patriarch demonstrates that he's a true Shepard to the Chaldean Catholics of Iraq. He's a man of great integrity. Consider his statement here:

When asked if it is still possible for Christians and Muslims to live together in Iraq, the Patriarch's response is unequivocal: “ We are a single Iraqi family, made up of Christians and Muslims; we are brothers and sisters and must respect each other and live peacefully side by side in a free and safe Iraq".

If what he's saying is true, and not just the spin of A MSM outlet with an axe to grind, then all I can say is WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?