Washington D.C., July 16, 2019--Pascale Warda and I took a break between sessions of the Conference on Religious Freedom to which we'd been invited by the US State Department. 

It has been seven years since we last met. She has since been shot several times, seen her bodyguards killed, been a minister, lost her position, witnessed the rise and fall of Sunni al-Qaeda and Shiite mehdi militia, and most recently the Sunni terrorist organization ISIS' war crimes and crimes against humanity.