Baroody, like Malik, was a Lebanese Christian. In opposing the right to change one's religion, he never referred to Islamic law, but instead framed this new right as a right for missionaries. Proselytising Christians had historically become the vanguards of political interventions, he argued, and 'peoples had been drawn into murderous conflict by the missionaries' efforts to convert them'. Baroody depicted Article 18 as a right to open up non-Western societies for trade and exploitation. Such concerns resonated with Chang, who responded: 'For the countries of the Far East, the nineteenth century, with its expansion of Western industrialism, had not always been very kind', and missionaries had not always limited themselves to their religious missions.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 133