"Although the example of people leaving Islam is small, as Ibn Warraq mentions, it still shows it happens"
Yep. You do know Ibn Warraq isn't his real name, right? ;)
There's a reason for that. Despite this, there is a not small number that are converting. Just quietly. What I don't get is why we not only don't take issue with the continued oppression of the few remaining Christians and Jews living in the Muslim world, but actually approved a constitution for Afghanistan that enshrined Sharia law! Why does the West say little (beyond groups like the Barnabas Fund) about that oppression, rape, and murder?
"Opposing the totalitarianism you refer to in any arena America has access to should aggressively maintained"
Absolutely. I'll go a step further. No more mosques to be built in the United States until a church exists in Mecca.
Yes I do. I have worked online with a few other authors who use pen names, simply because of personal security concerns. Not unjustified! Most have been threatened by Muslim "activists."
"...Why does the West say little (beyond groups like the Barnabas Fund) about that oppression, rape, and murder? ... Absolutely. I'll go a step further. No more mosques to be built in the United States until a church exists in Mecca."
Crippling political correctness and liberal multi-culturalism. Have you read Who Are We : The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington? I feel it has been the definitive contemporary work detailing the destructive influence on American culture by multi-culturalists and modern day liberals.
But until their influence is countered in American culture, we will all continue to be vulnerable ... and Islam will continue to feed off that vacillation and weakness.