The thing is that Islam thrives on triumphalism. There can be no defeat as that is a defeat of Allah and Allah doesn't do that to himself. There is no strategic retreat in Islam
The right way is to invade Mecca and Medina and reduce them to the same state that they did to Ephesus, Constantinople, Alexandria..
79 posted on 07/03/2013 8:37:08 PM PDT by Cronos
(Latin presbuteros>Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)