“I used to say that Islam is the scourge of civilized man,”
You give too much credit to use the word “civilized.’
Sooner or later, the jihadists are going to provoke a nuclear power with sufficient imagination to eliminate the source of the infection, a certain over-valued black rock.
The world will learn
Sooner or later
If Mohammed will pray
To a smoking crater.
Christians, imagine a billion or so people who suddenly have their religion discredited, and are looking for better answers. Can we be ready for the opportunity? Learning Arabic, Turkish, or Farsi is a long-lead-time project, so
now would be a good time to start! After all, the media once preached the certainty of global soviet-style communism.