Thanks. I’m pretty immersed in this subject, while writing my next novel which features a return to a new corsair era, with weakened Europeans unable to sustain a sea patrol presence. From Morocco to Ireland is just 1,200 miles due north. In the 1600s not only were sailors grabbed at sea for slavery, but the corsairs made land raids and carried off thousands, as far north as the British Isles and even Iceland. Vast regions of southern Italy and Spain were subject to slave raids for centuries. When the power equation tilts their way, they take advantage. Anyway, that’s sort of the background of my next novel.
So all of this talk of “reforming” Islam makes me put in my 2 cents. Islam is unreformable because the Koran is a handbook for homicidal maniacs in any century.
I’m of the opinion that a crucial element of the pacification/rehabilitation of Japan after the war was the admission by the Emperor that he was just a person, not a god.
Proper subjugation of Islam, as you have alluded periodically, requires (among other things) that Mecca and Medina be “nuked until they glow in the daylight”, to demonstrate that “Allah” has no power over the infidels.