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Islam is a definite threat to freedom, the world over. As we fight for "freedom" we are fighting for the right to practise Christianity.
Can we fight to establish Christianity? I think we both agree that's not the way it works. I wish it were that simple, but it isn't. And...that's what makes Christianity different from Islam.

As we fight for "freedom" we are fighting for the right to practise Christianity. Can we fight to establish Christianity? I think we both agree that's not the way it works. I wish it were that simple, but it isn't. And...that's what makes Christianity different from Islam.

Certainly I agree that we can't fight to establish Christianity. However, there's nothing wrong with fighting to establish freedom. Once an area is free, we can move in and carry out the great commission.

That isn't to say that Christianity can only take hold if we first make them free, but when nonbelievers are threatened with their life for not supporting Islam, it makes the task much harder. Nothing is impossible for God. Nothing would thrill me more than to see massive conversions without first having war to establish freedom. However, I support war for freedom and then conversion if necessary. It appears to be necessary at the moment.

I think you have to insist that these Muslim countries allow for freedom of religion or at least tolerance in order for Christianity to spread. Christians have been persecuted in Turkey for hundreds of years -- when it wasn't by the state, it was done by Muslim clerics and mobs.