[RightWhale]

it cannot be done without a bloodbath

Or even with, apparently. That has been tried often enough.

[GSlob]

Well, there are some isolated reports of successful transculturations, like, say, Islamization of Iraq by al-Hajjaj(sp?) around 7th century AD. The butchery associated with his name is still remembered. But then again, he did not have to transculturate among major language barriers, only across religious ones.