Excellent and thoughtful post. In 1945, Douglas MacArthur requested 10,000 Christian missionaries for Japan. People whose bushido/shinto faith had been shaken were open to alternatives. What he got was the emissaries of materialism, such as Edwards Deming, whose name is upon that nation's most prestigious industrial award (the Deming Prize for quality manufacturing).
I grew up under the shadow of The Bomb, in a culture whose leaders had already conceded the war, and were doing their best to cut secret deals with the anticipated winners (See Whitaker Chambers' excellent book Witness). Then, suddenly, almost overnight, the Red Menace has evaporated. This time, we were a little better prepared. I got to go on a missions tourism trip in 1992, and met warm and friendly people who were looking for a new way to structure their lives. The church I now attend immediately sent out folks to plant churches in Ukraine, Poland, and Austria.
Will we be ready when Islam is discredited, and a billion of our fellow men and women are looking for new and better answers? I know at least one guy in our church who is studying Turkish ...
Thank you for the encouragement. If anyone wants to start a new thread with the "6 steps" it is fine with me. I'm not the type of person to post threads with my own material.
If any of you do, be sure to credit Ali Sina from faithfreedom.org for most of #4 "Iran". I forgot to do that when I posted it originally.
I highly recommend Ali Sina site by the way. I visit it often. If you haven't visited it, make it a point to do so, it is a real eye opener. One of you also mentioned that Sina spoke about the Golden Rule. I did read that debate as I read most of them. His debate solidified in me what I already knew to be true, it's logic is undeniable. Great stuff.