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I respect your opinion, and love Israel, but also do not believe in salvation w/o Christ..

You wouldn't be a Christian if you didn't. Many if not most Christians have adopted the stance that they will attempt to share the "good news" with people and they have to make up their own minds. That they can share a world with other Christians, Buddhists, Jews and and even atheists. Islam doesn't play by these rules. It seeks to not share the world with any other faith and is ok with convert or die choices. Folks need to understand that some play by different rules.

Then you have to decide how you are going to respond. Go back to the evil of the past? Or go forward and understand that some teachings are better than others and use all of the skill talent and ability you have to share the message and the teaching that you understand to be correct in hopes that people might benefit from what you share. False converts are sometimes felt to be worse than folks who openly disagree and challenge you. This is why after forcing so many to convert or leave, the Spanish found themselves needing to determine if the folks that said they converted actually did. Evil begets evil. The horror of the Inquisition is legendary, but its cause was the attempt for purity by force.

Christians learned this. Islam precludes this learning deliberately. Islam is designed as a faith and political system with a single aim, conquest. This is not the first threat like this that we have faced. But, a persistent one. Like the Communists and Fascists, the inherent evil of the system is its weak point. So, this is the solution. This is why a funny fat boy of the wrong faith has the right idea, find our faith, find our honor and the guiding principles of our society and we will have all the answers we need.