I would flesh out my suggestion of demanding surrender and if surrender is refused, the sending out of non-combattants (by multiple media: radio, leaflet, loudspeaker on drone aircraft) before devastating an objective (fuel-air weapons would suffice, but nuclear weapons have more terror effect). Those who surrender should be well-fed, have their medical problems attended to, and be treated with great kindness. Mentioned previously on this thread has been the suggestion of destroying their idol shrines. I have an idea. How about just irradiating TM</font size> the hell out of a couple of their shrines with some nuclear material, for example that black meteorite thing that they are supposed to kiss. In the first place, what kind of god is allah that he cannot protect his 'holy' places. Second, only those would be killed who obeyed the idolatrous command to worship the stone, thus presumably minimizing the loss of innocent life. What would your bishop think of that?
Cordially,
I do not think killing Muslims for venerating their block of stone would be to the point. As an Eastern Christian I fully understand the distinction between veneration and worship. The Muslims also know the distinction. Indeed Mohammed copied the features he liked of historic Christianity--prostration as a normative form of worship, women veiling their heads,...--before adding the evil features of his demonic doctrine. Beyond his lust for power (and women) an offense at God in Christ not conforming to his (Mohammed's) conception of trancendence seems to have been the "prophet's" primary motivation. Who can say which came first? Perhaps genuine piety toward his own conception of God lead the wretched man astray, and made him prey to all manner of earthly lusts. Perhaps his lusts stopped his ears to the Gospel and he made up his doctrine based on a shrewd assessment of how to manipulate man's fallen nature. The wife he took in Egypt was a Christian, so it is not as if he didn't have a chance to learn the Gospel.
Thus Islam is antichrist, in the sense the word is used in St. John the Theologian's epistles, it represents a deliberate rejection of Christ. However, the poor wretch who grew up surrounded by this demonic doctrine never having heard the Gospel (the corrupted edited version the Muslims accept doesn't count) is still an innocent when he goes on the Haj. Killing him is to no point, evangelizing him would be to the point.