You're not only moving the goalposts, you're changing the sport in mid-play.
Put down the Calvinball and back away from the keyboard.
The score is still Q to 12.
But James asserts he's right no matter what... like Dawkins and Hitchens like to do when faced with a question they can't answer. James may next argue that anyone who doesn't agree with him must be stupid or insane or have something wrong with them, or some original tactic and thoughtful response like that.
The point was that the Chinese were keeping Muslims at bay for aeons, sport or no sport. If it wasn’t Christianity that kept Islam at bay in that instance, then the point made by the poster I first responded to, remains nullified.