“Anything other than a change of heart will not improve our situation.”
There hearts have been singularly unreceptive to change in 1500. St. Francis of Assisi tried it and was unsuccessful.
They should be given three choices:
Conversion
Expulsion
Or the sword.
The EXACT choices they have given all other people REGARDLESS of religion in “their” countries (all stolen from OTHER people of faith over the ages.)
If we had treated Islam by its own rules that it uses for other peoples/nations since the beginning, there would be a cross on the top of every mosque.