John McLachlan, that one woman lost her religion and so she’s proof to you that it can happen, but most immigrants will keep their religion no matter how successfully debated. You can win the debate up and down all around and throughout and still not cause the bulk of immigrants to lose the religion. Period. It’s just that dense and thick. You’re calling on immigrants to remake their entire histories, their family histories, their entire sense of selves — a complete personality make-over, and that’s just not going to happen no matter how well you debate. With Islam comes Sharia, the two are linked inexorably.
Debates work well for scoring debating points but do little to nothing in persuading entire populations to change their mind sets, their senses of being, notwithstanding that one woman nor the few other notables.
I know of no one who believes Islam or any other totalitarian ideology can be defeated by military means alone. I’ve never heard or ever read that proposed, except by way of projection. I don’t know where you get that, other than the straw-man factory.
Debate is good, yes, but immigration control is even better and adherence to our own laws and constitution is even better. Islam generally appears impervious to argumentation and indifferent to human rights as the West understands it.
