Guys, the idea that they just won't stop won't hold water.
Charles Martel beat them at Tours. They had 700 years to come back north. They didn't. If you read the Arab histories of that period, you'll find that they considered the battle at Tours no more than a skirmish, engaging as it did only a very small part of the Muslim army. They could have come back any time and squashed Martel. They didn't. So how does that fit in with the idea that they only stop to lick their wounds and keep trying to kill all nonMuslims? It doesn't.
700 years is a bit more than a blink of the eye.
They stopped in the Balkans for about 500 years. Another pretty long blink, if you ask me.
I think that the theory that they won't stop coming against us doesn't stand up to analysis. After all, we (the West/Christian nations) haven't been engaged in continual conflict with them, have we? So if they won't stop coming, what have they been doing for the past 500 years?
Has anyone considered the possibility that by viewing Islam monolithically, you are committing the same error that they do when they view us in the same manner? Islam is not a homogenous whole, as the Sunni/Shia split should show. There are all sorts of currents and eddies in something so big as to encompass 1 billion people. We shouldn't learn more about that and exploit that to our advantage? We should just blunder on in like we did in Iraq? We didn't bother to learn about the tensions in that society and now we are paying the price. You all want to do that AGAIN? Didn't Iraq teach us anything?
I'd also like to have someone explain just how it is that we've decided that it was Islam that we were fighting during the Crusades and in the Balkans and in front of the gates of Vienna. From their point of view, if you read their histories, it wasn't Islam that we were fighting so much as it was a territorially expansionist Muslim who was not fighting to spread his religion but for the usual desire of land, treasure and power. So how did people get the idea that it was Islam specifically that was the problem after the initial expansion of the religion in its infancy? True, that was about spreading religion. But they stopped. For 300 years, they did not seek to expand into Europe. Sure, there was some localized stuff but no real all-out effort the way the initial push came. So what makes people decide that Islam was the problem and not just Islamic idiots wanting more "stuff"?
Lest you think this is an "out there" question, consider that Muslims view Israel as a Crusader state. They see a nonMuslim state, wrested from Muslim territory, which is hostile to them, just as the Crusader states were. They see us in the west as coming against THEM. The same sort of apocalyptic "it is us or them/gotta kill them all" rhetoric that is going on in this thread is exactly what some over there are thinking.
You two groups are going to wind up blowing up the world before you are done. Some of us would like to live in peace and not bequeath unending war to our children.
And did anyone stop to think just HOW we can kill 1 billion people from Morocco to Indonesia? It can't be done. There is no physical way to do it. Nuke 'em? We don't have nearly enough. Besides, if you didn't get all of them, all you do is ensure that for the rest of our lives, we'd be fighting terrorists from the Muslim world since they'd revenge themselves just like they are doing in Iraq. You want to make our nation live in fear like Israel does, of a car bomb or a suicide bomber? That's your gameplan?
Think it through, guys. We lose NOTHING by trying first to work with anyone and everyone who is willing to work with us. If we fail and have to start Armageddon, we've lost nothing but time. I'd kinda like to ensure that I stand before my maker with an answer to the question: did you do your best to avoid killing as many of my children as you could? And yes, that means that I consider Muslims to be children of God as much as I do Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Shintoists, pagans, agnostics and atheists. I might have to kill to defend myself, but I want to know that I did everything I could to ensure that to avoid that. I won't lay down and die for anyone but I also won't run with a smile to go kill anyone, either.
I think there seems to be a lot of people who look forward to the prospect of killing Muslims, though.