The way to defeat ISIS is to not only take away their guns but also their beliefs.
And you still deny that Liberalism is a religion. What you're proposing here is the old-time missionary model of conversion - take away the beliefs of the savages and turn them into good, god-fearin', church goin' people but now you want to impose your liberal religion onto them.
Take away their beliefs. For Pete's sake. People in the West hate you liberals for this very mindset and you're a good part of the reason that the non-West hates the West so much, with your efforts to impose love of homosexuals onto cultures that condemn homosexuality. Those people think it's the West, as a whole, that is pushing this "conversion" on them, not just religious liberals.
And you do that by providing the oppressed with the power to express their own voices and alternative beliefs. You empower the oppressed by making them aware that they are not alone but are actually the majority. They have a right to be free of oppression and intimidation
More faith-based wishful thinking. It's a tenet of faith with liberals that people will flock to their religion if only given a choice.
What you propose entails an actual war against Islam and that's one Rubicon that people don't want to cross. Secondly, substituting the religion of Liberalism isn't much of an improvement over the religion of Islam. Certainly not worth fighting a religious war against Islam to bring about.
The quickest and easiest way to make that happen is to provide them with access to the internet and to use that as the means to show how other Muslims are living in peace and prosperity without oppression and intimidation.
You are so deep in your religious bubble, it's sad to behold. They have the internet in the Middle East. They see what life in the West is like. They're repulsed by much of what they see. Do you comprehend that? They don't want it. They actually fight against it. They see the oppression and intimidation that the Religion of Liberalism imposes on people. They see the CEO of Mozilla driven from his job because he has the normal view that only a man and a woman qualify to be married. They see what is taking place here in the West and they don't want to follow that path.
Yes, they have their own culture and that is not going to change but they are just as human as we are and motivated by the same desires for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Another article of faith contradicted by evidence. You're just as bad as a religious creationist. What happened when these people could exercise their liberty via voting? They elected Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to power to make them even more Islamic in governance. How do they measure happiness? By opening gay bars? No, by strengthening their adherence to Islamic values. Their desire for life is expressed by having large families and outlawing abortion. They have the world's highest rate of intact families where children are raised by 2 parents. They look at the growth of single parent families in the West and they are horrified. They don't see this as liberty or happiness.
The solution here is to beat the concept of oppression with the ideas of liberty, freedom and the rights of all mankind. You cannot kill an idea, good or bad, but when the children of the Middle East learn of the good ideas of freedom and liberty they will want them just as we do rather than the bad ideas of oppression.
As with all faiths, of course you believe that yours is the best choice. What you fail to understand is that Islam offers an alternative vision of how to construct a society. It's not just a religion which deals with the spiritual, it's a religious parallel to Liberalism in that is covers law and governance as well as the spiritual. They reject what they see in the West, how the religion of Liberalism has affected the West. They believe that they have a better way forward, forward by appealing to the past.
Your idea of launching a religious war and forcibly converting people to your religion is nonsensical.
