What next in the battle of ideas and ideology?

There are two very good articles in The Times today by members of the Muslim faith. The first by the secretary of state for Culture Media and Sport Sajid Javid the other by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, they essentially make the same point that liberal democracies should be more vocal and less subservient towards radical Islam. Enunciating our beliefs more clearly, explicitly and trenchantly. We have been too weak kneed in our attitude. Ali says 'there is too much moral relativism across the board'. We should be more definite in what we believe and what is acceptable. The jihadists want world domination, nothing else is sufficient for them. The subjugation of women, female genital mutilation, the outlawing of homosexuals and a host of other changes. They would want to make the belief in other faiths forbidden. This is a whole catalogue social attitudes and mores that would turn the world as we know it, upside down.
Moreover the Islamic world generally has not experienced what we have in the west, namely the enlightenment of the 17th century. This placed rational empirical understanding of the world above that of belief and faith. Newtonian physics helped them see that the physical world was explicable by experimentation, this gave way to knowledge over mystery and irrationality.