re: I have zero respect for anyone who is a Muslim and doesn't stand up to this BS

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I worry about when the will of the people demand a less judicious response.

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Well if it happens, then the Islamists will have won, and the ideology won't be eradicated for a while. It's like poking a bear to see if it will attack you, and then using that reaction to justify poking it in the first place. The asymmetry is the one advantage the Islamists have, as well as a disenfranchised underclass of Sunni Muslims who have believed in, and been failed by, ideologies like Arab nationalism, communism, socialism, Ba'athism, and others before.

The attack on Islamists has to be multifaceted. A public overreaction could have devastating consequences, namely that it will enshrine Islamism as the protector of Muslims everywhere.