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And utterly isolated, except possibly through social media.
There are more that want them killed, but by the law. As opposed to being empowered to do the executions themselves or by their gangs. (Unless we want to just call the state and federal governments "gangs".)
Xians have a nice cover for not enforcing anything that they or their leaders don't want that even the most profoundly dull can ken. For Muslims, it takes a bit more sophistry to get there--the mechanism is the same ("later revelation supersedes earlier revelation"
, but showing what's later and earlier and why supersession is required in each case is tougher. At no point can you point and say Muhammed said his kingdom isn't of this world, or that he died to liberate us from the earlier bits (which is where all most of the "kill the kafir!" is).
Then, of course, you do have to deal with the later bits. The moderation texts alway presuppose domination. So you don't kill X, as long as they don't get uppity and continue to pay their infidel poll tax, or if they leave in peace with you across a border. Of course, this leaves unaddressed the question, What happens if they don't pay the poll tax and do get uppity? Or if they're not living in peace with your natio, ummatuka? Note the rhetoric used by the jihadists in this regard. The moderation texts' majority interpretation today presupposes good will and tolerance and a predisposition not to fight, not to feel the humiliation. But if you're already feeling humiliated, it's easy to displace that humilation to somebody else--in US poltics we do it all the time. (Just look at the Confederate statue issue, school names issue, etc. If not for an underlying sense of being wronged, few would seek out to destroy 100 or 150 year old symbols. They're secondary: current status and economics count for more, but movement on those fronts is largely stalled.)
The Israelite theocracy's take was clear: You fight them in YHWH's name. Mostly the Israelite theocracy is taken as dead and not (yet?) restored. The Xian "theocracy's" take is clear, as well: When persecuted, turn the other cheek; pray for the kingdom to come. (Of course, some are convinced that the kingdom has come and they are the weapon of god; oy.). And some have culturally appropriated the 1970s reconstructionist movement and made it from a grass-roots kind of thing to a top-down imposed new world order. And, yeah, think of that as being a kind of erlebte Rede.)
Michael Gove makes John Ashcroft look like John Marshall. Gee, I wonder who leaked this unpublished report. The math in the leak does not even support the headline.
