1) What it means is that: if the Salafi is not willing to negotiate with the Sufi, then he is also misguided. Because guidance requires ilm, and ilm is achieved through education, and education can only be done when both parties are face-to-face. When only one party think he knows everything, then he is ignorant because he doesn't know what the other party has to say. And this applies to both sides. 2) I like to weigh both sides, and accordingly i like to scrutinize both sides. I wont "suck up" to Ansar Dine's portrait just as i wont suck up to the Western media's portrait of the situation. Most salafists however, are eager to eat up everything their favourite J!hadi group says, or whatever's the official line of Al-Fajr or GIMF. 4) Sure, people will always continue to "Respect the opinion of those in authority". They do it in pakistan, saudi, iran, and everywhere we have so-called "islamic states". We however, do J!had against them and their stooges, and this is because of their transgressions. 5) See all of the above.... And, we're not trying to scrutinize Islamic groups because we consider ourselves perfectionists, rather it is the perfectionists who scrutinize everyone else. We condemn the kuffar, but we also condemn the extremists; because from my experience, the extremists only force people to join the kuffar. Timbuktu is not Ansar Dine's playground. It is an ancient location which attracts scholars from all around the Muslim world. If they did not break these tombs, then why should Ansar? And if it is necessary to do so, then it cannot be done without consulting the scholars first. If you know that the Western media (even though AlJazreera isnt western) is defamatory, then why would they refrain from blaming the scholars who apparently supported this as well?