They need support.
The quiet kind, not the cheerleader kind.
They need people to show respect, not for the radicals, but for the millions of people just trying to live their lives, raise their children and worship in their own way.
It's hard to come out against a bunch of raving lunatics when you have something to lose. Not everyone is Salman Rushdie, who gets police protection for daring to stray from the approved fundamentalist line. It takes courage for people who are not celebrities to defy crazy armed people who may know someone in their neighborhood.