We can wish we had better tools and more noble actors at hand in a crisis, but you are left evaluating the situation by material conditions, not ideals. If a peaceful secular solution to the problem was currently on the table I would fully support that against a reactionary religious group.

As it stands violence is the only tool available to solve the problem and the only groups prepared to organize a militant resistance are not secular Marxist leftists. When the open air prison is gone and conditions improve it might be easier to convince the starved out populace of the region to pursue other means to achieve change, but at the moment the jailers have been clear about how effective non violent resistance will be.