Hi, I’m fairly new to the site and have been following this conversation for a while. I felt compelled to create a membership and add my 2 cents, since I have some first-hand knowledge that might be helpful. A close relative of mine unfortunately got hooked up to NK, and b”h left after they turned more extreme. I know the NK ideology very well. NK sincerely believes not only that they are doing what Hashem wants, but that they’re actually “saving” Jews, including Jewish Zionists. They gain chizuk from the countless emails and posts to their website from people named Muhammed and Ali, claiming that they were intending to blow themselves up and now that they see that there are Jews out there supporting them they won’t do it, in order to prevent the killing of anti-Zionists in the processs.
What NK fails to understand, and what our argument to them must be, is that while they might have convinced a minimal amount of wannabe terrorists on one hand, they do not decrease terror attacks in general, and probably only increase them. Hamas and the PA still have plenty of members who either ignore NK or are just emboldened by them, using NK to prove that they’re killing for a worthy cause.
And the main problem is, NK currently does not have the backing of a single Torah authority to my knowledge. They’re must be a reason why all the rabbanim, including talmidim muvhakim of the Satmar Rebbe ZT”L, do not support them. Even if they would actually reduce terrorism (which has so far only escalated after their cozy meetings with the rasha in Iran), they would definitely need daas torah to justify the highly questionable means towards that end.