Like MLK or not, he proved how effective civil disobedience can be against a tyrannical government. This crisis demands some acts of mass, nonviolent civil disobedience against the Mahdi’s tyranny.
Nonviolent rebellion works with a Christian culture. It isn’t successful against an antichristian culture. They merely perceive it as weakness and like pearls before swine will likely become enraged to commit atrocities with impunity.