Love is not defined as looking the other way when it comes to evil.
Start with Revelation 2:6 to get things moving back into context.
Reading this thread has greatly strengthened my Christian faith. Jesus is Lord!
God calls some people to minister to gang members, to prisoners, to people of other nations who do not know him.
“Go into the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
We have the right and sometimes the duty to risk our own lives, but not the right and the duty to risk the lives of our family and our neighbors in a holy mission. The men you mentioned knew that visiting the tribe was very dangerous and left their families in safety.
I pray for the Muslims, that the victims of war be protected, and that they all may know God through his Son Jesus. But James writes you can’t just pray for someone and not do anything. And that would be where prudence in world leaders comes in, to protect the victims, and protect the people of their own nations, to whom they have the primary duty.
It’s hatred for a violent and evil ideology, incapable of peacefully coexisting with any other ideology.
The love that God commands is unconditional. It has no exceptions what so ever.