But sedition is worse.” So what is sedition? And this is how the system justifies itself: if they can frame dissent as a moral disease and being “against God”, then violence becomes the treatment. Most Muslims will tell you that the verses in the Koran about sedition are historical and contextual, tied to war. And most Muslims will tell you those are not blanket permissions to kill protesters. But apparently true “Islamists” strip away the context and seek to make killing protesters sound righteous.