Even loyal newspapers urged leniency toward devotion regardless of its doctrines

Evidence

Two years into the brothers’ legal ordeal, even newspapers that supported the government’s legal position were calling for greater leniency, arguing that, ‘There must be generosity where there is such enthusiasm and devotion even to mad and devastating principles.’ — Julia Stephens, The Phantom Wahhabi, 150

Categorization

• CANDY: A startling line — concede the cause is mad and devastating, and still counsel generosity toward the people who believe it.