abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass

Therefore, we can say that he wants:
(1) To shorten the duration of the battle as much as possible.
(2) To keep his troops from bloodshed as much as possible because he knows that this will
scare his troops and it will be one of the factors in prolonging the battle.
Therefore, the enemy puts a vile plan in place for achieving these two goals. This plan is
that he will avoid bloodshed as much as possible; rather, he will work to imprison a large
number of youth and paint the picture that those who do not resist under pressure will not
be fired upon. In reality, he does not hope that the matter comes to that. In the first period
of the stage of imprisoning, as long as there continues to be a large number of people
outside (of prison), he applies a modest amount of pressure within most of the prisons,
except on a few of the brothers that he intends to put pressure on. Then when he gathers
the largest amount of brothers in the prisons, he begins to pressure all of the brothers within
the prisons and their kin outside the prisons. He begins to make the prisons a hell, resorts to
almost prohibiting visits, works to monitor the support and assistance which reaches their
kin, and the picture becomes bleak. Thus, the people begin to prohibit their kin from
joining the mujahids or assisting them on account of the many examples they see. The
condition of the mujahids begins to decline, to say nothing of the Taghut who begins in this
stage to change his strategy from one of minimizing bloodshed and multiplying arrests to a
strategy of termination and extermination after everyone has been prepared for it through
the media. He undertakes operations of killing during police raids and here the situation
approaches its end and the patience of the mujahids begins to be exhausted—God forbid!—
after the situation began to exhaust the patience of those youths who were in prison.