Maybe I didn't express this well, but this is not about a tit-for-tat, they criticize our scholars, we criticize theirs.

This sect that Ibn Abidin compares to the khawarij are the *source* of the majority of the sectarianism dividing the Ummah today. And it is urgent to silence them. The urgency was put on full display immediately after Oct 7th when they told the Ummah not to support the Palestinian because they are "grave worshipping Rawafid lovers." It's on full display now when, instead of fighting Zionist Jews, they've launched an inquisition on the aqida soundness of ulama and laymen alike.

So no, sitting back and letting them wreak havoc will not decrease sectarianism. Quite the opposite.