being discreet is the better part of valor.
having been able to watch the twin towers burn and collaps from their windows at columbia heights and the stream of panicky refugees coming across the brooklyn bridge toward them, taught them the clear lesson, that no,
Babylon the great HAS NOT FALLEN, never did, but
the leaning tower of bragging brooklyn might break, crack and fall too, if they are not carefull. (both Nazi and Commie orgs collapsed with a little help from the outside)
It might turn out that BtG spells more like BaGhdad then Rome at least geographicly and in fervor for sure. (major possibilty.)
Consider too the similarity between WT BtS policies and Muselman doctrine (as applied by the local Iman/Elders:
converting to another faith carries the death/ disfellowshipping sentence. prosetylizing among muslem,jws carries the death/ disfellowshipping/expulsion/banning sentence.
publishing critizising, carricaturizing material carries the death sentence/shunning sentence (any wt rushties here?) so:
Brooklyn does not want to swallow its' own medicine.