Shirley- I see where you are trying to connect the dots, still asking or commanding followers to commit actual murder is a really big stretch. In my decades as a JW the Jehu story was used and I remember COs saying how we should hate other Religions and Apostates. But, we were never told to vandalize Churches or to physically harm a Df'd person, that is not discounting the mental and emotional harm done with their shunning policy. It was the teaching while I was in that we were not to participate in Armageddon, that it was the angels, 144,000 and Jesus duty to kill off humanity.
There are religious groups who directly instruct their members to harm those they consider enemies- certain factions within Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Those I consider a more present and direct threat to my freedoms and liberties.
For those who feel these articles are pushing JWs into a new and violent direction take the article and ask those you meet if they see it this way and what they would do if so directed by the current GB. You may find some who would take the final step of murder, religion has that crazy effect on people.
Without projections like this there are certainly enough factual and proven issues to engage any JW on without resorting to the Chicken Little, "the sky is falling", scenario.