I agree with Undercover too!!
Remember when we were once Jehovah's Witnesses!! This is persecution in their eyes!! We are the enemy and they are sadden because they sacrifice so much to be so good and loving... shunning is not a choice to them! It is law in their eyes... that GOD commanded them to do... like Abraham sacrificing his son... They aren't killing people just displaying loyalty and supporting discipline for wrong doing.
The educational part is so so important right now!! Not showing hate toward them but showing consern... Supporting members of the churches who suffer... family members etc... In effect we can ask and compare leaders... like who is behide all of this? God... but God is loving kind... what motivated people to follow Hitler, to follow any Cult leader that claim to have God's backing.... Just get them thinking...
We need to show and act not as "apostates" but "helpers" "God's angels" as it were... Jehovah's witnesses are attracted to kind hearted spiritual people... I should no I only hung out with other church goers at school... even if I thought they didn't have the "truth" they were good people and I surrounded myself around people like them.