{"id":8155,"date":"2015-11-15T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2015-11-15T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T21:02:23","slug":"paris-wahabis-salafi-homeopathy-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/paris-wahabis-salafi-homeopathy-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris, Wahabis, Salafi, Homeopathy, Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since 2001 our policy for fighting Islamic terrorists has been<\/a>, (Facebook) to put it politely, missing the elephant in the room, sort of like treating symptoms and completely missing the disease. Policymakers and slow-thinking bureaucrats stupidly let terrorism grow by ignoring the roots. We lost a generation: someone who went to grammar school in Saudi Arabia (our “ally”) after September 11 is now an adult, indocrinated into believing and supporting Salafi violence, hence encouraged to finance it –while we got distracted by the use of complicated weapons and machinery.
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\nEven worse the Wahabis have accelerated their brainwashing of East and West Asians with their madrassas, thanks to high oil revenues.
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\nSo instead of invading Iraq, blowing up Jihadi John and individual terrorists, thus causing a multiplication of these people, it would have been be easier to focus on the source of all problems: the Wahabi\/Salafi education and promotion of intolerance by which a Shiite or a Yazidi or a Christian are deviant people.
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\nIf we absolutely need to put people in Guantanamo, it is the Salafi preachers, Wahabi clerics, not just the people swayed by their teaching. And if we need to correct Saudi problems, we need to start by sending to them OUR preachers, educating them into tolerance, explaining the very concept of the separation of church and state. Or, better even, encourage Muslim preachers who promote religious tolerance (laka dinak wa li dini) — instead of seeing them ostracized.
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\nAnd if you find violence unavoidable, it should be directed at the Saudi and Qatari funders of violence, as well as the Salafi theorists, rather than the young performers.
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\nPS Beware the usual ISIS crypto-sympathizer who sort of “explains” (that is, justifies) what happened (intentionally killing civilians) with some other Western event that can go all the way to the crusades… Otherwise it is “biased”. You cannot condemn ISIS without at the same time trying to be “balanced”? Who are they fooling? This is the technique of bundling problems that can be treated independently and you need to learn to deal with them by forcing them to discuss the problem of ISIS on its own.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/\u2026\/saudi-arabias-curriculum-intoler\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance | Freedom House<\/a><\/div>\n
Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom released a report analyzing a set of Saudi Ministry of Education textbooks in use during the current academic year in Islamic studies courses for elementary and secondary students. The textbooks promote an ideology of hatred toward people, including Musli\u2026<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Delenda est Salafi-stan<\/a>. (Facebook)<\/p>\n

(Background: Cato the ancient, for years, kept starting or ending his speeches at the Roman Senate with variations around “Delenda est Cartago”, *Carthage must be destroyed*. Until the Roman fleet went and destroyed Carthage, ending its threat.)
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\nComment 1: Since Sep 11 no focus to cut the SOURCE of terrorism: Salafi funding of terror & intolerance in schools (Qatari & Saudi money); ISIS oil.
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\nComment 2: Someone who went to school on Sept 11 in Saudi Arabia, now age 18 is brainwashed by the system to believe that all Shiites, Christians, and other minorities are deviant beings whose death doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/665645361084686337<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/665538791512256512<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/665165986824380416<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/665155035018436608<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/665118073700098048<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/664929995689717760<\/p>\n

The Saudi king is shocked that his own Wahabi intolerance \u2026kills people. Murderer! https:\/\/t.co\/aahF4pKI2M<\/p>\n

\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) November 14, 2015
\n14 y after Sept 11, teenagers in Saudi Arabia are schooled to believe Shiites, Christians, & others are deviants whose death doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) November 14, 2015
\nNever take an advice from a salesperson https:\/\/t.co\/YZrZfFHMgx<\/p>\n

\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) November 13, 2015
\nI don’t know if the association is justified, but it takes greed to cancel the effect of corporate bullying. pic.twitter.com\/XH7EVqzgQG<\/p>\n

\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) November 13, 2015
\nSuperstitions can be rational if 1) harmless, 2) lower your anxiety, 3) prevent you from listening to forecasts by economists & BS “experts”<\/p>\n

\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) November 13, 2015
\nSkin in the game rule: after every tragic event in Beirut, never talk about it without visiting. Was there last week, going back in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) November 12, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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