Peter Naffsinger wrote that Arab trainees commonly dismissed blame with the phrase "min allah" ("It is from God") and responded to warnings against future misconduct with "inshallah" ("If God wills it").
Sources
- (W)Archives: CIA and the “Arab Mind” - War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com)
- https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Face-Among-the-Arabs.pdf (cia.gov)
- https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/57747/2/Article%20for%20intelligence%20and%20National%20Security.pdf (centaur.reading.ac.uk)
- https://www.andrewbostom.org/2017/07/echoing-clarke-from-1871-a-1964-cia-report-described-islams-all-is-from-allah-fatalism-and-its-anti-christian-amoral-consequences/ (andrewbostom.org)
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