Leea S.’s Reviews > Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East > Status Update

They “didn’t see it happening at first. Without their say, their city became a Petri dish for ideological experiments that would one day produce an explosion of hatred on the other side of the world. But they were its first victims.”

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“[T]hey were blinded to the consequences of their creation because they could not recognize the intolerance of their own ideology.”