Dheeba’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

There was something so extraordinary about 1979, with its cascade of events from the ayatollah in Tehran to the fake messiah in Mecca, from massacres in Aleppo to executions in Islamabad., that to some it felt as if the sky were falling to earth.

Piety had become exhibitionism, a competition

A futureless past is a state of inertia and stagnation while a past less future is alien and vacuous.

This is the juice of a sick mind.

Palestinians felt they were being made to atone for Europe’s sun of the Holocaust by sacrificing their own home land.

I have words harsher than bullets…